The Secret Of Wealth
132 total pages.
Every time one looks at a bank it hammers home the fact that millions of people know it pays to save money--some of us lose sight of the fact occasionally, that's all. A rich man tells the story of his beginning in making a fortune. "My wife and I started saving pennies,'' he said. '' We put away in an empty glass fruit jar every penny we got in change--no other coins went into the jar, just copper pennies, and until the jar was full we kept it in sight where we could see it gradually filling closer and closer to the top. We made it a rule that we would never take a single cent out of the jar for any reason, and we both schemed to get pennies in change. In six months we had four thousand two hundred and fifteen pennies, so we opened a bank account with the four thousand pennies--forty dollars. Then we began all over again, with the fruit jar containing the two hundred pennies for a nest egg. In one year we had saved one hundred and ten dollars." "It is not high living expenses but living high expenses that eat up your surplus."--James J. Hill.
CHAPTER XXXIV "Without economy none can be rich, and with it few will be poor."--Johnson, ONE miracle of the World War and one which we were very much in need of was the change in people's ideas of thrift. Thrift has become popular--fashionable. It is no longer falsely associated with poverty. Every one sees that thrift is a new vision of real living and intelligence, and that waste is the cloak of poverty or ignorance. They have condemned waste as a crime against one's family, and an offense against the whole community in which one lives. A waster quickly finds out that he or she is " in bad." They have chucked away the old embalmed ideas of what they "must have" and are so glad to be rid of these nuisances that they will never again be saddled with them.
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The Secret Of Wealth