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\u201cWe\u2019re all emigrants, and if you embrace that emigrant edge, you can have a \u2018rags to riches\u2019 story in whatever area of your life you wish to focus on.\u201d \u2014 Brian Buffini

According to Forbes Magazine, forty percent of the largest companies in the U.S. were founded by immigrants or their children, including Google, Technichron and even our own Buffini & Company. Brian Buffini has studied the \u201crags to riches\u201d stories of other emigrants and found there are seven traits among people who have arrived in America with nothing and went on to achieve success. In this episode, Brian outlines each of the seven traits that all successful emigrants share and offers examples of business leaders who embody the characteristic. You\u2019ll learn about the natural advantages and disadvantages of being an emigrant, why they view opportunity differently than others, and how to incorporate the seven traits into your life and business. This is an episode you\u2019ll want to listen to again and again.

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Inspirational quotes from today\u2019s interview:

\u201cFor 150 years, Ireland\u2019s greatest export has been its people.\u201d \u2014 Brian Buffini

\u201cIf you want to change your life, you have to move from one place to another. In order to grow at all, you have to make a decision as if you\u2019re leaving one place to go to another.\u201d \u2014 Brian Buffini

\u201cAs soon as you start to pursue a dream, everything wakes up and everything has meaning.\u201d \u2014 Barbara Sher in\xa0I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It

\u201cThere\u2019s a divine beauty in learning. Others have been here before me and I walk in their footsteps.\u201d \u2014 Elie Wiesel

\u201cWhen you\u2019re an emigrant, everything is an opportunity, and you see opportunity everywhere.\u201d \u2014 Brian Buffini

\u201cEat the meat and then go after the marrow and the bones.\u201d \u2014 Brian Buffini.

\u201cA man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with\u2014a man is what he makes of himself.\u201d \u2014 Alexander Graham Bell

\u201cAll growth depends on activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.\u201d\u2014 Calvin Coolidge

\u201cGratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.\u201d \u2014 Cicero

\u201cWhen you start the day with the spirit of gratitude, everything else in your day works.\u201d \u2014 Brian Buffini

\u201cWe pinch ourselves every day that this is what we get to do for a living.\u201d \u2014 Jay Wright, Head Coach at Villanova

\u201cThe brave may not live forever, but the cautious don\u2019t live at all.\u201d \u2014 Sir Richard Branson

\u201cThe ability to discipline yourself and delay gratification in the short term, in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.\u201d \u2014 Brian Tracy

\u201cIf you do what is easy, your life will be hard; but if you do what is hard, your life will be easy.\u201d \u2014 Les Brown

\u201cKeep perspective of how far they\u2019ve come. In order to appreciate a mountaintop you have to remember what the valley looks like.\u201d \u2014 Brian Buffini

\u201cSomebody in your life came before you and fought so you could live your life. Someone in your lineage, that you don\u2019t even know, somebody in your life paid a price to give you a better opportunity\u2014what would they do with your opportunity?\u201d \u2014 Brian Buffini

\u201cAt the end of the day we\u2019re all emigrants, and if you embrace that emigrant edge, you can have a \u201crags to riches\u201d story in whatever area of your life you wish to focus on.\u201d \u2014 Brian Buffini

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Emigrant stories, people and other things mentioned in the episode:

• Vivek Ranadiv\xe9, owner of the Sacramento Kings NBA team
• Madeleine Albright, 64thS. Secretary of State
• Sergey Brin, founder of Google
• Peter Petrasek, who along with his wife left all their money to the U.S. Department of Treasury
• Jay Wright, head coach for Villanova University\u2019s men\u2019s basketball team
• The painting \u201cAn Emigrant Ship, Dublin Bay at Sunset\u201d by the artist Edwin Hayes
• Lou Holtz
• Tommy Hopkins
• Zig Ziglar
• Lou Tice
• Stephen Covey
• Og Mandino
• Jim Rohn
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Calvin Coolidge
• Cicero
• Sir Richard Branson
• Brian Tracy
• Les Brown

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