There has been much written, and said, about why and how people succeed. The contention being that, in order to succeed, you must learn, and then apply, the principles and techniques used by others who have gained success.
But, knowing the principles and techniques used by others who have gained success doesn’t qualify a person to succeed. If it did, all of those who have read and studied the various, and many, books, booklets, plans, and programs on the subject of SUCCESS would, by virtue of their knowledge thereof, be successful.
Statistically, 98% of the people in this country never reach a level of anything more than sustained mediocrity; only 2% ever really achieve success. – WHY?
The answer is simple. – They have never “qualified” for success, because they refuse to “pay their dues.”
These people (the 98%) are so wrapped-up in “protecting” and “maintaining” the level of mediocrity they have achieved that they will not risk one iota of what they have.
It’s like the young boy who, at long last, got his first pair of really fine shoes.
Now, these shoes were exceptionally fine. So fine, in fact, that the boy spent many hours wiping and shining them – while keeping them safe from scuffs, neatly wrapped in paper, in their box under his bed.
A number of opportunities presented themselves for the boy to wear the shoes, but he chose to safe-guard them and wore his older shoes instead. After all, if he wore them, he would run the risk of scuffing them or dulling their glittering shine.
When the day finally arrived, when the occasion was most important, the boy learned, to his disappointment, that his feet had grown and the shoes no longer fit him. (I gave that pair of shoes to a more needy neighbor – and, from that day forward, I have never again been afraid to lose anything.)
Unfortunately, most people are like that boy. – They read all of the books, booklets, plans, and programs about the principles and techniques used by others to gain success. As the boy did with the shoes, they let the opportunities to use what they have learned pass them by – or, they make a half-hearted start, but never continue past their first small and futile attempts.
Why do they hold back? – Because they fear losing what little they have. They “protect” their meager and mediocre position so well that they never lose it.
At retirement age, those people look back with pride at the fact that they have ventured little and lost nothing. But, not unlike the boy and his shoes, they learn, to their disappointment, that that which they protected so well will not sustain them after their retirement and they are forced to seek aid and assistance from their government, family and friends.
Those people have never “qualified” for anything better, because they have never “paid their dues.”
If you haven’t, yet, gained success, look around you. What are you protecting? If you lost it all tomorrow, would you really lose anything of great value?
People fail, not because they cannot succeed, but because they are unwilling to risk what they have. They “protect” their mediocrity until it is all they have left.
The struggle to achieve success is not unlike any great battle in any war. The victorious army is always the one that gives-up the position it has won in order to advance against a better, more advantageous position. Only the losing army stands and defends a mediocre position.
A young Lieutenant once asked a wise General, “Why should we try so hard to reach a position at the top of the hill? As we charge up the hill, our enemies will surely take the positions behind us, and we will lose what we have gained; even if we take the hill.”
The General, a very wise man, replied, “Yes – but, it is much easier to charge down-hill. When we have taken the higher position, we will charge back down the hill and recover all that we have lost. Then, we will charge down the other side of the hill.”
The people who make up the 2% that achieve success are forever charging up the hill – losing all behind them – and then charging back down the hill, on both sides, to regain anything they may have lost and achieve even more success.
Not unlike the losing army, most people will never succeed, because it would mean that they would have to give-up the mediocre position they have protected for so long.
In order to succeed, you must first “lose” your mediocrity. – Success doesn’t happen any other way.
Keep well,
J.F. (Jim) STRAW
You CAN Be A Millionaire In One-Year Or Less!
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Here’s a video from J.F. (Jim) Straw.
Those of you who have been reading my blog for some time will know who he is from our interviews and will also know he has amassed a personal fortune of $400 million over the past 50 years.
Jim knows what he’s talking about and he’s one guy I follow closely.
You’d be wise to do the same.
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People often ask me …
“How can I get rich?”
Well … let me tell you how I did it.
- I learned very early in life that the ONLY way to make money was to “sell” something … either a product or a service … something people wanted or needed – or – do something for them they couldn’t, or wouldn’t, do for themselves.
- I learned to “make do” with what I had, until I could get what I needed to do a better job.
- I learned that I had to do anything necessary (but legal) to get to where I wanted to be, even if I didn’t like doing it (especially if I didn’t like doing it). — You can do ANYTHING you need to do … until you can do what you want to do.
