The Wealth Files - 179
Wealth File #17
Rich people constantly learn and grow.
Poor people think they already know.
At the beginning of my live seminars, I
introduce people to
what I call “the three most dangerous words in the English
language.” Those words are “I know that.” So how do you
know if you know something? Simple. If you
live it, you know
it. Otherwise, you
heard about it, you read about it, or you talk
about it, but you don’t know it. Put bluntly, if you’re not really
rich
and really happy, there’s a good chance you still have
some things to learn about money, success, and life.
As I explained at the beginning of this book, during my
“broke” days, I was fortunate to
get some advice from a mul-
timillionaire friend who had some compassion for my plight.
Remember what he said to me: “Harv, if you’re not as suc-
cessful as you’d like to be, there’s something you don’t know.”
Fortunately, I took his suggestion to heart and went from
being a “know-it-all” to a “learn-it-all.” From
that moment on,
everything changed.
Poor people are often trying to prove that they’re right.
They put on a mask as if they’ve got it all figured out, and it’s
just some stroke of bad luck or a temporary glitch in the
universe that has them broke or struggling.
One of my more famous lines is “You can be right
or you
can be rich, but you can’t be both.” Being “right” means hav-
ing to hold on to your old ways of thinking and being. Un-
fortunately, these are the ways that got you exactly where you
are now. This philosophy also
pertains to happiness, in that
“you can be right
or you can be happy.”
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