The Secret of Wealth: A Common Sense Guide to ProsperityTHE 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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... Franklyn Hobbs. The Secret of Wealth An exposition of the philosophy and prac- tice of acquiring wealth and the experience of the ages in the accumulation of money and property . 1 O the one who taught TO me how to save iii.
... Franklyn Hobbs. The Secret of Wealth An exposition of the philosophy and prac- tice of acquiring wealth and the experience of the ages in the accumulation of money and property . 1 O the one who taught TO me how to save iii.
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... Franklyn Hobbs. The Secret of Wealth n AN exposition of the *>-/*□ philosophy and practice of acquiring wealth and the experience of the ages in the accumulation of money and property. in TO the one who taught me how to save my.
... Franklyn Hobbs. The Secret of Wealth n AN exposition of the *>-/*□ philosophy and practice of acquiring wealth and the experience of the ages in the accumulation of money and property. in TO the one who taught me how to save my.
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... accumulate food , to store fuel , to lay away skins for clothing , to hoard the shells which passed for money in his day . Until the human race grasped this idea , people were nothing more than animals , less intelligent than the bees ...
... accumulate food , to store fuel , to lay away skins for clothing , to hoard the shells which passed for money in his day . Until the human race grasped this idea , people were nothing more than animals , less intelligent than the bees ...
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... accumulate skins and weapons and to pass them on to their children . Each generation gave the next one its gains in ... accumulated knowledge of all the millions who have lived and died and turned to dust during the past thousands and ...
... accumulate skins and weapons and to pass them on to their children . Each generation gave the next one its gains in ... accumulated knowledge of all the millions who have lived and died and turned to dust during the past thousands and ...
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... accumulated their money through wise spending and through taking care of the things they possess . The secret of wealth is buying once for all . When we buy , we should buy a thing which will last ; buy something good even though it ...
... accumulated their money through wise spending and through taking care of the things they possess . The secret of wealth is buying once for all . When we buy , we should buy a thing which will last ; buy something good even though it ...
Contents
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 58 - Friends, says he, and Neighbours, the Taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the Government were the only Ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness, three times as much by our Pride, and four times as much by our Folly, and from these Taxes the Commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an Abatement. However let us hearken to good Advice, and something may...
Page 52 - Neither a borrower nor a lender be ; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
Page 197 - I'VE often wish'd that I had clear For life, six hundred pounds a year, A handsome house to lodge a friend, A river at my garden's end, A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land, set out to plant a wood.
Page 34 - Then he goes on to warn his hearers how there is always a counterfeit in this world of the noblest message and teaching. Thus there are two freedoms — the false, where a man is free to do what he likes ; the true, where a man is free to do what he ought.
Page 86 - ... see if you cannot shift with them another year, either by scouring, mending, or even patching if necessary. Remember, a patch on your coat and money in your pocket is better and more creditable than a writ on your back and no money to take it off. 2. When you...
Page 108 - Life is divided into three terms: that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better for the future.
Page 79 - ... it means all that makes for character. It is as much removed from miserliness on the one hand as it is from extravagance on the other. As we build the ideals of thrift, we build character.
Page 34 - To have freedom, is only to have that which is absolutely necessary to enable us to be what we ought to be, and to possess what we ought to possess.
Page 17 - Making a small provision for young men is hardly justifiable ; and it is of all things the most prejudicial to themselves. They think what they have much larger than it really is ; and they make no exertion. The young should never hear any language but this : ' You have your own way to make, and it depends upon your own exertions whether you starve or not.
Page 151 - Let me but do my work from day to day, In field or forest, at the desk or loom, In roaring market-place or tranquil room. Let me but find it in my heart to say, When vagrant wishes beckon me astray, " This is my work; my blessing, not my doom; Of all who live, I am the one by whom This work can best be done in the right way.