THOUGHTS ON OPTIMISM "An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity. For myself, I am an optimist; it does not seem to be much use being anything else." --Winston Churchill "Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will." --Norman Vincent Peale "An optimist is someone who goes after Moby Dick in a rowboat and takes the tartar sauce with him." --Zig Ziglar

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- control 55% of the nation's discretionary spending.
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- own 50% of the credit cards.
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