You Can’t Get Rich Thinking Like This | Steve Harvey

A man is as he thinkketh. How you think, that's how you are. If you think poor thoughts, you will forever be poor. The moment you start thinking rich, rich starts coming to you. Cuz your mind is an incredible thing, man. The way it works, the money is a it's a hard game to play. It comes with a lot of problems. But I want you to understand this. When you get the money, you are going to buy everything that you said you wouldn't buy. Can I share this with you? Listen to me, folks. All of you, if you're not already where you want to be financially, everybody has the potential to be financially stable and financially set. You have actually the ability to be rich if you make the decision. But the decision has to be made. A man is as he think. The way it works. Let me teach you this right quick. We got a minute. Okay, listen. You go home tonight. You pick up your remote and you press you aim it towards the TV and you press the on button. What happens? — The TV comes on. Let's say Sports Center is channel 840. You press in 840 and you hit select. What do you expect to come on your TV? — SPORTS CENTER. WHAT COMES ON YOUR TV? Sports center. If HBO is channel 400 and you press select, what do you expect to see on that TV? HBO. Guess what shows up on your TV? HBO. This is from a simple mechanism called a remote which is made and created from the concept of mental capacity which is comes from the concept that all of us was created in the image of God. That's why in the beginning God said let there be light. He ain't just light it up. He said let there be light to prove to us that if you say it that's what it's going to be. That's the proof, man. That's the deal. Your mind is the biggest remote ever created cuz you created in the image of God. So if God said, "Let there be light. " And then there was light, he could have just lit it up. But he showed you what you say, what you think is. — So if you point this mind at something and you project that to that something, guess what's going to come back? Whatever you project. That's how it worked. I just wanted to be rich. — It's all I wanted. So, I had some faith. That's how it work. I project rich thoughts. So, rich come to me. — I'm my own remote control. I wish Marjorie into my life cuz I got tired of messing up, picking the wrong chick. I just kept making wrong mistakes. Then I said, "God, hold up, man. I need the right one. one for me. Why don't you show me the right one? I project. Then here she come. All everything I have, cars, I don't care what I got houses. I ask God. I project that. That's what I get. I got vision board. The house I'm living in now was on vision board. I saw that house. Friend of mine owned the house. I saw the house. Went over visit his house seven years. I said, "Man, I want this thing right here. I can live in that house right now. " you you can project yourself into the life of your dreams. Y'all need to hear what I'm trying to tell you. Now, you know, when you do the thing that you're born to do, there's nothing else you could have done. — It's there's nothing else I could have possibly done. — I was born to do this. God gave me this gift. I discovered it and I used it. You've got to discover your God-given gift. Your gift is the thing you do the absolute best with the least amount of effort. As soon as you discover that, your life changes. You have two important days in your life. The day you're born and the day you discover why. The why is directly tied to your gift. It is the thing God gave to you at birth. All of you are gifted. Everybody in here, everybody in this room is gifted. You just got to quit looking at it as running, jumping, singing, and dancing. There are other gifts. Once you identify that gift, the Bible says your gift will make room for you and put you in the presence of great men. That's what your gift will do. You got to discover that. Just sit down with yourself and think, what is it you do the absolute best with the least amount

of effort? What is that? That's what you do. If teaching is your thing, teaching is it. If connecting the dots, networking is it? Networking it is. Is some people are care for people better. Some people babysit. You don't baby. Come on, man. Do what you going to do. Cuz babysitters turn into daycare centers. Daycare centers turned into businesses. Those businesses turned into millions of dollars. Look, I'm going to tell you something real. You can be rich if you make the decision to be rich. You just got to stop trying to think of how to make a million dollars. — If you could dollars, wouldn't you have done it by now? — You don't need to think of how to make a million. You need to think of this gift if you have that can make you $10. Let me ask you a question. How many of you have something that you could do that you could charge someone $10 for? I don't care if it's braiding hair, cutting grass. making beads. clothes. All of you have something. You can tutor somebody for $10. You can babysit somebody for $10. Then guess what you do? Go do that. Then when you make the $10, I want you to do it 10 more times. You'll have $100. After you do that 10 times, I want you to do it 10 more times. Whatever you did to make $100, do it 10 more times. You'll have $1,000. After you make $1,000, here's what I want you to do. Whatever you did to make the $1,000, listen to me. I want you to do it 10 more times. you will have $10,000. Now, here's the hard part. When you make $10,000, here's what I want you to do. Take that $10 thing that you made $10,000 with, and I want you to do it 10 more times. Just multiply all of your efforts by 10. That 10,000 turns into a $100,000. Now, after you make $100,000, you're going to have to hire some people. They're going to have some people working for you so you can keep doing it in multiples of 10. But after you make $100,000, I got news for you. I want you to listen to this real careful. Here's what you have to do. This is the catch. Whatever you did to make $100,000. Listen to me. You have to do that 10 more times. Once you times, you now congratulations, you are now a millionaire. That's how it works. These jokes I tell, I didn't start making millions. I made $25 a night when I first started. night. I kept doing it over and over till I started $50. Now I charge a h 100red a night, 125 a night, 150 a night, 250 a night, a,000 a night. 5,000 a night, $50,000 a night, $100,000 a night, $200,000 a night, a half million dollar a night. I stood somewhere for a million dollars a day. — But I've been doing this 30ome years. I just keep multiplying my efforts by 10. That's how it's done. Simplify it. Quit tripping on the million. Make $10 and just keep doing it. I got a partner. All he cut grass whole time we was going up. He used to charge $2 for the front and $2 for the back. He made $4. We used to laugh at him every time we wanted to go somewhere now. Wait a minute. You want to go with us? No, I'm cutting grass. We used to call him hedge clip. Just cut grass. We used to laugh. We go to parties. He ain't want to go. I got to get up and cut Miss Jackson grass in the morning. He ain't never want to go. Yeah, we laughed at his ass. Well, guess what? He in Cleveland, Ohio today. He's 60 years old. You know how much he make a year? He makes $4 million US a year. You know what he do? He cut grass. He don't do nothing but cut grass. He got every contract in the city. He done bought 38 trucks. He got 38 trucks out on the road now. And when it's snow outside, since he do such a good job cutting grass, they let him remove the snow with plows on the trucks. He making $4 million a year. You know what his ass do? He cut grass — for $4. Did it and did it. And that's how it works, y'all. That's the secret.

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