Business Secrets from the Bible

RABBI DANIEL LAPIN is a respected Torah scholar, Jewish leader, radio and television personality, presidential advisor, and author. With radio host Michael Medved, he co-founded the Pacific Jewish Center in Los Angeles. Newsweek named him as one of the top 50 rabbis in America. Rabbi Lapin is the president of the American Alliance of Jews and Christians and has been the headline speaker for hundreds of companies, organizations, churches and synagogues and was the keynote speaker at the Congressional bi-partisan opening of the 106th Congress in Washington, D.C. He is the author of Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money, Buried Treasure, Thought Tools, and Americas Real War.

Introduction xi Secret #1: God Wants Each of Us to Be Obsessively Preoccupied with the Needs and Desires of His Other Children 1 Secret #2: An Infinite God created us in His image with infinite imagination, potential, creative power, and desires 5 Secret #3: Humans Alone Possess the Ability to Transform Themselves 9 Secret #4: The Universe Was Created for Connection 17 Secret #5: Making Money Is a Spiritual Activity 28 Secret #6: Everything Important and Joyful You Have Achieved Has Been in Partnership with at Least One Other Person 35 Secret #7: Focus on Other Peoples Needs and Desires, and You Will Never, Ever Be Short of What You Yourself Desire and Need 44 Secret #8: Become a People Person 53 Secret #9: We Love the People Whom We Help More Than We Love Those Who Help Us 64 Secret #10: Life Isnt About What You KnowIts About Who You Are 71 Secret #11: In Order to Achieve Success, We Must and Can Build Up Our Self-Discipline, Integrity, and Character Strength 80 Secret #12: Your Authentic Identity Requires Other People 92 Secret #13: Know How Business Works; Understand Specialization and Cooperation 96 Secret #14: Each and Every One of Us Is in Business and Should Act Like a Business Professional 107 Secret #15: Develop All Four Dimensions of Your Life Simultaneously 111 Secret #16: Earnings and Profits Are Gods Way of Rewarding Us for Forming Relationships with Others and Serving Them Faithfully and Effectively 121 Secret #17: Raise the Limits on Yourself and Others by Imposing Boundaries and Structures 128 Secret #18: The Importance of Service Is That You Cannot Lead If You Cannot Follow 136 Secret #19: Vision Is Necessary; Sharing That Vision Is Not Always Necessary 140 Secret #20: The Most Important Organ of Leadership Is Your Mouth 146 Secret #21: Change Is Scary 151 Secret #22: As Painful as Change Can Be, It Often Contains the Seeds of Growth 158 Secret #23: Because Change Is a Constant Reality, Life Is More Accurately Depicted by a Video Than a Photograph 162 Secret #24: The More that Things Change, the More We Must Depend Upon Those Things That Never Change 168 Secret #25: Press Forward Even When the Road Ahead Is Not Clear 177 Secret #26: Do Not Let Your Fear Conquer YouPress On 185 Secret #27: Become Strongly, Even Radically, Open to New Directions, Soft Sounds, and Faint Footsteps 190 Secret #28: Use the Power of Words, Sentences, and Sound 198 Secret #29: Feeling Right About Money Makes You Act Right 205 Secret #30: You Can Best Attract That Which You Best Understand 214 Secret #31: You Must Know Your Money, Which You Must Be Able to Measure and Count 219 Secret #32: Money Is Spiritual 223 Secret #33: Dont Live Beyond Your MeansGive Beyond Your Means 233 Secret #34: Giving Money Away Makes You Feel Wealthy 238 Secret #35: How You Feel About Yourself Is How Others Will See You 243 Secret #36: Giving Money Away Automatically Connects Us with Other People 246 Secret #37: If There Is No Hebrew Word for Something, Then That Thing Does Not Exist 254 Secret #38: Retirement Is Unhealthy 261 Secret #39: You Can Ruin Today by Planning Bad Things for Tomorrow 265 Secret #40: Retirement Tends to Isolate You 271 Final Thoughts 283 About the Author 285 Index 287