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Today's podcast has been edited and adapted from three lectures on the laws of financial success by B.F. Austin published in 1918.

Financial success is won by those who dare to think big.

Little thoughts, plans, and ideals beget little interest, little effort, little enthusiasm

in the individual, and awaken little or no interest in the minds of others.

The radical difference between the popcorn vendor at the fair and the next Steve Jobs

is in the size of their ideas and concepts. Popcorn

ideas begin a popcorn life. Great ideas, projects, and enterprises rouse the soul of the individual

to the effort, courage, and daring that is commensurate with grand ideas.

Great individuals cannot be approached with any project of a trifling character. Time and

mental force are too valuable to waste on things not worthwhile. An entrepreneur should continually

plan greater and still greater projects for themselves

and have the courage and daring to embark upon these new enterprises, trusting in the

unfolding powers of their own soul, and in the star of destiny to crown their efforts with success.

Great ideas and projects, if accompanied by sound judgment, of destiny to crown their efforts with success.

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