Marc Fisher - How to Think Like a Millionaire

How to Think Like a

MILLIONAIRE

How to Think Like a

MILLIONAIRE

MARK FISHER

WITH MARC ALLEN

Second Edition

N EW W ORLD L IBRARY
N OVATO , C ALIFORNIA

Copyright 1997 by Mark Fisher and Guy Perron

All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced in whole or in part, or transmitted in any form, or by any means electronic, mechanical, recording, or other without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review.

Type design by Tona Pearce Myers

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request.

First printing of second edition, August 2008
ISBN 978-1-57731-643-5
Printed in Canada on 100% postconsumer-waste recycled paper

New World Library is a proud member of the Green Press Initiative.

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T his is a book about success cowritten by two people who have been there and are writing from their personal experience. They have taken on the challenge of summarizing as clearly and briefly as possible everything they have learned and put into practice that has contributed to their success. The results are powerful but then, two remarkable people contributed to this book:

Mark Fisher, in his book The Instant Millionaire, gave us a fable-like telling of his lifes story, featuring his mentor, who taught him the principles and practices necessary to becoming a financial success.

Marc Allen is the author of Visionary Business: An Entrepreneurs Guide to Success, a leading-edge guide for anyone in any type of business. This book is excellent for initiating change in an existing corporate culture or in setting an exciting, successful course for a new business.

The two of them together encourage all of us and better yet, show all of us how to create our own unique form of success, however we define it: whatever we dream of, whatever we wish to create in our lives.

How to Think Like a Millionaire teaches in a clear, understandable, simple way with practical, workable procedures based on Universal Law how to open the door to a revitalizing, life-changing way of thinking. There are nuggets of pure gold in its pages, crystal-clear recipes for success.

How to Think Like a Millionaire is not a book to be hurriedly or superficially read. It must be absorbed deeply to receive the wisdom it contains. I urge you, after reading it once or twice, to give it slow, deep, and deliberate consideration and to apply the recommended action steps at the end of each chapter in a way that fits your own nature and understanding.

I encourage you to read these pages with a mind that is open to all possibilities. Because I know, through personal experience, that if you apply the principles described in this book wisely and intelligently, there can be no uncertainty as to the outcome of any endeavor, and no limit to your success.

Becky Benenate
former editorial director
New World Library

O ver the years, enthusiastic readers from all over the world have written me many wonderful letters. Most of them ask me about The Instant Millionaires formula to become rich and happy.

Ive tried my best to answer their questions, but I have not been able to answer all the letters in as much detail and as thoughtfully as I would like. I often thought about this problem and even meditated on it as I contemplated the heart of a Queen Elizabeth rose my favorite! that grows in my garden....

One day, a solution came to me: I would write one long letter that would attempt to answer all the questions I had been asked. The letter grew and grew, as I kept adding to it over a period of nearly three years. It got so long that it was too lengthy to easily duplicate and I realized I had a book-length manuscript on my hands.

I sent it to my publisher and friend Marc Allen, who had just written a very impressive and inspiring book, Visionary Business: An Entrepreneurs Guide to Success. Marc was so enthusiastic about all my notes that he wanted not only to publish them, but to add a lot of his ideas as well. We collaborated for several months, through several drafts, and he added so much that I felt he deserved credit as a coauthor. And Becky Benenate, former editorial director of New World Library, added quite a bit as well, as a highly supportive and capable editor.

The result was exciting: Two self-made millionaires from very different backgrounds writing back and forth, attempting to summarize every valuable piece of advice we have ever received, and everything we have put into practice, into a single, concise work.

It has certainly evolved far beyond my initial idea! With every addition, every rewrite, it grew stronger and stronger, until it was something I feel honored and proud to have published. I hope you will find it a powerful and practical tool to help you truly succeed in any and every way you choose to define success.

One can never consent to creep
when one feels an impulse to soar.

HELEN KELLER

S uccess is an attitude. Success is a habit. Success is easily available to all who want it, believe they can have it, and put their desires into action.

Success has no secrets. Many who achieve it readily tell their stories of devoting years to their work, to their passion and dreams, before they finally became successful. The main theme is always the same; in every case: They love their work. They would have done it anyway. Great fortunes or at least some level of financial stability and success were often part of the dream, but the wealth was a by-product of following their passion. Could you imagine Steven Spielberg making a million dollars a day if he hated movies and funny-looking extraterrestrials? What if Henry Ford hadnt been fascinated with machinery? If Donna Karan hated clothes? When we do what we love, offering our gifts and talents, without causing harm to anyone, we are working at the highest level of service for ourselves, those around us, and our planet.