Financial success begins with an intense, burning desire for wealth. Not a lukewarm desire, but a burning, all-consuming desire to become a millionaire. This intensity of emotion, commitment and determination is absolutely essential for you to keeping driving forward in the face of the unending adversity and disappointment that will confront you and attack you from all sides when you resolve to become wealthy.

There is a Japanese proverb, —Making money is like digging with a pin; losing money is like pouring water on the sand.“ The fact is that we live in a increasingly competitive world, full of people who are absolutely determined to make as much money as they possibly can. These people will do anything to take away our customers, to overcharge us and under deliver, and even engage in deceit, embezzlement, fraud, shoddy dealing, cheating and incompetence that you cannot even imagine at the outset.

To become wealthy, you must become as sharp as a fox, continually alert and aware of the possibility that, —anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.“ You will experience never ending reversals of fortune and unexpected setbacks. Murphy‘s second law says, —Of all the things that can go wrong, it will always be the worst possible thing, at the worst possible time, and cost the greatest amount of money.“