The Secret of Wealth

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Cosimo, Inc., Jan 1, 2005 - Business & Economics - 236 pages
According to Franklyn Hobbs, the secret of wealth is no secret and it isn't new. As he points out, "for more than 2,000 years, it has been understood that the person who was poor and let it be known, and made little or no effort to rise above poverty, was largely responsible for his own unhappy condition." In this book, Hobbs explains exactly how to take responsibility for one's own financial well-being. "Wealth is a state of mind or perhaps 'twould be better to say that wealth is created through a state of mind.. The acquiring of money and property, once begun, is a simple and easy process; growing rich comes through habits that are such fixed parts of one's daily life that, once on the road to wealth, it would be quite difficult, if not wholly impossible, to stop the growth."

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Section 22
129
Section 23
134
Section 24
138
Section 25
141
Section 26
144
Section 27
147
Section 28
157
Section 29
169

Section 9
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Section 10
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Section 11
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Section 12
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Section 13
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Section 14
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Section 15
78
Section 16
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Section 17
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Section 18
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Section 19
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Section 20
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Section 21
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Section 30
170
Section 31
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Section 32
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Section 33
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Section 34
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Section 35
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Section 36
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Section 37
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Section 38
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Section 39
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Section 40
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