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True wealth is confidence.. Quote from George Foreman about longshoremen: Mr. Foreman, who stared down financial collapse as an adult despite a troubled, impo

True wealth is confidence.. Quote from George Foreman about longshoremen: Mr. Foreman, who stared down financial collapse as an adult despite a troubled, impoverished childhood, said he knew real wealth when he saw it. “If you’re confident, you’re wealthy,” he says. “I’ve seen guys who work on a ship channel and they get to a certain point and they’re confident. You can look in their faces, they’re longshoremen, and they have this confidence about them...I’ve seen a lot of guys with millions and they don’t have any confidence,” he says. “So they’re not wealthy.”

richardsuber 13y ago
Confidence is one aspect of Presence which is an aspect of Clarity which is Innate Power (though Clarity is the more accurate word). But Confidence is a LOW aspect of Presence. A higher aspect of it is Forcefulness. A still higher is Strength of Purpose. I'm not going to go into mental theory in the margins of this comment box. But you are confident when you have Clarity about what you want and also about how to get what you want. It doesn't matter a lick how much money you have or how many muscles you have if you don't know how to apply these things to reality in order to get what you want. Note that NONE of this has ANYTHING to do with Wealth OR Success. What Foreman is really saying is that wealth matters for jack shit next to confidence and that confidence is infinitely more precious, rare and valuable. Which is true. Especially in the 20th century when out of 11 billion humans that lived, 90% topped out their Presence at Submissive, 9% topped out at Passive, and less than 1% were Assertive and above. What Foreman called Confidence was probably Assertiveness. Of course, Assertiveness is only +1 on a scale running from -1 to +6. So really, rather pathetic. To me anyways.

richardsuber 13y ago

Confidence is one aspect of Presence which is an aspect of Clarity which is Innate Power (though Clarity is the more accurate word). But Confidence is a LOW aspect of Presence. A higher aspect of it is Forcefulness. A still higher is Strength of Purpose. I'm not going to go into mental theory in the margins of this comment box. But you are confident when you have Clarity about what you want and also about how to get what you want. It doesn't matter a lick how much money you have or how many muscles you have if you don't know how to apply these things to reality in order to get what you want. Note that NONE of this has ANYTHING to do with Wealth OR Success. What Foreman is really saying is that wealth matters for jack shit next to confidence and that confidence is infinitely more precious, rare and valuable. Which is true. Especially in the 20th century when out of 11 billion humans that lived, 90% topped out their Presence at Submissive, 9% topped out at Passive, and less than 1% were Assertive and above. What Foreman called Confidence was probably Assertiveness. Of course, Assertiveness is only +1 on a scale running from -1 to +6. So really, rather pathetic. To me anyways.