- I learned to never ask anyone to do anything for me that I wasn’t willing to do myself – and – everyone who has ever worked with me has taught me about what they have done for me and how they did it. After a while, I could do it, too – but – maybe not as well as they did.
- I learned to “pay” for what I wanted. If I couldn’t afford it, I saved-up to be able to afford it. (Sometimes if seemed like forever.)
- I learned that no matter how long it took to achieve my goal (whatever it was), it would have been just as long if I hadn’t persisted, but I would have accomplished nothing.
- I learned that NOTHING is as easy or as fast as it should be. It only gets easier and faster when you know how to really do it – and – learning how to really do it is just a matter of doing it over, and over, and over, until you finally find out how it works. Of course, if you give up after the first (second, third, or fourth) try, you’ll never do it.
- I learned most of what I know from my mistakes and failures. My successes never taught me anything … they were only based upon what I had learned from my mistakes and failures. (That’s why those who are afraid to make mistakes, or fail, never achieve the success theydesire.)
- I learned that my most prized possessions were my customers. People who, directly or indirectly, paid for my lunch every day. (That’s why, unlike my contemporaries, I reply to my customers emails personally.)
- I learned that “money” is NOT an end unto itself … it is only a way of keeping score. (The saddest people in the world are those who are forever chasing the almighty dollar – and – the vast majority of them have no real respect for money.)
- I learned to ASK for what I wanted or needed – and – to graciously accept a “NO” as readily as a “YES.”
YES … you can get rich – but – you’ll have to do it yourself.
No one will do it for you!
I get tickled by people who want to start at the top of the ladder. — For some unknown reason, they honestly believe they are better than I am, since I had to start on the bottom rung and climb up one rung at a time.
When I mention the above, I often hear … “Yeah. I could do that – but – it will take too much time. I need money now – and – I don’t want to just make a little money, I want to get rich.”
Sorry, you’ll have to start where I started. — Do what you need to do to make a little money. Then, do more and more of it to make more and more money. As you make more and more money, the greater the opportunities you will have to make even more money. — Nothing succeeds like success … even small success.
The more things you don’t want to do, the fewer and fewer things you will do … until you are doing as most people do … NOTHING but dreaming!
I can teach you “how” to do it but, you won’t get it, until you actually start doing it yourself.
Jim
P.S. — Let me teach you how … “You Can Be A Millionaire In One-Year Or less!”
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Who is J.F. (Jim) Straw?
Confessions of A Self Made Direct Marketing Multi-Millionaire. The Jim Straw Interview – Part 1
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Rezbi: You recently told me you knew Maxwell Sackheim. Care to elaborate on that a little, maybe tell us a little more about him? I’m pretty certain there’s a few people out there would like to know more about him.
Jim Straw: I really can’t tell you much more about Max than what you may have read.
Back in the mid-1970s, I got a telephone call from a man complimenting one of my promotions. He introduced himself as Max Sackheim … I didn’t know whether I wanted to believe him or not. After all, why would the greatest master of the craft be impressed by anything I had written.
After complimenting my promotion, Max proceeded to give me 2 or 3 ideas to improve it. — Since I ALWAYS test new ideas, I tested the ideas and saw an exceptional increase in response.
Max asked to be put on my mailing list.
Over the next few years, Max telephoned me frequently with ideas on other of my promotions and even told me when I was dead wrong … he was always right. We talked on the telephone on numerous occasions.
The last couple times I called him, in the late-1970s, I was told he was in poor health and couldn’t be reached.
May he rest in eternal peace.
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Rezbi: I think that’s the kind of person most business minded people, at least, would want as a friend.
Would you be willing to divulge which of your promotions he commented on and in what recommendations he made?
Obviously, I realise there’s would be a lot to say on that, so just something to give us an idea?
Jim Straw: I would – but – I wracked my itty-bitty brain cells and can’t remember which promotion it was.
Rezbi: That’s a shame as I would have liked to have known that bit of information personally.
Moving on back to you: I know I’ve asked how you started in business, but how and when did you get into the info publishing business?
Jim Straw: Well, in the early 1970s, I owned and operated a number of retail shops selling Women’s Wigs and was a wholesale-supplier of Wigs to Beauty Salons, nationwide. – If you were in that business back then, you may remember Jim Diamond Wigs, Ballerina Wigs, Discount Wig Centers, or Peek-A-Boo Wig Shops.
