The Secret Of Wealth
132 total pages.
Maybe if we worked like that--in spite of any drawbacks--we, too, would be famous or rich-- or both. The future holds no fewer opportunities than the past. It is more than likely that the near future holds better business opportunities for the man who is out of debt and has a little money on hand than have ever been presented to him in past years. "He is no whole man until he knows how to earn a blameless livelihood."--Emerson. "A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an Important and
indisputable truth.--Sound maxims are the germs of good; strongly
imprinted on the memory they fortify and strengthen the will."--
Joubert.
CHAPTER XL "He who injures one threatens many!' THE total value of all of the products of the mine, the forest and the farm consumed in the United States ranges from 25 to 30 billion dollars annually at present values. Our excess of exports over imports which amounts to from three to five billion dollars accounts for about two billion dollars' worth of these raw materials. As the entire cost of living of all of the people in the United States at present prices amounts to 73 billion dollars annually, it would appear that the value of the raw materials is just about multiplied by three by the time these natural products reach the consumer in the form in which they are to be used--this form may be furniture for the dining room, shoes for the children, implements for the farm or pleasure automobiles. It is an interesting but deplorable fact that, of these original raw materials, about three billion dollars' worth are wasted, thrown away,--wilfully or carelessly destroyed. Some of this waste occurs in the raw material itself and some in the finished products, which means that the probable value of the wasted material at the time it is thrown away is five or six billion dollars each year which is $50 or $60 for every individual in America or about $225 for every family.
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The Secret Of Wealth