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“No matter what uncertainty the future holds for the global economic climate, “being valuable to others” will never be obsolete, irrelevant, or valueless.”
― Bryan Franklin, The Last Safe Investment: Spending Now to Increase Your True Wealth Forever

“Whether you’re an employee, self-employed, or starting a business that employs others, few things will affect your earning power as strongly as your credibility with potential employers or potential customers and clients. Less and less, such credibility depends on formal credibility from degrees, awards, or affiliations, or even a résumé list of what skills you’ve amassed. More and more, credibility comes from the ability to produce results, and to share and document those results in a verifiable way.”
― Bryan Franklin, The Last Safe Investment: Spending Now to Increase Your True Wealth Forever

“the problem is not lack of learning. Rather, he believes, when we are undergraduates, we learn all too well: we learn to ape the bureaucratic, academic, clear-as-swamp-water prose of our professors.”
― Bryan Franklin, The Last Safe Investment: Spending Now to Increase Your True Wealth Forever

“It must be completely initiated and maintained by you, rather than depending on the performance of companies, agencies, lawmakers, home prices, stock indices, or other factors beyond your control.”
― Bryan Franklin, The Last Safe Investment: Spending Now to Increase Your True Wealth Forever

“People who do not learn about sales tend to feel highly victimized by “the economy” as a nebulous force they don’t understand. Anytime you find yourself blaming an outside force, such as the economy, it should serve as a signal that it’s time to invest more in Interpersonal Super Skills. “The economy” doesn’t create economic opportunity on an individual scale. People do. Specifically, people who are rainmakers—that is, those who have learned how to sell well. If you’re feeling insecure in your career, or if you feel as though you may be switching your work sometime soon (either voluntarily or involuntarily), consider investing in learning how to become a rainmaker.”
― Bryan Franklin, The Last Safe Investment: Spending Now to Increase Your True Wealth Forever