Since I advertised pretty heavily in some of the trade publications in the beauty supply, cosmetology and beauty salon industry, an editor of one of those publications asked me if I would write an article for them about “Retail Merchandising of Women’s Wigs.” – I did and the article appeared in their next issue.
Shortly after the article appeared, I had a telephone call from the president of a nationwide chain of wig shops. He “loved” the article and was impressed that it wasn’t just another “hype piece”
rehashing the same old rhetoric about retail selling. It was real,
down-to-
earth information that really told the reader how-to-do-it. – All he wanted to know was “who” had written the article for me.
When I told him that I had written it, he asked me if I would write articles about selling, styling and wearing Wigs for him. – If I would write them, and let him put their company name on them, he would pay me $1,500 for each article I wrote.
All in all, I wrote a total of eleven articles for him…pocketing $16,500 for my efforts.
That started me thinking – “If people in the Wig business were willing to pay for how-to-do-it articles, maybe people in other industries would be willing to pay for articles. After all, I had been in so many different businesses, I could write how-to-really-do-it articles in a wide variety of industries and fields of endeavor.”
For a couple of months, I pounded my head against a brick wall … as most “writers” do … trying to sell my articles to publications in a variety of industries. – To those publications, I was just another “writer” standing in line. They had so many “writers” sending them articles for publication, I was lost in the crowd. – My first encounter with writing how-to articles “for pay” had been a fluke.
Okay! – Who would buy my articles?
Why not sell my articles directly to the people who could use that information … people who were trying to learn how-to-really-do-it.
After all, I had been buying and reading “how-to” books, booklets and reports for almost 20 years by then. Usually buying the book or report, trying to do it the way the “writer” said to do it, then devising methods that really worked. So…
The first thing I did was to write 20 short how-to reports … each one was written from my own personal experiences. But, since each report was only about two pages long, I put them all together in a saddle-stitched booklet … to sell for $10 (the going-price, back then).
My ad-copy really wasn’t very good, so the book didn’t sell very well – but – I started studying the “art” of mailorder. Then, one of the people who had bought my booklet … a real mailorder professional … telephoned me. He was impressed with the reports and suggested that I quit selling the book, create 20 separate reports and either sell them, individually for $1 each, or sell them as a monthly series (a newsletter).
Following his advice, I created the “Business Intelligence Network
- Monthly Memo” selling for $10 per year … one report per month. And, I sold my subscribers back-issues; by title, for $1 each. (Over the years, I sold hundreds of thousands of those $1 how-to reports.)
But, my ad-copy still wasn’t very good, so I didn’t get very many subscribers in the beginning. Then, I came up with a one-page sales letter that pulled 230 paid subscriptions for every 1,000 letters I mailed ($2,300 for every $100 spent on mailings). – Of course, that was back when there weren’t 15,000 newsletters on the market; all selling just about the same information, so even that dynamite sales letter was amateuristic by today’s standards. The only thing that kept the dollars rolling-in was the fact that the information in each report was well worth far more than I was charging for it … as a matter of fact, according to my readers, some of those two page reports were far better than 200-page books on the same subject.
Publishing that first monthly-memo service (newsletter), taught me more about building a Mailorder Info-publishing Business than I could have learned getting a Masters degree in advertising and marketing at an ivy-league university.
Rezbi: For someone who’s already ‘made’ it offline, would you say the internet has made a dramatic effect on your business and, if so, what has been the most significant difference to your business as a result of it?
Jim Straw: When I started the Business Lyceum website back in 1999, it was in response to my paper & ink readers who wanted to know where they could find my info-products on-line. — The site was profitable by January, 2000.
At first, all of my info-products were hardcopy and were shipped by mail. Later, I had the books and reports converted to PDF files and about 70% of the buyers wanted the electronic version.
Within 3 years, over 80% of my orders were for the electronic versions. My direct sales dropped to near nothing – but – of course, that was caused by my not doing very many direct mailings.
At that time, I decided to discontinue my direct-mail solicitations, quit selling hardcopies, let my employees go, and closed the office … reverting to a one-man operation using the Internet only.
In the early 2000s direct mailers were either folding their tents or going to the Internet.
