You Where Born Rich

BOB PROCTOR

YOU WERE

BORNRICH

Now You Can Discover and Develop Those Riches

Copyright © 1984 by McCrary Publishing Revised Edition Copyright © 1997, 2002, 2010 by LifeSuccess Productions All rights reserved. The use of any part of this publication reproduced, transmitted by any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or stored in aretrieval system, without the prior consent of the publisher is an infringement of the copyright law. LifeSuccess Productions 8900 E. Pinnacle Peak Road Suite D-240 Scottsdale, AZ 85255 800-871-9715 480-767-2458 480-661-1014 fax www.bobproctor.com Cover Design: Van Crosby

ISBN 9781599303673 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

DEDICATED TO LINDA who brought the sun from the south with her and willingly shared itwith Brian, Colleen and Raymond.

You Were Born Rich

One And Only You
Every single blade of grass, And every flake of snow— Is just a wee bit different ... There’s no two alike, you know. From something small, like grains of sand, To each gigantic star All were made with THIS in mind: To be just what they are! How foolish then, to imitate— How useless to pretend! Since each of us comesfrom a MIND Whose ideas never end. There’ll only be just ONE of ME To show what I can do— And you should likewise feel very proud, There’s only ONE of YOU. That is where it all starts With you, a wonderful unlimited human being. James T. Moore

You Were Born Rich

i

Foreword Zig Ziglar may be the master motivator, Mark Victor Hansen of Chicken Soup For the Soul, the master storyteller;Anthony Robbins may be the guru of personal development, but Bob Proctor is the master thinker. When it comes to systematizing life, no one else can touch him. He is simply the best. Bob Proctor collects thoughts like Imelda Marcos used to collect shoes. He strings them together in exquisite arrays; one thought leading logically to the next until a whole method has been constructed. In this volume, YouWere Born Rich, Bob Proctor has done it again, this time taking you step by step to the surprising discovery that success is not always “reaching out” for something that you don’t have but rather only “reaching over” and rearranging the pieces already there. I read with fascination as Bob carefully built his case and then found myself instantly applying his conclusions to ongoing projects andrelationships. Therein lies the great value of this book. You can instantly apply the conclusions to your own life. It will begin to impact you long before you reach the last chapter. Bob often says that he is not really making suggestions that are new, that in fact we already, instinctively “know” these truths. He may be a little modest in this regard. He certainly offers nuances that are new to meand some may make the difference between success and failure. I found that even some of his “obvious” success ideas were dormant and unappreciated in my own life. And the ones that I thought I knew and understood, the ones that I

ii

You Were Born Rich

personally subscribed to that were active in my life, well they were re-arranged in an order that made them even easier to put to use.“Practical,” that is the word that comes to mind, the theories in You Were Born Rich can work for anyone, anywhere, at anytime. Remember, Bob Proctor is a direct link to the modern science of success stretching back to Andrew Carnegie the great financier and philanthropist. Carnegie’s secrets inspired and enthused Napoleon Hill, whose book Think and Grow Rich in turn inspired a whole genre ofsuccess-philosophy books that now take up large sections of modern bookstores. Napoleon Hill, in turn passed the baton onto Earl Nightingale, who has since placed it in Bob Proctor’s capable hands. Bob Proctor sat at the feet of these giants at Nightingale-Conant and their whole stable of speakers and writers, growing to love and appreciate their discoveries before ever attempting to build on them...