In retrospect, this is the vital lesson I have had gotten out of this classic:

“The idea that “it takes money to make money” is the thinking of financially unsophisticated people. It does not mean that they’re not intelligent. They have simply not learned the science of money making money.

Money is only an idea.

If you want more money, simply change your thinking.

Every self-made person started small with an idea, and then turned it into something big. The same applies to investing. It takes only a few dollars to start and grow it into something big.

I meet so many people who spend their lives chasing the big deal, or trying to amass a lot of money to get into a big deal, but to me that is foolish. Too often I have seen unsophisticated investors put their large nest egg into one deal and lose most of it rapidly. They may have been good workers, but they were not good investors.

Education and wisdom about money are important.

Start early. Buy a book. Go to a seminar. Practice. Start small. I turned $5,000 cash into a one-million-dollar asset producing $5,000 a month cash flow in less than six years. But I started learning as a kid.

I encourage you to learn, because it’s not that hard. In fact, it’s pretty easy once you get the hang of it.

I think I have made my message clear. It’s what is in your head that determines what is in your hands.

Money is only an idea.

There is a great book called Think and Grow Rich. The title is not Work Hard and Grow Rich.

Learn to have money work hard for you, and your life will be easier and happier.

Today, don’t play it safe. Play it smart.”

― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad;

UNDERSTANDING THE POWER OF GOAL STRIVING:

Looking back at my own life, after having traversed the Highway of Life for more than seven decades, I like to say that, I can relate very well to these astute observations of Dr Maxwell Maltz.

Back in the mid seventies, when I was promoted to manager of a division, I was then only 27 years old.

My first investment into personal development was the facilitated 'Dynamics of Goal Setting' program from the Singapore distributor of Success Motivation Institute of Waco, TX, USA.

I remember vividly it was pretty expensive, and I even had to get a finance company loan for one year to pay for it.

The author of the program, Paul J Meyer, gave me the best definition for success:

Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.

Nonetheless, that investment somehow spurred my nascent foray into acquiring more skillsets, toolsets, actionsets and mindsets about developing personal mastery.

Naturally along the way, I bumped into great motivational writings, among which 'PsychoCybernetics' by Dr Maltz, 'Law of Success' and 'Think & Grow Rich', both by Napoleon Hill, were most impactful.

As I progressed along the growth trajectory of my professional career tracking in the corporate world, attendant exposures to strategic visionising or planning, vision building, contingency planning, scenario planning, just to name a few, became part and parcel of my knowledge acquisition and management.

One thing that really stood out, as a common denominator in whatever I have had gained within almost a quarter of a century of my professional life, is the relevant core issue of goal setting and goal achieving, in both corporate/business and personal settings.

In the corporate world, having goals is always expressed as the power of having a positive vision of the future.

Drawing intellectual cues from author-filmmaker-futurist Joel Arthur Barker, having a positive vision of the future is the most forceful motivator for change — for success — that companies, schools, communities, nations, and individuals possess.

To cut to the chase, Dr Maltz was far ahead of his time, and I am glad to be able to have the wonderful opportunity to have read his writings, as well as others.