“Learning is the beginning of wealth.  Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process begins.

Formal education will make you a living, but self-education will make you a fortune!” – Jim Rohn

With that being said what I want to do is list a bunch of books that I have been recommend from very successful people, Billionaires, Multi-Millionaires, Millionaires.  These are the books that are always coming up when these very successful people recommend reading books.   Its almost scary how often the same books are recommended.  I have always been interested in the books that people read, to me books are like teachers.  Note this list I have spent 2 years gathers, so without further ado here it is

1.Think And Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

2.Psycho-Cybernetics by Dr. Maxwell Maltz

3.How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

4.Winning Through Intimidation by Robert Ringer

5.Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

6.Influence by Robert Cialdini PhD

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First off this Book is AMAZING!

I am really getting alot out of reading a book a week and I suggest it to everyone if they can find the time.  Anyway Robert Ringer’s book are very practical and I have learned alot from them.

Of all the quote on quote success guru’s Ringer’s writing really meshes.  I don’t know why it just does.  So thanks Dan Kennedy and Jay Abraham for bringing Ringers work to my attention.  I actually Today just ordered his other book million dollar habits.

He starts off the book by saying

“Nothing Happens until something moves” – Albert Einstein

And you know what that makes sense.  There is a saying that an average idea acted upon is better than 1000 great ideas never acted upon.  Lots of people have great ideas most people don’t act on them.  The people that did are the movers and shakers of the world like Richard Branson and Larry Page.

In the later chapters he covered the law of averages and he explained in a way that made sense.  He says that everyone knows of the law of averages but many people do not use it.

Like all the Robert Ringer books it’s just alot of commonsense, but it’s so much commonsense that you never take the time to think about it and that is really what this book does.  Action Produces Results.  Not Meditation or the Secret.

This is a book that I am going to read and reread because it is above all inspiring and motivational.  I don’t want to give away too much but here are some of the quotes from the book

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the one you did.” – Mark Twain

“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness with out action.” – Benjamin Disrali

“Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day.  Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.” – Michael Landon

and Finally

“Action is life – and life is meant to be lived.” – Robert Ringer

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This is part 2 of what I learned from Eben Pagan.  Check Out Pt 1 Here

Money isn’t Real

Money has no intrinsic value meaning that there is nothing backing money. Focusing on Money doesn’t build wealth. We need to focus on Value.  Alot of what Eben teaches is all about creating value which he does through information products.

Moving the Free Line

All of us as humans have justice mechanism.  Meaning that we are constantly worried about things being fair.  We are very worried about getting ripped off.

There was an interesting experiment done with two people.  Person A was given $100 dollars and the choice of how to split the money up.  Person B decided whether or not they got money.  When person A split the money 50/50 person B agreed 100% of the time and both people left the experiment with $50.  However when person A got clever and decided that he would split the money up $80 dollars for himself and $20 for person B.  Person B would say No a certain percentage of the time and neither person would leave the room with any money.  The people who ran this experiment were baffled, logic would say that person B would just take the $20.

That’s not the way it works, as humans we hate to see the other person get the better deal so much that we are willing to forfeit our profit.  Eben says that a lot of us sabotage our own success by doing this.  Eben says that by learning to love getting the short end of the stick you can become very wealthy.  Giving away $1,000 of value and then asking for $100 back.

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I just finised reading Robert Ringer’s book To Be Or Not To Be Intimidated and all I can say is Wow.  I would give it a 9/10.This book was recommended to me by Dan Kennedy and Yanik Silver.  Both have this book in there top 10 book list and these are guys who read alot. The only thing I didn’t like about was that he drags out the stories of his real estate deals.

Anyway this book I thought was packed full of gems and is another book that really gets you thinking.   Here are some quotes from the book

“Theory of Reality, which states: Reality is neither the way you wish things to be nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are. Either you acknowledge reality and use it to your benefit, or it will automatically work against you.”

“Mortality Theory:  Given that your time on earth is limited, it makes good sense to aim high and move fast”

And my favorite. The Leap Frog theory which is something I have seen very success people do.  Truth is everyone is waiting for someone to appoint them to become and expert.

“Leapfrog Theory, which states: No one has an obligation-moral, legal, or otherwise – to “work his way up through the ranks.” Every human being possesses an inalienable right to make a unilateral decision to redirect his career and begin operating on a higher level at any time he believes he is prepared to do so.

Next Book On the Agenda: Action! by Robert Ringer

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