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

GIVE YOURSELF AN EDGE
If you work 45 to 50 hours per week, you give yourself an edge over
your co-workers. If you work 55 to 60 hours per week, your long-
term success is virtually guaranteed.You put yourself on the side of
the angels. Many self-made millionaires work 70 to 80 hours per
week to get established in their careers. There are no shortcuts to
lasting success.
Decide to Become Rich
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I have studied successful men and women in America for more
than 25 years. I have never found a single successful person who got
there working only 40 hours, or five days per week. The idea of the
five-day week, which was promoted by the labor unions as a great
advance in the life of the working person, has been the cause of
more financial underachievement and failure than perhaps any
other single myth.
The fact is that, especially at the beginning of their careers, all
really successful people work much harder than the average person.
They work 10 to 12 hours per day, six days per week. They work at
this rate for many months and years, before they reach the point
where they can slow down. The average self-made millionaire has
taken 22 years to get from being broke to having a net worth of
more than one million dollars. It is not easy and it is not quick. But
it is definitely possible if you want it badly enough.
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