3 Quotes & Sayings By Richard Oconnor

Richard O'Connor is a former Senior Editor at Black Enterprise magazine. He is the author of the best-selling book, "African American Millionaire," which was featured in Essence Magazine and has been translated into several languages. His new book, "African American Millionaire 2," takes readers through the process of building a financial empire using an innovative approach that includes his own personal experience and research.

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You know very well what the right choice is, yet you keep making the wrong one. Richard OConnor
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We judge ourselves by our intentions but others by their actions. We tend to think other people's mistakes are caused by character flaws while our mistakes are due to situational factors. "I had a headache on the day of the examine, but he's not very smart." Then we have the opposite. Our good behavior is attributable to fundamental traits while other people's is temporary and situational. "I'm returning this wallet to lost and found because I'm a moral and ethical person. Others do so only if they're seen picking it up." Thus we own our strengths and disavow our weaknesses. This is a big obstetrical to overcoming self-destruction behavior, it justifies all our attempts to deny or put off our need to change and rationalizes the consequences of our actions. . Richard OConnor