Famous !@&#-laden “Closers” speech from Glengarry Glen Ross. Definitely skip in mixed company. Apparently those of us in the middle class are better losers than middle-class millionaires. In what authors Russ Alan Prince and Lewis Schiff called the “dark side” of their surveys for The Middle-Class Millionaire, they found those with the higher net worths [...]
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Do You Want What it Takes to be a Millionaire Today: Sharp Elbows
November 12th, 2008 1 Comment
Tags: John McCain · losing · Machiavellian · winning
Do You Want What It Takes to Be a Millionaire Today: Learning From Failure
November 10th, 2008 2 Comments
I’m sure you’ve heard that those who get what they want don’t give up. But do you change what you want if you hit a wall? Middle-class millionaires don’t, according to the book by the same name by Russ Alan Prince and Lewis Schiff. In fact, they have a steel-plated constitution for failure, reporting major [...]
Do You Want What it Takes to Be a Millionaire Today: Seeing Opportunity
November 5th, 2008 No Comments
This may be hard to hear. Middle-class millionaires (according to the book of the same title) do not agree that if you do what you love, the money will follow. More than 73 percent chose a career because of its prospective financial rewards. But that doesn’t mean they’re walking around hating life. They just put [...]
Tags: match skills to opportunity · The Middle-Class Millionaire · think big
