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By one of the world’s most widely-known business speakers and author of the bestselling Maximum Achievement (over 250,000 copies sold) o Provides a wealth of practical advice anyone can use to become a self-made millionaire o Over 2 million people have heard Brian Tracy speak and more than 1.5 million have purchased his audio and video programs The 21 Success Secrets of Self-Made Millionaires shows how anyone, no matter what their station in life at this moment, can become a millionaire. The advice in this booklet is based on Brian Tracy’s decades of careful analysis of the habits and practices of hundreds of self-made millionaires. According to Tracy, successful people are simply those who practice these 21 success secrets. This small, inexpensive book provides a step-by-step formula to become a millionaire—starting from wherever you are today. You’ll learn how to set goals, make plans, and organize yourself to get more of what you really want in life. Use these practical, proven strategies and ideas to move ahead faster than you ever thought possible! Easy to read, easy to understand, and easy to apply, The 21 Success Secrets of Self-Made Millionaires offers a straightforward, eye-opening, life-affirming approach to how the world really works.

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Useful advice but exaggerated claims. Application of this advice is not guaranteed to make you a millionaire.
According to the author Brian Tracy anybody can apply the 21 success secrets of self- made millionaires he explains and guarantee financial independence. While the advice is useful to develop beneficial habits, sweeping statements such as : " nobody is smarter than you and nobody is better than you ", " if you apply this advice you are guaranteed to succeed " etc. are not very convincing. While it is true that many people suffer from low self esteem and would benefit from an increase in belief in their potential, interpreting this advice literally would mean that all 6 billion humans on the planet are equally smart and good, because nobody is smarter nor better than you no matter who you are. Of course this statement is absurd, but I believe Brian Tracy does not mean it literally. He tries to persuade listeners of this audiobook with low self esteem to believe that they can do better. Among the 21 success secrets are ( not in the order given by the author ) regular exercise, frugality, integrity, dreaming big dreams, social networking, setting of values and priorities and focusing to achieve them, working hard, working fast, serving customers fast, paying yourself first i.e. allocating 10 % of your monthly income to investments, reading a book or listening to an audiobook per week, attending seminars, reading professional journals especially in your profession, seeing yourself as working for yourself even if you work for somebody else, deciding and working to be the best in your profession etc. There is no doubt that consistent application of this advice will improve the applier's life in general. But I am not convinced that by themselves these principles are a sure way to becoming a millionaire. A significant part of his advice is directed to people working on payroll for a boss even though he says see yourself as the president of your own personal services company. There is advice such as : " when your boss asks you to do something, drop everything else and do it so fast that he will be amazed ". Get to work before everyone and leave after everyone, don't socialize at work, just work. Work much more than 40 hours per week. The first 40 hours is just for subsistence to pay the bills. Any work over 40 hours per week is to get rich. While I esteem hard work this advice to work hard by itself given by the author is ridiculous. There is very little if any mention of working effectively. The slogan " work smart not hard " does not exist among his advice. Many people who work hard and long hours don't work effectively. Many of them are workoholics compensating for some kind of psychological disturbance through hard work that is often not result oriented and is ineffective. Many of those workoholics are fulfilling BrianTracy's advice to work hard. Many of these people have unbalanced lives, suffer from depression etc. Their hard and ineffective work is an escape from various emotional and mental disturbances. How many bosses reward that kind of work ? Brian Tracy does not say effectiveness in work is not important but he does not stress that point either. He talks about working fast, not working effectively. He gives the advice to develop a reputation for speed. I agree that speed and hard work are important but only if they are effective at the same time. But many people at the workplace are very speedy and equally ineffective. This increase in speed without a clear direction and purpose in work and in life has been the subject of several good books among others such as " First things first " by Stephen Covey, " Faster" by James Gleick and " Success Intelligence " by Robert Holden.I recommend that everybody read those books. If you are interested in the characteristics of millionaires and how you can apply their principles to become financially much better off I recommend the following three good books : " Eight Steps to Seven Figures " by Charles B. Carlson, " The Millionaire Next Door " and " The Millionaire Mind" by Thomas j. Stanley and William D.Danko. Those books have a much more detailed and convincing analysis of millionaire lifestyle, thinking and strategies to become rich without the apple polishing statements such as you are the greatest, nobody is better than you. They say that you have the potential to duplicate what the millionaires did but without exaggerated sweeping statements. Especially, Eight Steps to Seven Figures has a clear 8 step action plan that any person determined to achieve financial independence can apply.