The Secret Of Wealth
132 total pages.
"In that first year I saved almost $200, and I got 3 per cent interest on every dollar of it all the time it was there. Even the money I deposited a couple of months before the end of the year brought me two months' interest. I did not draw out a cent of what I had deposited, for I was putting my money in the bank to work it--not merely to have it in a safe place for a time.'' A famous millionaire who died several years ago had a keen brain for saving money--different from a keen brain for spending money, or he would not have been a millionaire-and he appreciated thrift in a way that the average individual does not. He asserted that money has actual work to do, and it must be pushed and kept busy every minute of the time. "How few are our real wants! and how easy it is to satisfy them ' Our imaginary ones are boundless and insanable."--Anon.
CHAPTER XLIII "By the elimination of waste have I acquired a competence. I get much happiness from the knowledge that I have wasted nothing."--Geo. W. Childs. THE wealth of the United States is estimated at about 350 billion dollars, and exceeds the combined wealth of France, Japan and Great Britain. In computing the wealth of this Country, there is considered the land, the forests, the mines, and all natural resources except water. Water, the greatest natural source of wealth; greater than all other productivity either on the earth or under the earth; water has been overlooked in our summing up of the wealth of the United States of America. Yet the water of this Country is worth more than all its gold and silver combined. By water we do not mean water power--but water, plain water, water in a tin cup. Without water we would have no wealth. Without water--the water of the rain, the creek, the ocean,--without water rising from the earth and descending again upon the earth--this richgarden of our Country which supports in plenty over 100 millions of people would be a vast and silent desert, broken here and there by naked mountain peaks, and swept over by blizzards of sand.
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The Secret Of Wealth