Archive for October, 2008
“Call Your Lawyer If You Want Peace of Mind and Security”
“WHAT? At $400 an hour? $6.66 per minute? You have to be crazy! That will bankrupt me! I would be terrified at what his bill would be. I would rather risk losing money, getting sued, and not knowing my rights. I’ll take my chances, thank you.”
Only if you were paying $400 per hour. I called my lawyer four times yesterday – once about a copyright issue, then about my home alarm contract, then about my rights to add a wall in my garden, then about a business issue in the United Sates, even though I live in Canada. In fact, I can call my lawyer as many times as I like, have him review an unlimited amount of contracts / documents, call him 24/7 if I need to in case I get arrested or in an emergency, and it costs me $36 per month. Oh, and that includes ID theft protection and restoration! I save a fortune, and I sleep well at night.
That’s right – I have joined the wealthy elite who have a lawyer on retainer, except that I have clear access to the best legal firms in every state in the US and four Canadian provinces. You’re twice as likely to land up in court as you are in hospital, and $36 per month is a lot cheaper than medical insurance. And did I mention that I get paid a commission, on an ongoing basis, for everyone that I introduce to this opportunity? Working with a 36-year-old NYSE company that pays ME thousands per month to get this kind of value for $36 per month is the best Joint Venture I ever found.
When I joined, I also got my will and my wife’s will, plus our Living Wills and Power of Attorney, done at no charge. I already had a will that I paid $500 for ten years ago, and this lawyer told me that one clause in that cheap, $500 will would have caused it to be contested, and my estate to be tied up in court for years! Boy, was I glad I had it reviewed and renewed. Justice is available to the average person, but at price so steep as to be almost unaffordable. Now, it is affordable, and in my estimation, it’s a priority right up there with life insurance, medical insurance, car insurance, and home insurance – just much cheaper. $36 per month – that’s 9 lattes – and it covers my entire family.
America is the most litigious nation on earth – with an estimated 50% of the adult population involved in some legal issue at any time, and 7 out of ten adults without a will.
(For more information, contact Anthony and Crystal Obey info@dollarmakersusa.com)
Robin J. Elliott
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I went to the jewelry store to buy my wife a piece of jewelry. The sales clerk showed me the cheapest item in the range to start with. I said I wanted to see the most expensive item, since my wife deserves only the best. When I had purchased the item, I asked the clerk why she offered me the cheapest piece, and she replied that she would rather have a bird in the hand than two in the bush. She didn’t’ understand how to “drop down”, but she also didn’t understand that you get what you ask for, and you will be surprised what you will get, if you just ask for it. Think abundance, not scarcity.
You can go to the beach with a teaspoon and a cup and get some seasand, or you can go with a forty-gallon drum and fill it with sand. Or you can take a dump truck and fil that – the sand won’t run out. You can take a train and fill it with sand. San respesents, in this case, money. You can make as much as you like if you simply offer a great product and service and then go ahead and ASK. Be audacious, be courageous, and expect great wealth.
“I bargained with Life for a penny,
And Life would pay no more,
However I begged at evening
When I counted my scanty store.
For Life is a just employer,
He gives you what you ask,
But once you have set the wages,
Why, you must bear the task.
I worked for a menial’s hire,
Only to learn, dismayed,
That any wage I had asked of Life,
Life would have willingly paid.”
Bamboo grows more rapidly than any other plant on the planet. It has been clocked surging skyward as fast as 47.6 inches in a 24-hour period. We’ve all heard, “First year it sleeps, second year it creeps, third year it leaps.” Bamboo trees grow very little for the first 4 years. But then, suddenly in the 5th year, they grow 80-90 feet tall. We tend to overestimate what we can do in the short term, but we vastly underestimate what we can do in the longer term. Be the bamboo!
