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Billionaire Secrets to Success

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1 star:		(5)

 

 

Looking at the 1 star reviewers really got me motivated to sit here & type up this review.

Those people who rated it 1 star only did so because maybe they looked up on Wikipedia and saw that Bill Bartmann's business collapsed and he was left penniless after having been a billionaire.

First of all, the court did not find him at fault - it was his business partner. While he was probably responsible for not seeing the symptoms, the point is he wasn't the one who defrauded people.

Second of all, I say to the reviewers - what has that got to do with the book??? NOTHING! This book is about self esteem, not about how much wealth a person's built up, or how much he's lost. If you're focusing on that, you may as well not read any books by people who've been in the hole before. People like Donald Trump, for example, who's also been bankrupt. Does that discredit his knowledge? No!

The bottom line is, the guy made a 3.5 billion bucks, and if you complainers want to argue, I say go out & make a billion yourself. It's a mindset you have to have in order to be successful, and I truly believe that. People who have success are positive and never give up. And this advice has come from Bartmann, and countless other self made millionaires/ billionaires.

The advice in the book is solid, and it plain works. It's not a whole lot of voodoo like some other motivational writers write about (but have made their money putting bums on seminar seats, not making it in the real world). And Bill's bounced back from being bankrupt twice.

Once, after losing millions, and now, after losing 3.5 billion. Yes it's easy for people to point their fingers and say hey look, that guy's lost 3.5 billion dollars and got over 3900 employees out of jobs - but do you ever wonder how damned TOUGH it was for the person himself?

Do you really think people who have low self esteem bounce back from situations like that?? Do you really think if you made all that and then lost it, you'd still be jolly & positive? It would be tough, wouldn't it? Most people would just drop out of society and feel sorry for themselves the rest of their life.

But Bill Bartmann's overcome that. He's now a millionaire again, and he teaches EXPERIENCE, not theory. One motivational guru has boasted about reading over 1000 books on self help and then developed his own system. That's great, but isn't that a pile of it. That guru has built his system on theory and doesn't know squat about what it takes to be financially independent, what it takes to run a big business. It's just like taking a college textbook and saying, I have all the tools to build me a big business. You don't. Bartmann has done it first hand, and he's seen both the good & bad side of business, and life. And he's bounced back from his bankruptcy. So I think that makes him qualified to teach a thing or two about self esteem.

So yes, he's lost billions, yes, his employees lost their jobs. But he's also MADE billions, and has the self esteem and mental toughness that it takes to bounce back and still become a millionaire. And if somebody can do the latter, I think it makes them someone you can learn quite a few lessons from.

Yes, the reviews below are true; CFS imploded crazily, Bill was like a tyrant, and he called his employees dumbbastard SOBs.

But, so what?

Listen, I've read this book and it makes complete sense regarding how our brain works and how it has worked to preserve the species. Now, in modern society, Bill tells us how our brain's evolved mechanisms influences our behavior in a negative way.

In a nutshell:

1) Our brain gathers ALL information
2) Our brain places priority over information with EMOTIONS or REPETITION
3) Because our society teaches us to be MODEST, we subconsciously downplay our successes, and overplay our failures
4) The subconscious draws information from these priority information and guess what, it thinks we aren't very capable because we have more NEGATIVE information than POSITIVE.
5) Our self-image is tied to our self preservation, which prevents us from being harmed (embarrassed) etc.
6) Consequently, our brain forces us to rationalize, self-sabotage, etc. basically anything that prevents us from reaching our goals.


Do yourself a favor, READ this book. It has all the details that you need. Bill also tells you how to practically utilize our brain's such defense mechanism to do the OPPOSITE of self-sabotage.

I also recommend "Conquer Fear" by Lisa Jimenez, as a good complementary book.

At age 76, in recent years my goal has been to be able to get out of bed the next morning. Your wonderful book has awakened a dormant mind. Now I feel like I am 76 years young...instead of 76 years old!

