The Secret Of Wealth
132 total pages.
Take your view-point out and look at it. Look it over as disinterestedly as you can look at your neighbor's view-point. Have you the common-sense idea of thrift? Is thrift associated in your mind with the old families who have had money for generations? If so, then you have discovered the way to get from life what you want. There was never a time when good sense suggested more loudly or clearly the soundness of taking a fresh grip on habits of thrift than now; never a time before when either the individual or the nation had greater need of sincere, substantial and constructive thrift. "He that spareth in everything is an inexcusable niggard. He that spareth in nothing is an inexcusable madman. The mean is to spare in what is least necessary, and to lay out more liberally in what it most required."Halifax
CHAPTER XXVII "That which we acquire with most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are commonly more careful of it than those by whom it may have been inherited." IF ALL money looks alike to you, then you certainly need to train your eye to a better knowledge of its value. Roughly speaking, there are four different kinds of money in common circulation: money that is Got; money that is Made; money that is Earned and money that is Kept. Money that is Kept is by far the most valuable. It is worth a lot more, dollar for dollar, than money Got or money Made. And it is worth considerably more than money Earned. Why is Kept money worth more than any other kind? Because it stays with you longer. Because you are better acquainted with it. You don't mind when a casual acquaintance slips out of your life, but when you lose an intimate friend it hurts. You have learned to place a high value on the friend; the passing acquaintance is a mere incident in your experience.
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The Secret Of Wealth