Someone grew up poor and hungry to escape it. They spent time in the library reading Dale Carnegie, Napoleon Hill, and Stephen Covey, then applied what they learned. Books and action, not luck or connections, changed everything.
And so I hated that life of poverty. I hated being poor because I saw that right down the street there's great wealth and abundance. So literally from the time I was a young kid, I said, how the heck do I get from here to there? And, you know, of course there was no one who could answer that question. This was long before the internet or anything like that. So I did the only thing I could think of to do, which is I went to the library and started reading every book. I read every book that I could on personal growth and self-help, all the classics, Dale Carnegie, Napoleon Hill, Stephen Covey. I read every book that I could and I just, I really tried to apply them.