I have re-read your book several times in the past week, each time I do I discover more about me and the exciting future I have in fronty of me. Thank you for giving me the most precious gift of all - a clear view of who and what I am and what I an capable of doing.

Bill does an awesome job of teaching not only the 'why' but more importantly the 'how'. And when it comes to understanding "how" the mind works and functions, Bill does a great job of relaying that understanding so that achieving success becomes easier. It's a must read for those who are serious about their view of themselves and the future they want for themselves and their families.

Thanks Bill!

The most important message I've got from this
inspiring book was:

Don't set goals! Make a strong promise to yourself.
Bill Bartmann shows us that there are no pre-requisites
to be wealth in life. All you need is a larger than life "will"
to fulfill your promise to yourself and to the world.

That mindset will help you achieve almost anything in life,
including walking after all doctors would tell you would be
paraplegic for the rest of your life. Including amassing
millions of dollars, etc...

Thanks Bill for taking the time and share your life experiences
with the rest of us in this valuable document. I wish other
billionaires would do the same. You are very special!

Don't listen to the two reviews below. They are trash.
You can easily see they are written by someone using two different names a day apart. Who knows why some loser would do this to try and smear a guy that's trying to help millions of people (including thousands of high school kids) with his teachings...

Yes, Bill was a billionaire, and yes, now he's not and is a motivational speaker. What's wrong with that? I think it's great.
What have you done with your life?? (Hopefully more than the loser who wrote the two reviews below.)

Bill's had his ups and downs and I think that's what makes his story so great.

If you will follow the 5 things he teaches you can be a better person and achieve more in the process.

Bill will teach you these things in detail, but to sum it up, they are:
1. Think Big!
2. Believe in Yourself. Self Esteem is EVERYTHING.
3. Share Your Vision.
4. Execute. Get Off Your Couch and Take Action.
5. Never Ever Give Up.

If you get a chance to hear him speak do it.

I think the book is fantastic. I've read a lot of other books with similar aims, what is so great about this is the way it helps us to create a positive past and image of ourselves. If it is true that failures and things in the past are often what consciously or unconsciously thwart us from taking action or from being successful, the last exercise in this book has us create a positive past to act from. I'd recommend it highly no matter what other books you've read or courses you've taken.

Just finished reading Billionaire. Excellent, superb, motivating and practical!!!! Bill Bartmann tells a story that goes way beyond Horacio Alger, Napoleon Hill and others. His life story is one of a very few that has ever really touched my heart. It is unique in that it lays out a practical, achievable way to pull oneself up by your boot strings even if you don't have any boots!

Whoever and wherever you are in life you will be better after reading Billionaire. It is a must read book, especially for our youth.

Dr. James V. Durlacher, Author of Freedom From Fear Forever

George Bernard Shaw once said: "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

Bill Bartmann is an unreasonable man.

Born to a poor and dysfunctional family, he dropped out of high school, joined a gang, and at seventeen, found himself paralyzed from the waist down.

HOW IN THE HECK DID THIS GUY: WALK AGAIN, MARRY THE WOMAN OF HIS DREAMS, BECOME A BILLIONAIRE, AND LIVE LIFE AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL??

Read his book to find out AND to LIVE LIFE AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL!

You can tell this is not a ghost-written book. There's nothing slick and hypey about it. Instead, Bartmann talks straight from his experience.

And what unbelievable experience he has! Going from a gang member, to being paralyzed, and then not only walking, but becoming a billionaire...and losing it. This guy has seen it all.

Some sour-grapes reviewers seem to think that Bartmann's advice is not valid because he's not worth a billion now. How silly. If you instead soak in Bartmann's insights about self-esteem, about balancing the positive and negative forces that shape our decisions and motivation, then you'll have a unique window into the thinking process that took one man from the depths of despair to amazing success.

Maybe the last chapter of Bartmann's life and fortunes has not been written, but the chapters he penned in this book are worth paying close attention to.