Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement

THE ORIGINS OF WEALTH
Throughout human history, value has been contained in land, la-
bor, capital, furniture, fixtures, machinery, and other 
hard assets
.
Wars and revolutions have been fought over their control. The pri-
mary creators of value were those people who could combine
these various resources together to produce products and services
for the marketplace.
In the twentieth century, however, we have seen change take
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place at a speed that is virtually unimaginable. In 1900, 50 percent
of the American population lived on farms raising food for the other
50 percent who lived in towns and cities. Today, less than 3 percent
of the population lives on farms, and they produce not only enough
food for all Americans, but huge surpluses as well that are exported
or even given away to the entire world.
We have moved from the agricultural age to the industrial age to
the service age to the information age, and we are now entering the
communications
age. The primary source of value today is not land,
labor, and other hard assets, but knowledge, information, and ideas.
The greatest wealth you could possibly possess is between your
ears.You can create an unlimited future for yourself by tapping into
your brainpower and channeling it, like a powerful current, to ener-
gize your life and get you anything you really want.
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