I once had a life insurance salesman ask me how he could double his sales. I answered, “If you’re presently asking people to buy $200,000 worth of life cover, start asking them to buy $400,000 worth of life cover. It’s that simple. But you should start off by making sure that YOU personally have at least $400,000 worth of life cover.” Think BIG. Expect great things. ASK.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
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When you make good business decisions, you get rich. Alan Greenspan says in his latest book that Ayn Rand has been the most important influence on his philosophy, and his philosophy drives his decisions. There are only two kinds of decisions: Those based on emotion, and those based on fact or rational objectivity.
Here is one of the most important quotes you will ever read:
“An emotion is an automatic response, an automatic effect of man’s value premises. An effect, not a cause. There is no necessary clash, no dichotomy between man’s reason and his emotions—provided he observes their proper relationship. A rational man knows—or makes it a point to discover—the source of his emotions, the basic premises from which they come; if his premises are wrong, he corrects them. He never acts on emotions for which he cannot account, the meaning of which he does not understand. In appraising a situation, he knows why he reacts as he does and whether he is right. He has no inner conflicts, his mind and his emotions are integrated, his consciousness is in perfect harmony. His emotions are not his enemies, they are his means of enjoying life. But they are not his guide; the guide is his mind. This relationship cannot be reversed, however. If a man takes his emotions as the cause and his mind as their passive effect, if he is guided by his emotions and uses his mind only to rationalize or justify them somehow—then he is acting immorally, he is condemning himself to misery, failure, defeat, and he will achieve nothing but destruction—his own and that of others.” ~ Ayn Rand.
When your business decisions are driven by need, fear, arrogance, pride, greed, envy, or revenge, they are emotional and irrational. We have all compromised our values and overlooked important red flags to make a buck. The result of compromise is guilt, and guilt causes self-sabotage. In other words, you will lose a lot more than you gain. Ayn Rand: “A chronic lack of pleasure, of any enjoyable, rewarding or stimulating experiences, produces a slow, gradual, day-by-day erosion of man’s emotional vitality, which he may ignore or repress, but which is recorded by the relentless computer of his subconscious mechanism that registers an ebbing flow, then a trickle, then a few last drops of fuel–until the day when his inner motor stops and he wonders desperately why he has no desire to go on, unable to find any definable cause of his hopeless, chronic sense of exhaustion.”
When you do business according to your philosophy and remain true to your values and philosophy, you’ll be happy and you’ll get rich, as long as you have the right philosophy. When your philosophy is one of collectivism or mysticism, your business decisions will be flawed, and they will undermine your business. “The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life.” ~ Ayn Rand.
When business owners sell their souls for money, they start to become conflicted about money. So they start projecting their dishonesty and condemning the very purpose of their business: “Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.” (Ayn Rand).
Good business decisions are the result of careful, level-headed thought. Ayn Rand again:
“Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think.” Choose your philosophy very carefully, if you want to succeed in business. You have to learn to say “No”, even when it costs you money. The more defined and sophisticated your philosophy, the more selective you will become, and the more success you will enjoy. A good analogy is a cheap watch versus an expensive watch. When you buy an expensive watch, you make sure that the person working on or servicing it is well qualified and licensed or authorized to do so. You don’t take your Rolex Presidential to someone who is not an authorized Rolex dealer, any more than you would take your Rolls Royce to a backyard mechanic. Your business is a reflection of YOU. Who you are, your values, your philosophy – everything that you are is reflected in the way you do business.
Every decision has ripple effects and long-term consequences, so it is important to think about the base and foundation of your business decisions and to determine to disciple yourself to live strictly according to your objective philosophy. Compromise and concession are the cancer that kills businesses.
Those who use their minds to make good business decisions find it easier to operate when supported and surrounded by like-minded, ethical Joint Venture partners, hence the importance in DollarMakers to attract and retain only those whose integrity is beyond question and whose philosophy is one of capitalism. Your mastermind, your inner circle, your team, and your family, affects every business decision you make. Be aware of that.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
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One of the devastating revelations that people have when they finally understand money and business is that the academics, mystics, politicians, and 97% of the people they know have been lying to them. The myths and fables about creating wealth, retiring, and financial freedom have distorted the truth to the extent that academic institutions, “financial planners”, conmen, “consultants”, mystics, and casinos make a fortune. They do not want you to know the truth about money, because they will lose money if you find out. They have a vested interest in your ignorance.
