The Secret of Wealth: A Common Sense Guide to Prosperity

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Cosimo, Inc., Nov 1, 2007 - Business & Economics - 240 pages
THE SECRET OF WEALTH, A COMMON SENSE GUIDE TO PROSPERITY is not only a book about how to live a successful and wealthy life, it is-like all classics-a book on how to think. Its timeless wisdom contends that wealth is indeed a state of mind, not the result of extraordinary talents or a lottery windfall. Financial experts Napoleon Hill, Charles Haanel and James Allen, as well as business tycoons John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie have successfully built their immense wealth on the fundamental principles Hobbs describes here. You will learn: how a state of mind and behavior of successful people can be yours how opportunity never stops knocking at your door how to eliminate waste of money and goods how most pleasure is work and how most work can be made a pleasure how to find your proper calling in life how to get money, spend it, and save some of it how to live a free and independent life Before searching for a new job, contemplating a major purchase or making any speculative investments, discover the fundamental principles of THE SECRET OF WEALTH and reap the benefits for greater financial security.

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Section 1
xi
Section 2
xiii
Section 3
23
Section 4
29
Section 5
32
Section 6
44
Section 7
52
Section 8
54
Section 22
134
Section 23
138
Section 24
144
Section 25
147
Section 26
157
Section 27
169
Section 28
170
Section 29
176

Section 9
57
Section 10
63
Section 11
70
Section 12
76
Section 13
78
Section 14
85
Section 15
86
Section 16
92
Section 17
97
Section 18
98
Section 19
115
Section 20
122
Section 21
129
Section 30
181
Section 31
184
Section 32
186
Section 33
193
Section 34
197
Section 35
198
Section 36
204
Section 37
207
Section 38
219
Section 39
228
Section 40
230
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Page 52 - Neither a borrower nor a lender be ; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
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