The Secret Of Wealth
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The boy wanted the horse worse than he wanted the pony (as his father well knew), so he saved his money another year. Then the father said: "You have enough money to buy the big, black horse now, have you? The most of the young fellows are buying automobiles. If you save a little while longer you can buy a handsome roadster." By the time the money was saved for the automobile, the father pointed out a piece of real estate which could be bought at a bargain and was likely to increase rapidly in value. And by this time the boy was old enough to have the budding desire to become a business man and a capitalist--and when his father showed him how he had been led on, step by step, into accumulating a bank account, through the incentive of always saving his money for the purpose of buying what he wanted very much, he said: "Eh, Dad, it's no wonder you have made a million since you were a boy! I did not dream I was being 'managed,' but you have taught me what no talk would ever have done. "If every boy had a father who was smart enough to lead him on to saving his money-- there'd be more millionaires in the United States than there are sparrows." "He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he that has a great deal left him does to his father's care."--Penn.
CHAPTER XXXVII "Many a man who is calling for help might help himself."--Ed Howe of Atchison. CONTRAST the average country highways and slow farm wagons with the steel tracks and swift trains of the railroad. Which is the cheaper carrier? It costs 1 cent to ship a ton of produce one mile by railroad. It costs 25 cents to haul a ton of produce one mile by wagon over the average country road. It costs more to haul the products of this Country to town than it does to haul the same products from that town to the destined market, even though the distance from the farm to town does not often exceed 10 miles, and tho distance the products are carried by rail is sometimes 1,000 miles or more.
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The Secret Of Wealth