The Secret Of Wealth
132 total pages.
Buying cheaply is not necessarily buying wisely. It may be much better to pay a high price for the thing you want than to pay much less for a makeshift which does not serve the purpose and in the ownership of which you will never be happy. Paying a high price for a perfectly suitable article may avoid paying a low price for three or four articles which would not last as long and would not serve the purpose as well as the one thing which costs the higher price. The needful thing is discrimination in buying with the result that, with such discrimination, there will be less buying. The producers will make as much profit, the manufacturers' profits will be as large or larger, the merchants' profits will be even more satisfactory and every one will be happier as a result. Prosperity may have impaired such little discrimination as we had been accustomed to exercise. Prosperity does not sharpen the wits or develop judgment or discrimination. It is likely to make most of us lose our poise and our perspective. It makes us take more pride in quantity than in quality. This thought finally brings us to a formula, the application of which to our daily lives may extend our period of prosperity, make us happier and more contented by making it possible for us to enjoy everything we have and to have everything we need or may reasonably want. The formula is: Work faithfully; buy carefully; live honestly; and deal fairly with all men. Some of these thoughts may sound, in the jazzy glare of today, a little bit old fashioned, but there is nothing old fashioned about having money and the person who follows these precepts is reasonably sure to have more at the end of the year than when the year began. "it is impossible to live pleasurably without living prudently; and honorably and justly, without living pleasurably."--Epicurus. "There are but jew proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences."--Cervantes.
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The Secret Of Wealth