77. Serve and grow rich

One good way to motivate yourself is by increasing the flow of money into your life.

Most people are embarrassed to even think this way. They don’t want to “think and grow rich” because they think they will be thought of as selfish or greedy. Or maybe they still believe in the thoroughly discredited Marxist economic superstition that to make money, you have to take it away from somebody else. Or else they don’t want to come across as being obsessed with money.

But do you know who is really obsessed with money? People who don’t have any. They obsess about money all day long. It’s in their family discussions, it’s on their minds at night, and it becomes a destructive part of their relationships during the day. The best way ...

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