Business Secrets from the Bible

Transform your finances, by enhancing your relationships and your spiritual powers with this compelling new resource

In the newly revised second edition of Business Secrets from the Bible: Spiritual Success Strategies for Financial Abundance, renowned keynote speaker, consultant, and advisor Rabbi Daniel Lapin delivers an inspiring and practical guide to achieving your financial goals by deploying timeless truths from the Bible. In the book, you'll explore the secrets of creating revenue using timeless spiritual strategies, as well as concrete guidance on developing your self-discipline, integrity, and moral strength.

The author explains how to develop the right financial and spiritual mindsets, showing you effective, Bible-based strategies to improve your life and increase your bottom-line. You'll also find:

• Brand-new updates and revisions to the widely read original, demonstrating how a focus on service and the wellbeing of others will be reflected in your own prosperity
• Hands-on strategies for self-transformation in the face of fear and uncertainty
• How to seed and nurture new relationships that become part of the tapestry of your exciting financial reality

A must-read resource for anyone interested in simultaneously getting closer to God and doing good by doing well. Escalating the financial destiny of readers around the world, Business Secrets from the Bible is the biblical, spiritual, and practical roadmap to prosperity that you have been waiting for.

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 7

Secret #3: Humans Alone Possess the Ability to Transform Themselves 11

Secret #4: The Universe Was Created for Connection 20

Secret #5: Making Money Is a Spiritual Activity 31

Secret #6: Everything Important and Joyful You Have Achieved Has Been in Partnership with at Least One Other Person 38

Secret #7: Focus on Other People’s Needs and Desires and You Will Never, Ever Be Short of What You Yourself Desire and Need 46

Secret #8: Become a People Person 56

Secret #9: We Love the People Whom We Help More Than We Love Those Who Help Us 68

Secret #10: Life Isn’t About What You Know—It’s About Who You Are 75

Secret #11: In Order to Achieve Success, We Must and Can Build Up Our Self-Discipline, Integrity, and Strength of Character 84

Secret #12: Your Authentic Identity Requires Other People 95

Secret #13: Know How Business Works; Understand Specialization and Cooperation 100

Secret #14: Every One of Us Is a Business Professional 111

Secret #15: Develop Four Dimensions of Your Life Simultaneously 115

Secret #16: Serve Authentically 125

Secret #17: Enhance Your Potential by Imposing Boundaries and Structure 133

Secret #18: You Cannot Lead If You Cannot Follow 141

Secret #19: Vision Is Necessary; Sharing That Vision Is Not Always Necessary 145

Secret #20: The Most Important Organ of Leadership Is Your Mouth 153

Secret #21: Recognizing What You Can’t Do 159

Secret #22: As Painful as Change Can Be, It Often Contains the Seeds of Growth 163

Secret #23: Because Change Is a Constant Reality, Life Is More Accurately Depicted by a Video Than a Photograph 169

Secret #24: The More That Things Change, the More We Must Depend Upon Those Things That Never Change 176

Secret #25: Press Forward Even When the Road Ahead Is Not Clear 185

Secret #26: Do Not Let Fear Conquer You—Press On 194

Secret #27: Become Strongly, Even Radically, Open to New Directions, Soft Sounds, and Faint Footsteps 201

Secret #28: Use the Power of Words, Sentences, and Sound 207

Secret #29: Feeling Right About Money Makes You Act Right 215

Secret #30: You Can Best Attract What You Best Understand 224

Secret #31: You Must Know Your Money, Which You Must Be Able to Measure and Count 229

Secret #32: Money Is Spiritual 233

Secret #33: How You Feel About Yourself Is How Others Will See You 241

Secret #34: The Surprising Benefits of Charity 247

Secret #35: Giving Money Away Connects Us with Other People 251

Secret #36: Ideas Hit Reality 259

Secret #37: If There Is No Hebrew Word for Something, Then That Thing Does Not Exist 269

Secret #38: Retirement Is Unhealthy 275

Secret #39: How You Think About Tomorrow Affects How You Behave Today 279

Secret #40: The Three Most Important Words: Relationships, Relationships, Relationships 285

Final Thoughts 297

About the Authors 299

Did You Enjoy this Book? 301

Index 309

RABBI DANIEL LAPIN and SUSAN LAPIN are media personalities, speakers, and authors with a passion for teaching ancient Jewish life principles extracted from the Bible, making them accessible to folks of every background. International audiences regard the Lapins’ work as entertaining, enlightening, and life-changing.

Despite the universality of biblical wisdom, many people struggle to incorporate the Bible’s timeless lessons into their finances. There is an idea shared by some that the world’s holiest script is somehow unsuited or irrelevant to everyday affairs of the pocketbook. Nothing could be further from the truth.

In the freshly updated Second ­Edition of Business Secrets from the Bible: Spiritual Success Strategies for Financial Abundance, speaker, writer, and spiritual leader Rabbi Daniel Lapin, and his wife Susan, deliver a powerful and effective message about aligning your strategies for financial success with biblical truths. In the book, you’ll explore key, timeless concepts from the Bible and apply them to the way you earn money and achieve personal prosperity.

You’ll learn how to find success in the realms of finance by developing your self-discipline, integrity, and character strength. You’ll also discover how establishing a positive attitude toward making money can have a transformative impact on your ability to realize your dreams in the here-and-now.

Business Secrets from the Bible contains brand-new updates and revisions to the widely read original, showing you how a focus on service and the well-being of others can be reflected in your own prosperity. It also contains hands-on strategies for self-transformation in the face of fear and uncertainty, as well as techniques for nurturing new relationships that become part of the tapestry of your new financial reality.

An essential resource for everyone interested in simultaneously getting closer to God and doing good by doing well, Business Secrets from the Bible is the biblical, spiritual, and practical roadmap to prosperity that you’ve been waiting for. It is bound to escalate the financial destiny of readers around the world.

Discover what the Bible really has to say about money

In the newly revised Second Edition of Business Secrets from the Bible: Spiritual Success Strategies for Financial Abundance, renowned Rabbi Daniel Lapin and his wife Susan, propose an exciting, new way to view and approach success — one based on key concepts from the Bible that are actually surprisingly simple. Written specifically for those seeking success in the realm of money, this book encourages readers to realize their mistakes, accept them, and turn those mistakes into future triumphs.

For thousands of years the Bible has guided its enthusiasts in all their endeavors, and finance is no exception. With their knowledge of ancient Jewish wisdom, Rabbi Daniel Lapin and his wife Susan, have extracted 40 business secrets from the pages of humanity’s most trusted volume. In Business Secrets from the Bible, the Lapins teach these timeless truths with clarity so you can apply them to business and beyond.

Taking a practical approach, Business Secrets from the Bible aims to change not just the minds, but the actions of readers with a powerful and persuasive message. It’s an essential read for anyone looking for a more spiritual and fulfilling approach to business success