It’s how big you make the pie
One of the ideas about being successful is that there is a limited “pie” in any field of commerce or endeavor, and that you need to “grab your piece of the pie” before others do, or take it away if they already have “made their mark.”
In the book Conversations With Millionaires by Mike Litman, Mark Victor Hansen (author of the Chicken Soup series of books, among other things) directly disputes this mythology:
“I think everybody deserves prosperity,” he says. “I just learned the first line in The Upanishads. I happen to be Christian, but the first line in The Upanishads, which is the Hindi Bible equivalent, says, ‘Out of abundance he took abundance and still abundance remains.’
“What I am saying is that there is prosperity enough for everybody. It’s not how big a piece of the pie you can get, Calvert Roberts taught me, it’s how big you make the pie.
“Once I caught on to prosperity, I had to write about it… Once you are out of lack and limitation and shortage, you bust out of that, you start to say, ‘Hey, wait a second, there’s enough for everybody.’
“I mean, Ted Turner is getting richer, and has only helped me get richer. Michael Jordan getting richer has helped every athlete get richer, because they are charging more and having agencies. A guy like Bill Gates, last year in his company he made twenty-one thousand millionaires inside Microsoft! Is that incredible?”
See the Mark Victor Hansen program Dreams Don’t Have Deadlines, and other titles at Jim Rohn International
Also see Mike Litman’s articles on achievement
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