The-Slight-Edge

ChAPTER 1
The Slight Edge Philosophy
The law of nature is, Do the thing, and you shall have the
power: but they who do not the thing have not the power.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, Compensation (Essays: First Series, 1841)
Take two seemingly similar people and give them both the exact same
opportunity. One takes it and has remarkable success, the other doesn’t. One
wins, the other does not.
Why?
During my years in business, I’ve worked with several thousand people from
every imaginable walk of life. They have all had the exact same opportunity. (A
number of these people have become millionaires, to the point that somewhere
along the way I picked up the nickname “The Millionaire Maker.”) Many more
people I have worked with have earned a good, solid living. But the great majority
of them, faced with exactly the same opportunities, have gone nowhere.
Why? It’s not a matter of luck. Nor is it timing, nor fate. It’s not a matter of
intelligence, skill or talent, either.
During these same years, I’ve risen to the very top with many different
companies, with different product lines, in different countries and different
languages (which I don’t speak). In case you’re worried that I’m bragging, let me
put your mind at ease: there was absolutely nothing brilliant about what I did.
Actually, it was quite the opposite. In every case, I did the exact same thing every
time, using ridiculously simple strategies made up of ridiculously simple lists of
ridiculously simple actions.