The Secret Of Wealth
132 total pages.
"Independency may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance; I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his fortune."--Shenstone. Nobody ever saw so many opportunities as there are today. "Work seeks the man. Never before was it so easy for every one to make money. This is the wage-earner's day. He is receiving 30 to 100 per cent more cash income than he ever received before. He has become a more valuable part of the national machinery--that is why he receives more money--and It has made a change not only in his financial but also his psychological condition. He feels worth while. He commands respect. He looks upon his work with new eyes and in a new mood. He has risen to the place where he not only does what he is told to do, but what he sees should be done. Here's another important thing--save your strength. These are excitable times. A man works at high speed. When his work is ended at night he needs rest, not excitement. Our great financiers who work fourteen hours a day, who are so busy that appointments are made for them to interview callers when they are going up or down in an elevator, or riding on the train between their offices and homes, or whirling in a motor car from one directors' meeting to another -- these men, working under the highest pressure, do not seek "relaxation" in the clubs, restaurants or theatres. They are found going direct from their work to their homes; spending every spare moment in country rest and quiet, with their families. This is the only way they can restore their fagged brains and bodies; the only way they can renew the strength which makes it possible to work hard all day and late into the night, and yet enter the office in the morning fresh for a new day's grind. A man who works with his hands all day is just as exhausted at night as these wizards who work with their brains. A mechanic's flesh and blood is no more resistant to weariness than that of the president of a railroad. The man who works for a daily wage needs the same quiet and rest to create new vitality as the man who "bosses" a steel mill.
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The Secret Of Wealth