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There was a language specific to all things. The ability to learn another language in one arena, whether it was music, medicine, or finance, could be used to accelerate learning and other arenas, too.

Chris Gardner

There was a language specific to all things. The ability to learn another language in one arena, whether it was music, medicine, or finance, could be used to accelerate learning and other arenas, too.

Tags: language, precision, vocabulary

«Más dinero, más problemas».

Chris Gardner

«Más dinero, más problemas».

About Author
Christopher Paul Gardner (born February 9, 1954) is an American businessman and motivational speaker. During the early 1980s, Gardner struggled with homelessness while raising a toddler son. He became a stockbroker and eventually founded his own brokerage firm Gardner Rich & Co in 1987. In 2006, Gardner sold his minority stake in the firm and published a memoir. That book was made into the motion picture The Pursuit of Happyness starring Will Smith.

Then again, what seems like nothing in the eyes of the world, when properly valued and put to use, can be among the greatest riches.

Chris Gardner

Then again, what seems like nothing in the eyes of the world, when properly valued and put to use, can be among the greatest riches.

The world is your oyster. It's up to you to find the pearls.

Chris Gardner

The world is your oyster. It's up to you to find the pearls.

Still a dreamer, yet more of a realist than ever before, I knew this was my time to sail. On the horizon I saw the shining future, as before. The difference now was that I felt the wind at my back. I...

Chris Gardner

Still a dreamer, yet more of a realist than ever before, I knew this was my time to sail. On the horizon I saw the shining future, as before. The difference now was that I felt the wind at my back. I...

Only by acknowledging, Hey, here is where I am, and I’m here because I steered my horse here, can I make the next choice to ride on out to the sunset where I’d really like to be. Or,

Chris Gardner

Only by acknowledging, Hey, here is where I am, and I’m here because I steered my horse here, can I make the next choice to ride on out to the sunset where I’d really like to be. Or,

Sizing up succinctly his lack of formal education compared with his determination to learn from others, the author writes, "I went to college with every person I ever met.

Chris Gardner

Sizing up succinctly his lack of formal education compared with his determination to learn from others, the author writes, "I went to college with every person I ever met.

Tags: curiosity, education, humility

Now I know a lot of us would rather skip over whatever happened back in the day, because it’s painful or obsolete (as some would say), because there’s nothing to do to change it, other than to let it...

Chris Gardner

Now I know a lot of us would rather skip over whatever happened back in the day, because it’s painful or obsolete (as some would say), because there’s nothing to do to change it, other than to let it...

No one ever laid out the sequence of events that led to my mother being prosecuted and imprisoned for alleged welfare fraud.

Chris Gardner

No one ever laid out the sequence of events that led to my mother being prosecuted and imprisoned for alleged welfare fraud.

This is a work of nonfiction. I have rendered the events faithfully and truthfully just as I have recalled them. Some names and descriptions of individuals have been changed in order to respect their...

Chris Gardner

This is a work of nonfiction. I have rendered the events faithfully and truthfully just as I have recalled them. Some names and descriptions of individuals have been changed in order to respect their...

The future was uncertain, absolutely, and there were many hurdles, twists, and turns to come, but as long as I kept moving forward, one foot in front of the other, the voices of fear and shame, the me...

Chris Gardner

The future was uncertain, absolutely, and there were many hurdles, twists, and turns to come, but as long as I kept moving forward, one foot in front of the other, the voices of fear and shame, the me...

Others may question your credentials, your papers, your degrees. Others may look for all kinds of ways to diminish your worth. But what is inside you no one can take from you or tarnish. This is your...

Chris Gardner

Others may question your credentials, your papers, your degrees. Others may look for all kinds of ways to diminish your worth. But what is inside you no one can take from you or tarnish. This is your...

Mr. Gardner, why people gotta keep you down when you have your dream? Again, I was having a long overdue conversation with myself. Well, I said, people who can’t do something themselves, they’re jealo...

Chris Gardner

Mr. Gardner, why people gotta keep you down when you have your dream? Again, I was having a long overdue conversation with myself. Well, I said, people who can’t do something themselves, they’re jealo...

It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson on the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And I remember thinking...

Chris Gardner

It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson on the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And I remember thinking...

If you have a dream and a desire to pursue it with every fiber of your being, but can’t move past excuses or circumstances that seem to be standing in your way, there is a life lesson ahead with your...

Chris Gardner

If you have a dream and a desire to pursue it with every fiber of your being, but can’t move past excuses or circumstances that seem to be standing in your way, there is a life lesson ahead with your...

No matter where you are, only you have dominion over your mind, your beliefs, and your attitudes. So if you look at your situation and let go of excuses or blame, and you choose to believe that you ca...

Chris Gardner

No matter where you are, only you have dominion over your mind, your beliefs, and your attitudes. So if you look at your situation and let go of excuses or blame, and you choose to believe that you ca...

If anybody asks you who you are, tell them you are a child of God. That message translated in such a way that you would never call yourself a slave or tell anyone that you were a child of slaves or th...

Chris Gardner

If anybody asks you who you are, tell them you are a child of God. That message translated in such a way that you would never call yourself a slave or tell anyone that you were a child of slaves or th...

Sometimes the only way we can discover our true power is by living through the crisis we feared. As

Chris Gardner

Sometimes the only way we can discover our true power is by living through the crisis we feared. As

Cualquiera que crea que el dinero lo salva todo, no ha tenido nunca dinero… como yo en aquel tiempo.

Chris Gardner

Cualquiera que crea que el dinero lo salva todo, no ha tenido nunca dinero… como yo en aquel tiempo.

But if you don’t take the necessary steps to make them happen, dreams are just mirages that mess with your head!

Chris Gardner

But if you don’t take the necessary steps to make them happen, dreams are just mirages that mess with your head!