Successful People

[Jaybird180]

"Analysis of several hundred people who had accumulated fortunes well beyond the million dollar mark, disclosed the fact that every one of them had the habit of reaching decisions promptly, and changing these decisions slowly, if and when they were changed at all. 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."

Bold Mine


I haven't yet had opportunity to study up-close the habits of multi-millionaires, but I believe this statement to be true. During a conversation, it was disclosed to me that the reason for some challenges with a particular person with whom I work, is difference of mindset; they have the habit of changing mind quickly and often (and without explanation) while I have groomed myself away from this.

Please share how you have observed the relationship between decisiveness and success (or money) in your experience?

 

[Jim Logajan]

Also I reject the premise of your thread title. $/=success and vice versa.

For the record, Napoleon Hill's 1937 book was the result of interviews with some people who would be considered successful even in non-monetary term:
"These included Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Henry Ford, Elmer Gates, Charles M. Schwab, Theodore Roosevelt, William Wrigley Jr, John Wanamaker, William Jennings Bryan, George Eastman, Woodrow Wilson, William H. Taft, John D. Rockefeller, F. W. Woolworth, Jennings Randolph, among others." -- http://napoleonhill.wwwhubs.com/
With these kinds of people, back when a million dollars was a large amount of money, the degree of their decisiveness doesn't seem to be a significant element of their success.