2. • If you want money, you only have to do one thing.
• It is the one thing some of the wealthiest people on the planet have done and are
doing.
• It is the one thing written about in various ancient cultures and still promoted today.
• It is the one thing that will bring money to anyone who does it but at the same time
most people will fear doing it.
What is this one thing?
WHAT IS THE GREATEST MONEY-MAKING SECRET IN HISTORY?
4. ‘ Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and
responsibility to give something back by becoming more. ’
- ANTHONY ROBBINS.
5. POWER OF GIVING
• Giving is one of the most powerful principles of all time.
• It is a wealth habit that must be practised to become wealthy.
• It benefits us as much or more than it benefits those to whom we give.
• It helps us to know that by raising the standard the living for the least able among
us, we raise our standard of living in turn.
• Giving reminds witnesses and people around us that we are all interdependent on
one another for our care and well-being.
6. COMMON EXCUSES FOR NOT GIVING
• ‘ I will give when I have reached a certain net worth.’
• ‘ I need to save money for myself and for my family.’
• ‘ I can not afford to give money, so I give time and services gratis.’
• ‘ I’d give If I knew where to give.’
• ‘ I feel uneasy giving money. I do not know what they will do with it.’
• ‘ My donation is too small to make a difference.’
• ‘ Poverty can’t be solved.’
• ‘ I am in debt.’
7. FACTS ABOUT NOT GIVING
• Not giving freely brings fear-bear thoughts and self-fulfilling prophecies.
• Your scarcity mind-set makes it harder to attract money and have it stay in
your life.
9. JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER
(1839-1937)
• He founded Standard Oil in 1870, at the age of 31, and bought up most of the oil
refineries in the United States, eventually controlling about 90% of the American oil
business.
• In 1924, he wrote to his son and explained his practice of giving away money. He wrote,
‘‘In the beginning of getting money, away back in my childhood, I began giving away, and
continued increasing the gift as the income increased.”
• He gave away $ 550 million in his lifetime.
• He was worth $ 340 billion in today’s dollar at the time of his death.
• He was also the first American to acquire a net worth of $ 1 billion.
• He was the richest American to have ever lived.
10. ANDREW CARNEGIE
(1835-1919)
• A Scottish-American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American
Steel Industry in the 19th century.
• He made most of his fortune when he sold his Carnegie Steel Company to JP Morgan for
$ 480 million in 1901, acquiring a net worth equivalent to $ 310 billion in today’s
dollars.
• After selling his company, he dedicated his time to charity, giving away the majority of
his fortune during his lifetime.
• He donated money to build over 2,500 libraries worldwide.
• His final $ 30 million was then donated after his death.
12. BILL GATES
• He is an American business magnate, investor, computer programmer and inventor who
established his reputation as the co-founder of Microsoft, the world’s largest PC software
company with Paul Allen.
• He has pursued a number of philanthropic endeavours, donating large amounts of
money (approximately $28 billion) to charitable organisations and scientific research
programme through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
• Today, He is constantly ranked in the Forbes List of the World’s Wealthiest People (with a
net worth of $ 79.3 billion) and was the wealthiest overall from 1995 to 2014.
13. OPRAH WINFREY
• She is an American proprietor, talk show host.
• She is best known for her talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, which was the highest
rated programme of its kind in history.
• She is the most charitable celebrity, having given away about $ 400 million to
educational causes and programmes for women and children.
• Her net worth is $3.0 billion.
• Dubbed the ‘ Queen of All Media ’, she has been ranked the richest African-American
of the 20th century and the greatest black philanthropist in American history.
14. COMMON TRAIT
• They got money in part because they were willing to freely give.
Consequences
• The giving led to the receiving.
• The giving led to more wealth.
15. • Want to receive more? Then give more.
• Giving makes you feel good.
• The spiritual law of income seems to happen when you give money freely to
wherever you get your spiritual nourishment and nurturing.
• Give, and give a lot, to be in the flow of life to receive.
• You can get rich by giving but the only way to find out if this really works is to
actually do it.
• Practice Joe Vitale’s magnetic principles:
Give time and you will get time.
Give products and you will get products.
Give love and you will get love.
Give money and you will get money.
SUMMARY
16. • Individual donations make a big impact.
• Do not beg for money and expect to get wealthy.
• Do not give money to beggars and expect to get wealthy.
17. ‘ If ever there is a lack of any kind, whether it is need for employment, or for money, or
for guidance, or even for healing, something is blocking the flow. And the most effective
remedy :
GIVE ! ’
- ERIC BUTTERWORTH.
