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Recipe for Success

My Dad always told me success was elusive. He said that when he was in his twenties he knew that if he could put sixty thousand dollars in the bank he'd be set. He set a goal that by the time he was thirty he'd have at least sixty thousand in a savings account. Step back for a minute and remember that in the 1940's, sixty thousand dollars was a lot of money. What happened to his goal? He met it. So why wasn't he successful? By the time he was thirty, sixty thousand dollars wasn't worth as much as ten years earlier. Inflation had raised his ugly head. So, financial success was elusive for that period of time. The story doesn't stop there though. He didn't quit. He took what he learned and went on to become a multi-millionaire. I'd say that is pretty successful. To read the rest of the story and see some steps to build financial and business success.