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The Magic of Thinking BigBook

by David J. Schwartz

Who uses, recommends or left The Magic of Thinking Big, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Mr. Money Mustache
Pen name of the Canadian-American writer behind mrmoneymustache.com, a long-running blog on frugality, early retirement and index-fund investing.
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And finally, a really, really old fashioned book if someone just wants to wake themselves up and start turning into more of a positive, less depressed person is this 1950s classic called The Magic of Thinking Big. I’ve recommended that to so many friends, because I stumbled across it when I was like 15 years old, and it was really, really old even then.

The Tim Ferriss Show #221, Mr. Money Mustache; asked for the books that most influenced them or that they recommend most. The guest's own words in the transcript Tim Ferriss published on tim.blog.

2018-06-01·tim.blog ↗

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

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