The Secret Of Wealth
132 total pages.
Sometimes we are unreasonable enough to envy the rich, while most of us are unwilling to even try to do what they have done in order to become rich and to remain rich. Wealthy people usually get their money's worth when they buy because they have long ago learned the lesson of Thrift. Quite poor people are often extravagant buyers, the well-to-do are sometimes careless buyers but the rich are always thrifty; that is how they became rich and that is how they remain rich. "The man who will live above his present circumstances is in great danger of living in a little time much beneath them."--Addison.
CHAPTER VI "Let all your views in life be directed to a solid, however moderate, independence; without it no man can be happy, nor even honest."--Junius. HE measure of a man's freedom and the measure of his independence depends greatly upon the manner in which he orders his own life. The only man who is really free and independent is the man who saves. Youve looked at him and admired him and wondered how he got along so well. The man who is free of debt is usually free of worry and therefore free in reality; he is truly free and independent. Such men are free to work or play, to go or come. They never neglect their work, their play or their families: Such men do not neglect their health because they know how to conserve physical strength and financial strength. They know how to save useless effort and thus conserve their own energy and earning power and, having earned, they know how to save a proper proportion of those earnings against the time when energy will be less and earnings therefore smaller. We hear much talk of personal freedom and independence but personal freedom and personal independence are impossible except to the saver. Each man must earn his own freedom, create his own independence and, having earned them, he knows how to use them and never abuse them.
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The Secret Of Wealth