Today, direct mail is back with a passion. Most; if not all, of the ne’er-do-wells and con-men are gone. People are getting less and less direct mail making it a wide-open market for those who aggressively pursue the market.
If I were younger and still an aggressive entrepreneur, I would be back into direct mail full force. At my age, a one-man operation on the Internet allows me to keep busy and still produce and enjoy an exceptional income.
Rezbi: What you’re saying is, rather than killing the direct mail
industry, the internet has ultimately been a blessing for the genuine hardcore direct mail marketer?
Jim Straw: The Internet killed-off most; if not all, of the mailorder hypsters, ne’er -do-wells, and amateurs … thankfully. But, a lot of legitimate mailorder marketers suffered through the move to the Internet.
Ultimately, it was a blessing because people are getting less ‘junk’
mail and actually have time to read and respond to the legitimate offers.
As always, the business pendulum swings.
Rezbi: I think you may have given hope to those people out there who may have been considering direct mail but were hesitant. I’m certainly one them. Is there a direct mail ‘course’ out there you would recommend in a heart beat, which is also affordable for the majority?
Jim Straw: I’ve read them all – but – I truly believe my course is the best; after all, I’ve been doing it for nearly 40 years. — As a matter of fact …
After Dan Kennedy read my mailorder course, he told the readers of his “No B.S. Marketing Letter” …
“If you’re interested in selling products via mailorder, one of the ‘quiet giants,’ a fellow I’ve watched and learned from since I was in short pants, Jim Straw has finally put his experiences, personal secrets, tricks of the trade and how-to-advice together in a big manual: “Own Your Own Mailorder Business.” He’s selling it for $49.95 and it’s easily worth ten times that much. Jim’s one of the few ‘masters’ in the leagues of the late Joe Karbo, George Haylings, Dean DuVall, Ben Suarez, who, if you had a chance to pick their brains for an hour, you ought to pay any price, fly anywhere.”
Dan sold over 100 copies of my mailorder course to his “Insiders.”
You’ll find it at:
http://directanddigitalmarketing.com/OwnYourOwnMailorderBusiness
Rezbi: That’s great. I’m definitely getting it now. Actually I would have got it earlier if it wasn’t for my doubts about the market.
Would you say it’s inexpensive to get into direct mail?
Jim Straw: Yes … you can actually start with just a couple hundred dollars. Of course, the more money you start with, the faster you can grow – but – by just starting small and putting your earnings back into the business works better than having more money to be wasted on methods that don’t work.
Rezbi: Thank you for that – I think it’s a sensible piece of advice. Finally, for this part of the interview, is there any single piece of advice you can give based on what you’ve said here… Or just any piece of nugget as a temporary parting gift to our readers out there?
Jim Straw: There is ONLY one thing that separates the successful marketer from the ne’er-do-wells and amateurs. — That one thing is to test, Test, TEST … then, Test some more.
That’s why I always test new ideas … no matter how silly they may sound.
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Jim Straw has been in business since before most of us were born.
He’s the guy Dan Kennedy called, “… one of the ‘quiet giants,’ a fellow I’ve watched and learned from since I was in short pants …”
Rather than give a long drawn-out introduction, I’m going to let my guest tell you about himself and why you should listen to what he has to say, so we’ll get straight to it.
Rezbi: Let’s begin by having you tell us a little bit about your background, your family life, childhood, growing up.
Jim Straw: As the eldest son of a farmer/aircraft worker, born in Oklahoma and reared on farms in Oklahoma, Missouri, and Kansas, I began my long, successful career in business at the age of nine; when I sold my first cans of Cloverleaf Salve and copies of “GRIT” newspaper. Even at that early age, I had the unique talent of recognizing an opportunity, implementing a plan, and making a profit.
My career has progressed through direct selling, service contracting, wholesale merchandising, entertainment (he was a professional Trumpet player, vocalist & Radio Announcer), freight forwarding, import/export, retail merchandising, warehousing, real estate, electronics manufacturing, finder’s fees, closeout merchandising, financial brokerage, business consulting, steel fabrication, gold & coal mining, offshore banking, mailorder, writing, and publishing.
Over the past 37 years, I have written well over 700 books, booklets, manuals, reports, courses and articles about doing business — all based on my own personal, hands-on experience. My writings are “specific” methods, techniques and approaches to doing business that anyone can use to start or expand their business.
