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norma_cenva's review against another edition
5.0
A great compilation of useful info. This series just keeps me interested. This instalment specifically is great for uplifting your spirits and even doing some research.
estherjoybelle's review against another edition
4.0
This book was the perfect introduction to the success genre for me. I would never have picked up the books summarised in here, would never have even thought they could be useful to me, without reading this. There are maybe only a half dozen that I will go out of my way to read now, but even so, I've taken pages and pages of notes on the insights I found in the summaries, so it's been a book of tremendous value to me. I thought about abandoning the book halfway through, only because it was a hard slog at times to force myself to read something fairly academic, but I'm so glad I persisted as I made lots more notes on important points. Not every chapter had value for me, but many, many of them did.
denouements's review against another edition
3.0
Good reference book; each synopsis begins with a 1-2 sentence called “In a Nutshell”. Personally, this covers a number of books that I have no intention of ever reading cover-to-cover so, I'm grateful for Butler-Bowdon for capturing these gems of wisdom.
Kenneth Blanchard & Spencer Johnson, One Minute Manager
- Key to training someone to do a new task is to catch them doing something approximately right until they can eventually do it exactly right
- Discipline doesn't work with people who aren't secure in what they're doing, only encouragement does
- Praise gets them going in the right direction
Edward Bok, The Americanization of Edward Bok
- Work for your own success but ensure your achievements lift up the wider community
Claude M Bristol, The Magic of Believing
- We don't achieve deeply felt goals by action alone but are helped along depending on the quality and intensity of our belief that they will be achieved
Roger Lowenstein, Warren Buffett
- Buffet is a risk taker in the sense that he's been willing to bet 25% of Berkshire Hathaway on 1 stock but not a gambler because he only looks for sure-fire things.
- Buffett had always craved and had always felt enriched by continuity. To work with the same people, to own the same stocks, to be in the same businesses; hanging on was a metaphor for his life.
Andrew Carnegie, The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
- Be voracious in your learning and ensure that others benefit from your intellectual and monetary wealth.
-These relationships weren't cultivated so that he could name-drop but so that he could learn directly from their unique knowledge and experience.
-Always seek out interesting people.
Chin-ning Chu, Thick Face and Black Heart
-What you believe about yourself, the world will believe about you
-Wealth comes from selling what's unique about you in terms of a product or just you as a person. Although money itself is a mystery, whatever best expresses your brilliance will inevitably lead you to wealth.
George S Clason, The Richest Man in Babylon
-Wealth, if it didn't actually create happiness, it certainly enhanced the quality of life. It made it possible to furnish a house well, wear good clothing, build temples for the gods, sail the seas, or eat exotic foods from distant lands.
Secrets of the Ages, Robert Collier
-If you have a single powerful purpose, you will have the courage to act on your ideas
When you strongly desire something and believe that you will have it, it sets in motion a mental whirlpool that sucks in the things, people, and circumstances necessary to enable its realization. You develop a momentum that allows you to continue achieving but with less energy.
-The greatest discoveries came from a person that actually noticed something that everyone else had seen
-The biggest fortunes were made out of opportunities that many had but only one person grasped.
-Great souls have wills, feebles ones only have wishes.
-Faith is not spirtual, it's rational. Singularity of purpose can produce a relaxed knowing
Russel H Conwell, Acres of Diamond
-You need to develop an open-mind to spot the obvious.
-You must make yourself necessary to the world
-Make yourself a medium for good
Stephen R Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
-No one ever drifts into meaningful success
-Purpose shapes destiny. Having some idea of where you end up is a valuable exercise.
-You improve the world around you not by forcing solutions on it but by drawing out better outcomes from those involved
Les Giblin, How to Have Confidence and Power in Dealing with People
-Speak through third-persons
to be continued...
Kenneth Blanchard & Spencer Johnson, One Minute Manager
- Key to training someone to do a new task is to catch them doing something approximately right until they can eventually do it exactly right
- Discipline doesn't work with people who aren't secure in what they're doing, only encouragement does
- Praise gets them going in the right direction
Edward Bok, The Americanization of Edward Bok
- Work for your own success but ensure your achievements lift up the wider community
Claude M Bristol, The Magic of Believing
- We don't achieve deeply felt goals by action alone but are helped along depending on the quality and intensity of our belief that they will be achieved
Roger Lowenstein, Warren Buffett
- Buffet is a risk taker in the sense that he's been willing to bet 25% of Berkshire Hathaway on 1 stock but not a gambler because he only looks for sure-fire things.
- Buffett had always craved and had always felt enriched by continuity. To work with the same people, to own the same stocks, to be in the same businesses; hanging on was a metaphor for his life.
Andrew Carnegie, The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
- Be voracious in your learning and ensure that others benefit from your intellectual and monetary wealth.
-These relationships weren't cultivated so that he could name-drop but so that he could learn directly from their unique knowledge and experience.
-Always seek out interesting people.
Chin-ning Chu, Thick Face and Black Heart
-What you believe about yourself, the world will believe about you
-Wealth comes from selling what's unique about you in terms of a product or just you as a person. Although money itself is a mystery, whatever best expresses your brilliance will inevitably lead you to wealth.
George S Clason, The Richest Man in Babylon
-Wealth, if it didn't actually create happiness, it certainly enhanced the quality of life. It made it possible to furnish a house well, wear good clothing, build temples for the gods, sail the seas, or eat exotic foods from distant lands.
Secrets of the Ages, Robert Collier
-If you have a single powerful purpose, you will have the courage to act on your ideas
When you strongly desire something and believe that you will have it, it sets in motion a mental whirlpool that sucks in the things, people, and circumstances necessary to enable its realization. You develop a momentum that allows you to continue achieving but with less energy.
-The greatest discoveries came from a person that actually noticed something that everyone else had seen
-The biggest fortunes were made out of opportunities that many had but only one person grasped.
-Great souls have wills, feebles ones only have wishes.
-Faith is not spirtual, it's rational. Singularity of purpose can produce a relaxed knowing
Russel H Conwell, Acres of Diamond
-You need to develop an open-mind to spot the obvious.
-You must make yourself necessary to the world
-Make yourself a medium for good
Stephen R Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
-No one ever drifts into meaningful success
-Purpose shapes destiny. Having some idea of where you end up is a valuable exercise.
-You improve the world around you not by forcing solutions on it but by drawing out better outcomes from those involved
Les Giblin, How to Have Confidence and Power in Dealing with People
-Speak through third-persons
to be continued...
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