Book description
True power in this world comes from economic independence, but too many people have too much month left at the end of their money. John Hope Bryant, founder and CEO of Operation HOPE, illuminates the path toward liberation that is hiding in plain sight. His message is simple: the supermajority of people who live in poverty, whom Bryant calls the invisible class, as well as millions in the struggling middle class, haven't gotten “the memo”—until now.Building on his personal experience of rising up from economically disadvantaged circumstances and his work with Operation HOPE, Bryant teaches readers five rules that lay the foundation for achieving financial freedom. He emphasizes the inseparable connection between “inner capital” (mindset, relationships, knowledge, and spirit) and “outer capital” (financial wealth and property). “If you have inner capital,” Bryant writes, “you can never be truly poor. If you lack inner capital, all the money in the world cannot set you free.”
Bryant gives readers tools for empowerment by covering everything from achieving basic financial literacy to investing in positive relationships and approaching wealth with a completely new attitude. He makes this bold and controversial claim: “Once you have satisfied your basic sustenance needs—food, water, health, and a roof over your head—poverty has more to do with your head than your wallet.”
Bryant wants to restore readers' “silver rights,” giving them the ability to succeed and prosper no matter what very real roadblocks society puts in their way. We have more power than we realize, if only we can recognize and claim it. “We are our first capital,” Bryant writes. “We are the CEOs of our own lives.”
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- The Memo
- The Five Simple Rules for Economic Independence
- Getting the Memo
- Rule 1 We Live in a Free-Enterprise System—Embrace It
- Rule 2 Your Mind-Set Makes or Loses Money and Wealth—You Choose
- Rule 3 Your Relationships Are Investments—Build Relationship Capital with Yourself First
- Rule 4 Don’t Just Get a Job—Be Entrepreneurial
- Rule 5 Spiritual Capital Is the Start of True Wealth—Own Your Power
- Conclusion: This is Your Memo
- Resources: So You Got the Memo. Now What?
- Index
- About the Author
- About Operation Hope
Product information
- Title: The Memo
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2017
- Publisher(s): Berrett-Koehler Publishers
- ISBN: 9781523084586
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