Surprise Yourself

1. Be Active
2. Look for reasons for success at all things
3. Look at yourself, be honest and optimistic
4. Dream
5. Stop dreaming
6. Look for the other side of you attempts, see it, do it
7. Read!  It’s all available in books
8. Believe in ideals, cultural and scientific
9. Avoid debt, become independent
10. Learn how to do things
11. Get worthy friends
12. Come to believe you are worth it
13. Know your business
14. Listen to complaints, they are free market surveys
15. Be optimistic
16. Set goals, daily, yearly, and for life
17. Be honest, develop character
18. Be good at arithmetic, even some financial accounting
19. Think of the other guy

Rules ignited by comment that “behind every successful man is a surprised mother-in-law.”