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

TRUE WEALTH TODAY
The richest American today, and perhaps the richest person in the
world, is Bill Gates. The net worth of his company, Microsoft, is
greater than the net worth of IBM, which has been in business
many years longer. Microsoft is based entirely on 
brainpower
. It cre-
ates wealth by making it easier to process information digitally
within computers, and from computer to computer by telephone
lines, wireless systems, and satellites.
If you own a company, your chief assets walk out the door every
night at quitting time. Your building could burn to the ground, but
as long as your people got out safely, you could walk across the
street and start your business again. The chief assets of any organi-
zation, and of any individual, are contained in the ability to think
and to apply that thinking to getting results that other people will
pay for. The ability to create wealth is determined by 
mental
strength rather than 
physical
strength.
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