Robert Collier

The first principle of success is DESIRE— knowing wha

Desire is the planting of your seed. It needs cultivation, of course, but the first important step is the PLANTING

Rich or poor—it’s all one to you.

What turned the complaining, discouraged, poverty-stricken and quite ordinary young Bonaparte into the greatest military genius of his age, “Man of Destiny” and master of most of Europe?

If you have an urgent need, and keep praying and insisting and demanding the remedy, don’t you suppose you will get it just as surely?

the indifference, the inertia

We are surrounded by riches. We have available unlimited wealth. But we have to learn how to draw it to us.

Today, the farm he tried so hard to cultivate is the site of the Kimberley Diamond Mines, one of the richest spots on the face of the globe.

Most of us are like that poor Boer farmer. We strive and struggle, and frequently give up, because of ignorance of our powers, ignorance of the good things around us.

We remain in poverty until along comes someone and shows that we were standing on a diamond mine all the time