06.18.08
Build Long Term, Real Wealth
I had a character waving a carrot in front of my lovely face again today, weaving shiny lies about how much money I could make by lowering my standards and joining his phalanx of pitch men and snake oil salesmen. You can’t use a juicy steak, albeit poisoned and rotten, to entice someone whose stomach is already full.
Attend most seminars, and you will find a slick salesman oiling his way around the stage, whipping the naive, desperate, unsuspecting and vulnerable masses into an emotional frenzy before they rush, bleating innocently and incoherently, to the back of the room to buy beautifully packaged, fake dreams that they can’t afford, with money they don’t have, and over which they will weep long tears of resentment and self-recrimination in the cold light of day. You traded your soul for a bowl of soup, and the soup’s cold, and tainted with your greed.
These odious, self-styled gurus are amongst the greatest conmen in the world. They brag about their sales and conquests like child molesters. They wax lyrical about their non-existent integrity as they leave piles of reeking financial destruction in their wake. Long term wealth is built on the solid foundation of integrity, congruency, and good relationships. The rocks of trust and professionalism outlast the cotton candy disguised as sound investments. Real wealth is as real as the people behind it. The womanizers, cheats and posers soon meet their match and go back to selling used cars and weed, or end up in prison, where they belong.
DollarMakers is built on strong relationships. We regularly and diligently weed the garden and discard the trash, the parasites, and the saboteurs, and replace them with honorable men and women. We build long-term strength and bonds that will keep under strong winds and the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. We find reliable, mature individuals whose word is their bond and who understand reciprocity and the law of compensation. We keep the “big picture” in mind. We sow good seed and reap abundantly after patiently nurturing the money plants.
If you want a tall building, take time on the foundation. Learn from the Three Little Pigs.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
“Have you noticed that the imbecile always smiles?” - Ayn Rand (And he hugs people, too…)