As a mailorder marketer…with over 700,000 customers worldwide … I have sold over four-hundred million dollars ($400,000,000) worth of products and services by mail. Everything from Beauty Supplies to Heavy Equipment … Burglar Alarms to Sleeping Bags … Fishing Lures to Women’s Wigs … Automobiles to Wheelchairs … Investment Opportunities to Seafood … Consulting Services to “How To” Courses.
As a member of “Mensa,” with a lifetime of proven success in marketing, I identify myself as a “Marketing Genius.”
REZBI: Care to elaborate a little on the background of your parents and any siblings?
JIM STRAW: Not much to tell. My parents were middle class working people. Gainfully empolyed all their lives. They instilled in me and my siblings a sound work ethic.
As my Daddy once told me, “There are 3 way to make money. Steal it. Beg for it. Or, work for it. If you steal or beg, I’ll beat the hell out of you.” My only option was to work for it.
I had 2 brothers and 2 sisters … all younger.
Of the 5, I am the only one to venture into business. My Mother often asked my Wife, “When is Jim going go get a job.” — When I told her I had bought a bank, her response was, “Don’t be silly. People don’t own banks.”
REZBI: That’s a very funny story about you father… and sage “advice” as far as I’m concerned. Also, you can’t blame your mother for thinking like that… I mean, how many people DO buy banks? 
Tell me about your background in education. Did you have any formal education/qualifications and, if so, how much?
JIM STRAW: I graduated from High School. Went off to college with a double major; Music and Mathematics.
Quit college my sophomore year when the Dean of Men discovered that I owned and operated a couple businesses off-campus and was making more money than the tenured professors. His advise was for me to “Go do what you are already doing and hire those we graduate.”
REZBI: Gosh. Sounds like the Dean had a wise head on his shoulders. Certainly not constrained by academic bigotry (if that makes sense).
What were those couple of businesses you were operating at the time?
JIM STRAW: I owned a doughnut shop 1 block off-campus and the RevereWare sales territory.
REZBI: From the sounds of things, would it be safe to say you were pretty successful with those?
JIM STRAW: Musta been. The Dean of Men said I was making more that the professors.
REZBI: Would you say you were self-taught in business or were there many influences in your life?
JIM STRAW: Self-taught … spending thousands of hours in the public library – and – listening to old business men who enjoyed talking with a young entrepreneur.
REZBI: Who did you read and converse with? Anyone in particular?
Or, better stated, who would you say influenced you most in print?
JIM STRAW: I didn’t read any particular author. I just read everything and anything I could find about doing business.
Unfortunately, most beginners fail to study the fundamentals of business. They are forever disappointed because business doesn’t work the way they have imagined it, or, worse yet, the way some con-man told them it did.
REZBI: Have to agree with you there — I fell into the same trap myself… more than once… and it cost me literally thousands.
Now, would I be correct in assuming you’ve never been employed by someone else? That you’ve always worked for yourself?
JIM STRAW: In my younger years, I often held “jobs” while looking for opportunities or to support my start-ups.
I’ve worked as a shoe salesman in a shoe store; backup musician (trumpet player); jowl cutter in a meat packing plant; wrangler on a number of ranches; dredger in an oil tank farm; radio announcer/disc jockey; and a wide variety of other sales jobs.
Of course, I’ve always been employed by my thousands of customers.
REZBI: Looks like you’ve had quite a varied working life. A lot like myself.
I suppose that can be good, especially in something like copywriting, which I’ve noticed you’re very good at.
In fact, that would be an understatement.
Would you say your background has made you a better marketer and copywriter?
JIM STRAW: Not really. I just write as if I were talking directly to you.
REZBI: Would you say your writing has improved over the years through experience, or was it always up to that standard?
And, if you feel it has improved, in what way?
JIM STRAW: Of course it has improved. Anything you can do today, you will do better the more you do it.
I have learned to anticipate what my readers may be asking themselves and answer their questions before they ask them.
REZBI: Okay, Jim, let’s get down to the nitty gritty.
With the life and successes you’ve had, there just HAS to be more.
I mean, let’s face it, the average Joe would fill a mountain of books if he put his entire life in print.
You, obviously, are not average.
I mean, how many people in the world just buy banks?
