introduction

• procrastination, the opposite of decision, is a common enemy that practically everybody must conquer
• analysis of several hundred people who accumulated fortunes well beyond the million-dollar mark disclosed the fact that every one of them had the habit of reaching decisions promptly and of changing these decisions slowly, if and when they were changed
• people who fail to accumulate money, without exception, have the habit of reaching decisions, if at all, very slowly, and of changing these decisions quickly and often
• if you are influenced by 'opinions' when you reach decisions, you will not succeed in any undertaking, much less in that of transmuting your own desire into money
• if you are influenced by the opinions of others, you will have no desire of your own
• you have a breain and a mind of your own. use it and reach your own decisions. if you need facts of information form other people to enable you to reach decisions, acquire these facts or secure the information you need quickly, without disclosing you purpose
• keep your eyes and ears wide open and your mouth closed if you wich to acquire the habit of prompt decision
• if you talk more than you listen, you not only deprive yourself of many opporunities to accumulate useful knowledge, but you also disclose your plans and purposes to people who will take great delight in defeating you, because they envy you
• tell the world what you intend to do, but first show it

freedom or death on a decision

• the value of decisions depends upon the courage required to make them
• indecision is a habit that usually begins in youth. the habit takes on permanency as the youth goes through school and even through university or college without definiteness of purpose. the major weakness of all educational systems is that they neither teach nor encourage the habit of definite decision