<ul><li>The first step in your plan of thinking yourself to success, must be to vaccinate yourself against excusitis, the disease of the failures.</li><li>The thinking that guides your intelligence is much more important than how much intelligence you may have.”</li><li>Never underestimate your own intelligence, and never overestimate the intelligence of others.</li><li>Action cures fear.</li><li>Indecision, postponement, and doubt increase fear.</li></ul>

The Disease Of Failures: Excusitis

<ul><li>You must form an image now of who you want to be in ten years.</li><li>Visualize your future in terms of work, home, and social. Where do you want it to be?</li><li>The quickest way to the end is to retire and do nothing. Every human being must keep an interest in life just to keep living.</li></ul>

Big Goals

How to harness and develop your ideas:<ul><li>Write down your ideas as soon as you can.</li><li>Review these ideas you’re writing down</li><li>Cultivate and fertilize your ideas, combine them, nurture them, grow them, expand them.</li></ul>

Developing Ideas

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<li>Most people go through life with small ambitions, small goals, thinking small, and they only rise to the size of their dreams.</li>
<li>All of us, more than we recognize, are products of the thinking around us. And much of this thinking is little, not big.</li>
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By thinking big, what’s now called “10x” thinking, you can do great, huge things, so long as you believe in yourself and follow through on the pursuit of those huge goals.

Thinking Big

<ul><li>Remember names.</li><li>Stay comfortable and easy to be around.</li><li>Stay calm, don’t be easily ruffled.</li><li>Don’t be egotistical.</li><li>Be interesting so that people may benefit from talking to you.</li><li>Study to get the “scratchy” elements out of your personality, and find out what they are.</li><li>Heal every misunderstanding that you have.</li><li>Practice liking people.</li><li>Never miss an opportunity to offer congratulations or other praise.</li><li>Give spiritual strength to people.</li></ul>

Increasing your Likeability

Those who believe they can move mountains, do. Those who believe they can’t, cannot. Belief triggers the power to do, or not to do something. No one will believe in you until you believe in yourself<ul><li>Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief.</li><li>Think little goals and expect little achievements.</li><li>Think big goals and win big success.</li><li>Big ideas and big plans are often easier— certainly no more difficult— than small ideas and small plans.</li><li>Life is too short to be little.</li></ul>

The Power Of Belief

<ul><li>Prolonged association with negative people makes us think negatively; close contact with petty individuals develops petty habits in us.</li><li>Companionship with people with big ideas raises the level of our thinking; close contact with ambitious people gives us ambition.</li><li>Everyone wants to feel important, help them with that.</li><li>Always give people more than they expect to get.</li></ul>

The Company We Keep

<ul><li>Be a front seater.</li><li>Make eye contact.</li><li>Walk with confidence.</li><li>Speak up.</li><li>Smile big.</li><li>Look at things not as they are, but as they can be.</li><li>Visualization adds value to everything.</li><li>A big thinker always visualizes what can be done in the future. He isn’t stuck with the present.</li><li>Practice uplifting self-praise.</li><li>Don’t practice belittling self-punishment.</li><li>You are what you think you are.</li><li>Think more of yourself and there is more of you.</li></ul>

Making Yourself Big

The timeless and practical advice in The Magic of Thinking Big clearly demonstrates how you can: Sell more Manage better Lead fearlessly Earn more Enjoy a happier, more fulfilling life With applicable and easy-to-implement insights, you’ll discover: Why believing you can succeed is essential How to quit making excuses The means to overcoming fear and finding confidence How to develop and use creative thinking and dreaming Why making (and getting) the most of your attitudes is critical How to think right towards others The best ways to make “action” a habit How to find victory in defeat Goals for growth, and How to think like a leader "Believe Big,” says Schwartz. “The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -- certainly no more difficult - than small ideas and small plans."

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The timeless and practical advice in The Magic of Thinking Big clearly demonstrates how you can: <ul><li>Sell more</li><li>Manage better</li><li>Lead fearlessly</li><li>Earn more</li><li>Enjoy a happier, more fulfilling life </li><li>With applicable and easy-to-implement insights, you’ll discover:</li><li>Why believing you can succeed is essential</li><li>How to quit making excuses</li><li>The means to overcoming fear and finding confidence</li><li>How to develop and use creative thinking and dreaming</li><li>Why making (and getting) the most of your attitudes is critical</li><li>How to think right towards others</li><li>The best ways to make “action” a habit</li><li>How to find victory in defeat</li><li>Goals for growth, and</li><li>How to think like a leader</li></ul>  "Believe Big,” says Schwartz. “The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -- certainly no more difficult - than small ideas and small plans."

David Joseph Schwartz PhD (March 23, 1927 – December 6, 1987) was an American motivational writer and coach, best known for authoring The Magic of Thinking Big in 1959.He was a professor at Georgia State University and also began his own work as a self-help coach and life strategist. Later, he founded his own consultancy firm focusing on leadership development called 'Creative Educational Services Inc'.He became well known through his motivational publications and self-help books, especially for The Magic of Thinking Big, published in 1959.