Born for a dime, you will never amount to a quarter !

Hi Guys,

In my country there is a saying: "If you are born for a dime, you will never be a quarter" meaning that if you are not born in a rich family you will stay the way you are and never will be and earn more. Oh forgot to mention I am from Amsterdam, The Netherlands by the way !

Most people in my area all have the conviction that being succesful is only for the lucky few. I used to think that way too since the people around you influence you when you are child.What I also heard is people having the conviction that rich people must have earned their money with criminal activities or people saying that someone driving a Ferrari is a show off / bragging.

When people around you, family, friends, school friends all think this way, you start to copy these beliefs as a child, so I had to work hard to de-program myself from all these limiting beliefs. I found that tlimiting beliefs and envy / jeaulousy towards succesful people are exactly the things keeping people from being succesful themselves.

When someone is jeaulous of another driving an expensive sportscar or living in a mansion that person is basically saying to him / herself with being jealous, I don't think I can achieve and have the same things as him / her. They are not angry or resentful towards the succesful person, deep down they are angry at themselves for thinking they cannot achieve and have the same as the succesful person they are jeaulous of.

The majority of people say and think being succesful and having your own succesful business is only for the lucky few. Now everybody is talking about how difficult it is to make money in this crisis. They forgot that the Big Depression in 1930 brought forth more millionaires than ever before or after.

"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change"

The people who are talking about crisis are the ones who watch negative news on television and newspapers. They think there is a crisis, cause the media keeps repeating it as a mantra. Lots of millionaires and billionares do no watch negative news on television / newspapers simply cause they know this Universe is abundant in every way.

There are trillions of dollars and only 7 billion people, when you think of it, with that money everyone could be a millionaire. There is an abundance of stars, sand, trees, water, people, animals, plants, flowers and so on, even money trillions of it. As said everyone could be a millionaire with trillions of dollars, still most people think in lack which is equal to Poverty Consciousness. Society and especially the media, schools and television teach people to think in terms of lack.

Ego / Thinking brain = Limitation / Lack

Universe = Possibilities / Abundance

I was wondering if somone here knows of research / study done into people that were born for a dime and became a quarter. People who were born in ghetto's or other poor environments and went on to become succesful. I know of businessman and rappers who achieved this, however I wondered if there has ever been done research on this, how many people achieved this.

I know millions of people went from being poor to succescful businessman or any other profession in the last hundred years. Would be cool if such research has been done with the numbers to back it up ! Maybe someone here knows of such research, if not I like to hear your take on the saying "If you are born for a dime, you will never be a quarter" !