Charles J. Givens (1941–98) was a bestselling author of two books, Wealth Without Risk and Financial Self Defense. Givens founded the Charles J. Givens Organization that grew to over 450,000 members. He frequently appeared on nationally syndicated daytime television shows to promote his “financial strategies” and hosted a weekly radio program with self named “Christian Financial Planner” James L. Paris. At his peak Givens extravagant lifestyle was profiled on the popular television program Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. His organization collapsed after a number of lawsuits, and regulatory investigations of investments sold by Paris, central Florida radio personality Jack Dicks, and former vacuum cleaner salesman Charles C Smith Jr..
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Doing more of what doesn’t work won’t make it work any better.
—Charles J. Givens
Topics: Doing, Better, Work
Success with money, family, relationships, health, and careers is the ability to reach your personal objectives in the shortest time, with the least effort and with the fewest mistakes. The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.
—Charles J. Givens
Topics: Success, Goals, Success & Failure
Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.
—Charles J. Givens
Topics: Success & Failure, Success
Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.
—Charles J. Givens
Topics: Failure
Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.
—Charles J. Givens
Topics: Habits, Habit
The more specific and measurable your goal, the more quickly you will be able to identify, locate, create, and implement the use of the necessary resources for its achievement.
—Charles J. Givens
Topics: Goals
To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.
—Charles J. Givens
Topics: The Past, Design, Past
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