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How to strengthen your willpower
How to overcome temptation and distractions
The role of motivation in willpower
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"If you have not acquired more than a bare existence in the years since we were youths, it is because you either have failed to learn the laws that govern the building of wealth, or else you do not observe them."
I decided that if I was to achieve what I desired, time and study would be required.
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A fat purse quickly empties if there be no golden stream to refill it.
I wish an income that will keep flowing into my purse whether I sit upon the wall or travel to far lands.
"It costs nothing to ask wise advice from a good friend and Arkad was always that. Never mind though our pur...
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THE SIMPLE RULES OF ITS ACQUISITION
Use the financial principles made clear below. Let them guide you away from the stringency of a lean purse to that fuller, happier life a full purse makes possible.
Like the law of gravity, these laws of money are universal and unchanging.
1. Start thy purse to fattening
2. C...
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Our prosperity as a nation depends upon the personal financial prosperity of each of us as individuals.
GEORGE CLASON
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"As for time, all men have it in abundance. You, each of you, have let slip by sufficient time to have made yourselves wealthy. Yet, you admit, you have nothing to show except your good families, of which you can be justly proud."
"As for study, did not our wise teacher teach us that learn...
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