Book Reviews on Making Money and Real Estate

I was so hot and cold about this book when I was first handed it. My mentor at the time told me it was a great first book to read (of this type).

In the past I had seen Amway people reading it so I read it very begrudgingly. But in the end I found it a great read, very motivating and a wonderful book to start any sales career, business opportunity, or really, just on living a phenomenal life.

Highly recommended and would love to hear what you thought of it in the comments below.

Glenn Twiddle

Real Estate Training Brisbane

I’m not sure if I’m reviewing the movie or my CD program named after and inspired by this great man, Daniel ‘Rudy’ Ruettiger.

Rudy Ruettiger

I have seen this movie more times than I can remember. I have shown it to sales teams, watched it in the middle of the night, watched it when I’ve needed a pick up, and when I thought I couldn’t make it. And more times than not, my watching the movie ends with me in tears.

I remember one time I had a sales team, and we hired out a theatre and watched it, and at the end of the movie, there wasn’t a dry eye in the room.

If you haven’t seen it, god, just see it. Even if you don’t get my product (that includes the movie by the way), then steal it from the discount rack, just make sure you OWN THIS MOVIE.

Rudy Ruettiger – the official interview with Glenn Twiddle

No amount of words can really deliver a satisfactory review of this movie that makes Rocky look ordinary. So on that note, I am going to go watch it again as I am high on having just finished reviewing and reflecting on how this movie absolutely changed my life.

Thanks Rudy, you’re the man, and I’ll finish with a quote that I have framed and engraved beneath my autographed poster -

‘….my whole life, people have been telling me what I could do and couldn’t do. I’ve always listened to them, believed what they said. I don’t want to do that any more.” – Daniel ‘Rudy’ Ruettiger

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Rudy Ruettiger – the official interview with Glenn Twiddle

I am not doing a review on this one just yet, as I am currently reading this book WITH a team I am mentoring.

A great way to use this blog for your fullest potential is to get a mastermind group to all read the book at the same time, and all comment on this post so we can all learn at the same time from things we all may have picked up, or some of us may have missed or interpreted differently, but beneficially so.

I may adjust this post as we go, or I may leave it as is, and comment along with the team

John’s a great author, and has DONE IT, and is still doing it, rather than just writing about it. I mean, anyone who is in real estate sales who does not buy John’s books should leave real estate immediately.

Think about it, the guy has read every professional book there is to read, he has applied what he has learned in the field of building a brilliant real estate sales business, arguably the most successful independant agency in Australia, and has summarised what he has learned in a couple of books. Like I said, if you don’t buy and read them, my advice is to leave the industry, as he is spelling out the ‘how to’ for you.

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It’s been a while since I read this one, but I’ll go through it again, I just couldn’t NOT have this classic on the blog in its early days.

It is again, a great story about Robert’s lessons in money management with the two men in his life with very different philosophies that illustrate the difference in thinking between the rich and the employees.

It really illustrates the points and was written before Robert was in the business of being a serial author, when, in my opinion, he did his best work.

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This review wasn’t written by me, but I liked the book and I lied the nice wording of the review so I added this one in. – Glenn

Beloved by millions, this timeless classic holds the key to all you desire and everything you wish to accomplish. This is the book that reveals the secret to personal wealth.

This is the book that holds the secret to acquiring money, keeping money and making money earn more money.

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I wanted to write a quick one on this book. This is for any company, team, organisation or salesperson that is going, or expects to undergo, significant change in their business. And let’s face it, for any business that is going to part of it. From minor changes to major upheavals for many reasons.

This is a very simple and easy to read book that is fun, and you should knock it over in a night. It is told as a sustained metaphor about mice and cheese representing people and money and is told in a very clever teaching style.

When I train people in hypnosis, we teach that metaphor and stories is one of the most effective ways to communicate with the ‘unconscious mind.’ This book exemplifies this point.

Great book to read, only criticism is it is a little short, but if what needs to be said can be done in a shorter amount of time, why fluff it up just to appease a publisher.

Great job by Spencer Johnson.

Glenn Twiddle

This is one of the original Self Help books that I read and it certainly starts you on the road to learning how to manage people in all areas of your life. There’s a VERY successful real estate company near me that won’t even look at your resume unless you have attached to it, a two page book report on what you learned from this book, and how you will apply it.

12 things it boasts it will help you achieve (and it meets many of these points successfully)

1. Get out of a mental rut, think new thoughts, acquire new visions, new ambitions
2. Make friends quickly and easily
3. Increase your popularity
4. Win people to your way of thinking
5. Influence your influence, your prestige, your ability to get things done
6. Win new clients, new customers
7. Increase your earning power
8. Make you a better salesman, a better executive
9. Handle complaints, avoid arguments, keep your human contacts smooth and pleasant
10. Become a better speaker, a more entertaining conversationalist
11. Make the principles of psychology easy for you to apply in your daily contacts
12. Arouse enthusiasm among your associates

This book has done all these things for countless thousands of readers in 28 different languages

In my 1964 edition of this book (that was written in 1936) it has on the fron cover

‘NOW OVER 9,944,500 COPIES SOLD’

Wikipedia now quotes that it has sold over 15 million copies. So it’s obviously got something to offer. Well, it has lots to offer.

Some of the principles are a little dated, like smiling a lot will help, and say people’s names all the time. It sounds so basic, but it’s true and works. Some of the examples are a little dated as well, but there is a revised edition available that helps in that area.

All in all worth your attention and the time it takes to read, if just to re-enforce some of the things you already know, and to analyse this piece of ‘self help’ history.

Glenn Twiddle

It’s an interesting story about the author of ‘Think and Grow Rich’, Napoleon Hill. Now this book is on more millionaires’ recommended reading list than any other with the exception of the bible, so really it is the bible of the money making industry. And the interesting thing is, according to acclaimed trainer Dan Kennedy, that he was almost broke if W. Clement Stone, who was a student of Hill’s, hadn’t bailed him out and gave him a job as his sales trainer towards the end of his career. I’ll discuss the one flaw with this book in a moment.

This book was compiled by Napoleon Hill after studying the most successful people in America in the early 20th Century and analysing what traits and patterns of thinking were common to all, or most, of them. And the results of decades of this study are contained in this book. And here we, the public, can get decades worth of research for less than $20. Man, you got to love books huh?

So why did the man who pretty much ‘got it’ didn’t ‘have it.’ Well this book really should be titled, ‘How to Think to Grow Rich.’ I think the problem was in the implication that all you have to do is ‘think’ in a certain way and you’ll magically grow rich. It’s the unspoken ‘just’ before the title that is implied that is the problem. Without the action, in an environment where you’re likely to make money, you can think all you like and nothing will change. Unless the thinking leads to doing, there will be no getting rich. Don’t get me wrong, Hill had a great income at various times in his life with all the extravagance that goes with it, but he made some mistakes as well.

I think that’s also the problem with ‘The Secret,’ which by the way, is based on the principals in this book. Some of the people on the Secret imply that just the thoughts will make the reality, but James Ray and Joe Vitale are the two that promote the ‘MASSIVE ACTION’ as an integral part of the deal.

That being said, all in all, an absolute MUST for anyone who has a desire for making money. The one downside is that the examples are a little dated, but if you get the updated version that is a moot point.

I stole my copy from my Dad. It was printed in 1960 and it has ‘Newly Revised’ on the old ratty cover. Quite simply – REQUIRED READING. (Oh yeah, and don’t let the chapter on ‘Sexual Transmutation’ scare you off. Interesting premise though.)

Glenn Twiddle