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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Contents
Section 20 | 129 |
Section 21 | 134 |
Section 22 | 138 |
Section 23 | 144 |
Section 24 | 157 |
Section 25 | 169 |
Section 26 | 170 |
Section 27 | 176 |
Section 9 | 63 |
Section 10 | 70 |
Section 11 | 75 |
Section 12 | 76 |
Section 13 | 78 |
Section 14 | 85 |
Section 15 | 86 |
Section 16 | 97 |
Section 17 | 98 |
Section 18 | 115 |
Section 19 | 122 |
Section 28 | 181 |
Section 29 | 184 |
Section 30 | 193 |
Section 31 | 198 |
Section 32 | 204 |
Section 33 | 207 |
Section 34 | 219 |
Section 35 | 228 |
Section 36 | 230 |
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Page 121 - He is an American, who leaving behind him all his ancient prejudices and manners, receives new ones from the new mode of life he has embraced, the new government he obeys, and the new rank he holds. He becomes an American by being received in the broad lap of our great Alma Mater.
Page 121 - Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labours and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world. Americans are the western pilgrims, who are carrying along with them that great mass of arts, sciences, vigour, and industry which began long since in the east; they will finish the great circle.
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