5 Short, Brilliant Lessons From the 5 Most Legendary Entrepreneurs of the Past 50 Years
1. The Only Way to Become a Leading Man/Woman is To Treat Yourself Like One.
1. The Only Way to Become a Leading Man/Woman is To Treat Yourself Like One.
-Arnold Schwarzenegger
When Arnold Schwarzenegger was just beginning his acting career, he received many offers for lesser roles — crude villains like Nazi officers, evil henchmen with no lines, and the like. All everyone saw was a foreigner with a thick accent and big muscles.
His agent begged him to take the roles. He refused.
Years after becoming the most famous leading man in all of Hollywood, he wrote: “The only way you become a leading man is to treat yourself like a leading man, and work your ass off.”
After reading dozens of the most influential books on success and personal growth, this is by far the most constant lesson I see, over and over again.
James Allen put this lesson another way: “As a man thinketh, so he is. As he continues to think, so he remains.”
You become what you think you are.
