Secrets of the Millionaire Mind

DECLARATIONS: 
Place your hand on your heart and say . . .
“I focus on opportunities over obstacles.” 
 
“I get ready, I fire, I aim!” 
 
Touch your head and say...
“I have a millionaire mind!” 
 
MILLIONAIRE MIND ACTIONS
1. Get in the game. Consider a situation or project you’ve
wanted to start. Whatever you’ve been waiting for, forget it. 
Begin now from wherever you are with whatever you’ve 
got. If possible, do it while working for or with someone 
else, first, to learn the ropes. If you’ve already learned, no 
more excuses. Go for it!
2. Practice optimism. Today, whatever anyone says is a 
problem or an obstacle, reframe it into an opportunity.
You’ll drive negative people nuts, but, hey, what’s the
difference? That’s what they’re constantly doing to
themselves anyway!
3. Focus on what you have, not on what you don’t have. Make
a list of ten things you are grateful for in your life and read
the list aloud. Then read it each morning for the next thirty
days. If you don’t appreciate what you’ve got, you won’t get
any more and you don’t need any more.

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Wealth File #6
Rich people admire other rich and
successful people. Poor people resent rich
and successful people.
 
Poor people often look at other people’s success with resent-
ment, jealousy, and envy. Or they snip, “They’re so lucky,” or 
whisper under their breath, “Those rich jerks.”
You have to realize that if you view rich people as bad in any 
way, shape, or form, and you want to be a good person, then 
you can never be rich. It’s impossible. How can you be 
something you despise?
It’s amazing to witness the resentment and even outright 
anger that many poor people have toward the rich. As if they 
believe that rich people make them poor. “Yup, that’s right, 
rich people took all the money so there’s none left for me.” Of 
course, this is perfect victim talk.
I want to tell you a story, not to complain, but simply to re-
late a real-world experience I had with this principle. In the old 
days, when I was, let’s say, financially challenged, I used to 
drive a clunker. Changing lanes in traffic was never a problem. 
Almost everybody would let me in. But when I got rich and 
bought a gorgeous, new, black Jaguar, I couldn’t help but 
notice how things changed. All of a sudden I started getting 
cut off and sometimes given the finger for added measure. I 
even got things thrown at me, all for one reason: I drove a Jag.
One day, I was driving through a lower-end neighborhood 
in San Diego, delivering turkeys for a charity at Christmastime. 
I had the sunroof open and I noticed four grimy guys perched 
in the back of a pickup truck behind me. Out of nowhere, they 
started playing basketball with 

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my car, by attempting to shoot beer cans into my open sun-
roof. Five dents and several deep scratches later, they passed 
me screaming, “You rich bastard!”
Of course, I figured this to be an isolated incident, until just 
two weeks later, in a different lower-end neighborhood, I 
parked my car on the street and returned to it less than ten 
minutes later, to discover that the entire side of my car had 
been keyed.
The next time I went to that area of town, I rented a Ford 
Escort, and amazingly, I didn’t have a single problem. I’m not 
implying that poorer neighborhoods have bad people, but in 
my experience, they sure seem to have plenty of folks who 
resent the rich. Who knows, maybe it’s some kind of chicken-
and-egg thing: Is it because they’re broke that they resent the 
rich, or because they resent rich people that they’re broke. As 
far as I’m concerned, who cares? It’s all the same, they’re still 
poor!
It’s easy to talk about not resenting the rich, but depending 
on your mood, falling into the trap can happen to anyone, 
even me. Recently, I was eating dinner in my hotel room, 
about an hour before going onstage to teach an evening 
session of the Millionaire Mind seminar. I turned on the tube 
to check the sports scores and found that Oprah was on. 
Although I’m not a big fan of television, I love Oprah. That 
woman has affected more people in a positive way than almost 
anyone else on the planet, and consequently she deserves every 
penny she’s got... and more!
Meanwhile, she’s interviewing actress Halle Berry. They’re 
discussing how Halle has just received one of the largest film 
contracts in history for a female actor—$20 million. Halle then 
says that she doesn’t care about the money, and that she 
fought for this humongous contract to blaze a trail for other 

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women to follow. I heard myself say skeptically, “Yeah, right! 
Do you think I and everyone else watching this show is an 
idiot? You should take a hunk of that dough and give your 
public relations agent a raise. That’s the best sound-bite 
writing I’ve ever heard.”
I felt the negativity welling up inside me, and just in the nick 
of time I caught myself, before the energy took me over. 
“Cancel, cancel, thank you for sharing,” I yelled out loud to 
my mind, to drown out that voice of resentment.
I couldn’t believe it. Here I was, Mr. Millionaire Mind 
himself, actually resenting Halle Berry for the money she 
made. I quickly turned it around and began screaming at the 
top of my lungs, “Way to go, girl! You rock! You let ’em off 
too cheap, you should’ve got thirty million dollars! Good for 
you. You’re incredible and you deserve it.” I felt a lot better.
Regardless of her reason for wanting all that money, the 
problem wasn’t her, it was me. Remember, my opinions make 
no difference to Halle’s happiness or wealth, but they do make 
a difference to my happiness and wealth. Also remember that 
thoughts and opinions aren’t good or bad, right or wrong, as 
they enter your mind, but they can sure be empowering or 
disempowering to your happiness and success, as they enter 
your life.
The moment I felt that negative energy run through me, my 
“observation” alarms went off, and as I’ve trained myself to 
do, I immediately neutralized the negativity in my mind. You 
don’t have to be perfect to get rich, but you do need to 
recognize when your thinking isn’t empowering to yourself or 
others, then quickly refocus on more supportive thoughts. The 
more you study this book, the faster and easier this process 
will be, and if you attend the Millionaire Mind Intensive 
Seminar, you will dramatically accelerate 

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your progress. I know I keep mentioning the Millionaire Mind 
course, but please understand, I wouldn’t be so adamant about 
this program if I didn’t see for myself the phenomenal results 
people get in their lives.
In their outstanding book The One Minute Millionaire, my 
good friends Mark Victor Hansen and Robert Allen quote the 
poignant story of Russell H. Conwell in his book, Acres of