4 Quotes & Sayings By Lawrence Blair

Lawrence Blair is a former investment banker, a former teacher and professor of economics, a successful entrepreneur and a self-made millionaire. He is the author of the number one bestselling book, The Millionaire Next Door. Blair's research shows that most successful people have a number of common traits including: 1) They don't spend much time at their jobs; 2) They take the time to think before acting; 3) They admire other people who are more industrious than they are; and 4) They live below their means.

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It was at Long Huruk that we encountered the vortex of the dream time of which we had so far only touched the periphery, for this was the semi-nomadic community of mystics and dream wanderers. Lawrence Blair
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The Bird of Paradise, it seemed, had beckoned us on and led us in, to stand here in this place high in the land of volcanoes. It was here in Bali, after returning from the Toraja Star Children, that I first recognized what they meant by us all being born half of heaven and half of earth. And after the mounted warsports of Sumba it was in Balinese ritual that I saw with new eyes the battle for balance between light and darkness. And after Borneo, returning to the sacred Banyan tree and its simian custodians, I had felt that all great trees, what’s left of them, do indeed link heaven and earth in a single forest of life. . Lawrence Blair
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Totally isolated from our own culture for long periods, we became vulnerable to forgotten times and tribes re-awakening within us. Our journeys, we found, were to take us simultaneously to some of the least-charted regions of the planet and to the least-charted regions of our own minds. What began for us as the effort to capture a purely objective record of what we saw gradually dissolved into a quest, an odyssey of self-discovery which actually took place amongst the last of the lands of real living kings and queens, dragons and pirates, cannibals and headhunters, mystics and magicians. Lawrence Blair