Dan Kennedy, of all people, has called you:
“one of the ‘quiet giants… a fellow I’ve watched and learned from since I was in short pants …”
You don’t get an endorsement like that by having an ordinary life.
Tell us something you’ve never mentioned before, something funny, something amazing… something our readers can really get their teeth into.
I don’t know, maybe the President called you for advice and you blew him off because you were too busy… anything.
JIM STRAW: As I told Dan, “If I had known he was watching in short pants, I would have pointed and giggled.”
Hmmm … something I have never mentioned before? — Well, I am ambidextrous. I do almost everthing as well with my Left hand as I do with my Right hand. — Does that count?
Beyond that, I type over 140 words per minute … with proper (or improper) capitalization and punctuation.
REZBI: Okay, I guess I should have been more clear (didn’t realise you were a funny guy )… I kinda meant something in business. Something our readers might find amazing, amusing and maybe even useful.
Tell us how you went about buying huge businesses, etc., such as a bank.
JIM STRAW: Okay … now I get it.
Back in the early 80s I went to New York City to discuss some business ideas with some other entrepreneurs. — I was early and found myself in a magnificent office building before anyone had arrived in their offices.
Attempting to light a cigarette … it was legal back then … I discovered that my lighter was out of fluid and I had no matches. The only person in the building was the janitor, so I asked him for a light and he obliged. — After lighting my cigarette, the janitor decided to join me in a smoke and we struck up a conversation.
After I told him about some of my business dealings, he made the comment, “What we really need is …… ”
That simple comment made over $16 Million for me over the next 5 years.
One of my success secrets is that I “listen” … no matter who is talking; from Fortune 100 CEO to janitor.
By the way, I have NEVER bought any “huge” or even “big” businesses. I have always bought smaller businesses and made them big – but – don’t ask me which ones. I don’t think the current owners would appreciate it since most of them have taken the “big” business I sold them and made the business “small” again.
REZBI: Now THAT… is a story.
I think, even though most of us know it, the majority don’t listen, hence we miss the opportunities. And for those of us who do listen, we recognise the opportunities but do nothing with because, as someone once said, opportunity is “usually disguised as hard work”.
One thing I realised in consulting was that you pretty much don’t have to do any work at all. Just walk around the shop floor and ask everyone else how they’d improve things.
And, somewhere among those questions and answers, will be the solution to the problem.
And, as you found out, there may be further opportunities.
I’d like to ask you, if I may, about your course “You Can Be A Millionaire In One-Year Or Less!” How did that come about and can you tell us a little more about it than you already have on the site?
JIM STRAW: Over the years, through my writings, I have taught a multitude of business people (many of them became millionaires) how to make money doing the various things I had done – but – there was one big “secret” that I had never shared with anyone because my friend and I had promised each other we simply wouldn’t tell anyone (except our kids and grandkids, of course).
My friend … not totally retired … released me from the promise and I began writing down all of the elements of what we had been doing; including details about how and “why” we did it that way. It took over 2 months to just write it down.
Back in the day, I could have (and did) make tons of money working just 4 or 5 hours each week – but – I have never been able to abide wasted/leisure time so, while I was making tons of money in just a few hours each week, I was wheeling and dealing doing other “real” businesses. — Some of those other businesses lead to me writing about them as well.
Some other businesses happened by accident … like the one I tell about in my Snooper Report — http://www.businesslyceum.com/snooper.html
After I wrote the manuscript for “You Can Be A Millionaire … ” it was my intention to use it to form and train a new “group” of young(er), aggressive entrepreneurs and participate with them in deals worldwide – but – at my age, I simply didn’t need the activity – and – since I don’t do telephones anymore (too hard of hearing), I just couldn’t do it.
By the way, what I teach in my ‘Be A Millionaire’ course works everywhere in the world. You may read testimonials from Spain and England on the sales page … http://www.businesslyceum.com/BeAMillionaire.html
Someone recently asked me, “If it’s so profitable, why not just do it yourself, instead of writing about it?” — Well, I HAVE for over 50 years (even now, I do a couple good deals each year) – but – why do mathematicians write math books? Why do Medical Doctors publish their methods? Why do Plumbers, Electricians, Composer, Architects, and even Hobbyists write handbooks and instruction manuals? — We write down our methods for the younger generations, so they won’t have to learn for themselves how it’s done, as we did, by trial and error.
To be continuted…
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