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A JOURNEY, NOT A DESTINATION
I didn’t start out with sound principles for success. I acquired them over a lifetime of experiences, mostly from making mistakes and learning from other people who knew things I couldn’t yet see. I used these tools and tactics to elevate myself from the depths of poverty to a level of success that I once only dreamed about. Most would agree that I’m about as rags-to-riches as you’ll find anywhere. Starting with only a few thousand dollars and a meager eighth-grade education (yes, I dropped out of school at age 15), I parlayed the only things I had—a dream and the willingness to learn and persist—into a personal fortune, becoming a multimillionaire from stock trading by the age of 31.
Then, in 1997, I set out to prove I was one of the best stock traders in the world. I put up $250,000 of my own hard-earned capital (money I had built up from just a few thousand dollars) and entered the prestigious U.S. Investing Championship, a real-money investment derby where some of the best in the business went head-to-head trading stocks, options, and futures. The rules were simple: The investor with the biggest percentage return on his or her money after one full calendar year of trading won.
Twelve months later I was crowned U.S. Investing Champion. My stock account was up 155 percent (turning my $250,000 into $637,500), a percentage return that beat out hundreds of the best money managers in America. Then I started my own Wall Street firm, where I was up against full-blown pedigrees: graduates of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, with a tradition of keeping out “street” guys like me. Despite these barriers, I believed success was possible, and despite my lack of traditional qualifications, I became one of the most accomplished stock traders in the world. I’ve had the privilege to advise some of the biggest institutions in America and interesting clients all around the globe, and I’ve even had the honor to speak at major universities and author three books, all of which were best-sellers and were translated into six languages. Today, my coaching workshops and investment seminars attract people from all over the world who want to learn my approach to winning. Best of all, I enjoy great success doing what I love.
I say this not to boast, but because my success has played a major role in how I got to be here, affording me the privilege to be in a position to do what is my ultimate purpose: to inspire others.
People often ask me, “How did you do it?” I can assure you it wasn’t because of my uniqueness as a person, natural talent, or some lucky break. It was the direct result of changing my thinking and adopting a mindset that engrained in me a winning approach. I believe in this process so deeply, I’ve dedicated nearly two years of my life to capturing all I have learned and distilling it into this book you’re holding in your hands right now.
Consider the possibility that you picked up this book not by accident or coincidence, but deliberately, because you’re ready to give yourself permission to pursue your dreams and follow the path you always wanted to take. And if you need an example of someone who started out with less than you have right now, here I am.
A JOURNEY, NOT A DESTINATION我一开始并没有成功的原则。这些原则是我在一生中的经历中逐渐获得的，主要是通过犯错和向那些比我更了解事情的人学习。我使用这些工具和策略将自己从贫困的深渊中提升到我曾经只梦想过的成功水平。大多数人会同意，我是你所能找到的最典型的白手起家者。起初只有几千美元和一份简陋的八年级教育（是的，我15岁就辍学了），我将我唯一拥有的东西——一个梦想和愿意学习和坚持的意愿——转化为个人财富，在31岁时通过股票交易成为百万富翁。然后，在1997年，我着手证明自己是世界上最好的股票交易者之一。我投入了自己辛苦赚来的25万美元（这些钱只是从几千美元开始积累起来的），并参加了著名的美国投资锦标赛，这是一个真正的金钱投资比赛，其中一些业界最优秀的人进行股票、期权和期货的交易对决。规则很简单：投资者在一整年的买卖后，谁的资金回报率最高，谁就是赢家。十二个月后，我成为了美国投资冠军。我的股票市场账户增长了155％（将我的25万美元变成了63.75万美元），这个百分比回报率超过了美国数百名最好的资金经理。然后我创办了自己的华尔街公司，在那里我与完全成熟的背景竞争：哈佛、耶鲁和普林斯顿的毕业生，他们有着排斥像我这样的“街头”人士的传统。尽管存在这些障碍，我相信成功是可能的，尽管我缺乏传统的资格，但我成为了世界上最成功的股票交易者之一。我曾有幸为美国一些最大的机构和全球各地的客户提供建议，甚至有幸在主要大学发表演讲并撰写了三本畅销书，它们被翻译成六种语言。今天，我的培训研讨会和投资研讨会吸引了来自世界各地的人们，他们想学习我赢得胜利的方法。最重要的是，我喜欢做我所爱的事情并取得巨大的成功。我说这些并不是为了自夸，而是因为我的成功在我如何到达这里的过程中起到了重要作用，使我有机会实现我最终的目标：激励他人。人们经常问我：“你是怎么做到的？”我可以向你保证，这并不是因为我作为一个人的独特性、天赋或某些幸运的机会。这是改变我的思维方式并采用一种为我灌输获胜方法的心态的直接结果。我对这个过程中如此深信不疑，以至于我花了近两年的时间来记录我所学到的一切并将其提炼成你现在手中的这本书。考虑到你可能不是偶然或巧合地拿起这本书，而是出于故意，因为你已经准备好给自己许可去追求自己的梦想并走上你一直想走的道路。如果你需要一个比你目前所拥有的更少的例子，那么我就在这里。如果我做到了，那么你也能做到。
（内容由讯飞星火AI生成）
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