We are taught by people with no money how to make money – teachers, academics, and government employees who are paid measly salaries to “lecture” people on how to start their own businesses – “Self Employment Programs”, often run by employees who failed in their own businesses and had to get a government job – the blind leading the blind. We are conned by mystics and those who sell us mutual funds, stocks and bonds, and seminars that teach us things that simply don’t work. And we depend on the government to support us. That’s like asking a hungry wolf to come and baby-sit your week-old offspring. Jim Addison said, “Don’t take advice from people who are more screwed up than you are.” But there is a higher way. And I don’t mean dragging your spouse off to the local “Franchise Show” where you lose your life savings to some smooth talking salesman who tells you wonderful stories. Did you notice that he doesn’t personally own on of the franchises he’s selling, or were you dazzled by his lies and whitened teeth?
By now, you’re wondering if this recession will confirm your fear that you’ll never be able to retire, and that you’re condemned to shortage, scarcity, and despondency, and to live among those whose quiet desperation and passive aggression turns them into sports fanatics who live vicariously through violent hockey players and football stars. You realize that nothing has worked for you so far, and you’re ready to roll over and quit the idea of ever being financially free. Your dreams haven’t just been shelved – they’ve been cremated, and the you’ve lost the ashes. And you find yourself hating those who are rich, secure, and happy. So you vote for socialists and collectivists, hoping the government will end up helping you out, since your adult kids are living in your basement, smoking pot, and breeding. Woe is you!
When next you sit yourself down in front of a real entrepreneur, you should understand a few things about where he’s coming from. First, burn your resume – it’s the sign of a has-been that thinks he can coast on his questionable and useless past. Keep the fact that your daddy spent too much of his hard-earned money on your education to yourself. Your academic parrot learning is an affront to any real entrepreneur. The more you talk, the less interested he’ll get. He may not say it, but believe me, he’s thinking: “I don’t care about you or your MBA or how much you sucked up to your previous boss. I just want to know how much money you can make me. And I don’t want you to tell me, because I don’t believe a word you say. SHOW me.”
And now comes the good news. All is not lost. It’s not too late. You CAN get financially free and make your dreams come true, regardless of your age, financial status, weight, circumstances, education, background, connections, whether you own a business or not, whether you have a job or not, and where you live. And you can do it fast, with no risk. Yes, you can start part time; you don’t have to quit that job. The only cost is the investment in your education. And you CAN AFFORD it. Jim Stoval said, “Only take advice from someone who already has what you want.” There is a proven formula that you can use to simply reach out and take your financial freedom. And you can do it in ONE YEAR or less.
I know this sounds too good to be true, and you’re naturally wondering, through a swirling mist of doubt, fear, suspicion, cynicism, and well-earned pessimism, what the catch is. Well, there IS a catch. In fact, there are TWO catches, and only two. These are the only two barriers that can prevent your financial freedom within ONE YEAR, given that you have normal intelligence.
1.   You need the training and support that DollarMakers offers. Without that, you will fail.
2.   You need to WORK hard for up to one year. That’s the tough one where most people quit before the even start. Your motivation needs to be high enough to keep you working in spite of any detours, resistance, barriers, disappointments, or obstacles.
How badly do you want to be free, so that you can join us on the beach in Cancun or Hawaii, and afford whatever you want for yourself and your family? How important is your peace of mind, security, and health? How much do you love your family? Talk is cheap, so I don’t want to hear your answer, because I’ve heard it all before. I will simply watch what you do. DollarMakers is your golden key to freedom. Take it, or leave it.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
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