The Secret Of Wealth
132 total pages.
The rich are thrifty because that is the way most of them grew rich and they know that thrift pays. The well-to-do are thrifty because that is the way they became well-to-do and got started on the road to wealth. The poor should be thrifty because none of us enjoys being poor, and thrifty habits will lift most poor people out of poverty in a surprisingly short space of time. "An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man} to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful." That is what Thucydides said and he lived 2,300 years ago and the human mind operates much the same way today as it did when he was writing the history of the Greek people. Ovid lived 1,900 years ago but the mind of man still operates in the same way and what he wrote when the Savior was ten years old fits many of us today just as well as it fitted the people of his time. "How blind is the mind of men to fate and future events, how unwilling to practice moderation, when elated with prosperity."--Ovid.
CHAPTER XLIX "No man is rich whose expenditures exceed his means; and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings."--Haliburton. A COMIC poet of Rome who lived about 200 B. C. wailed in his writings about "the good old days," just as we do. Concerning the city of Rome he said: "I only wish the old-fashioned ways and the old-fashioned thriftiness were in greater esteem here.'' The richest man of Athens, about 450 B. C, was a man named Callias who shocked the civilized world by the enormous fortune he gave his granddaughter when she married Alcibiades, the greatest statesman and soldier of the time. How much do you suppose that lavish marriage gift was? A little more than $12,000. We can think of many men in this city who could give a daughter or grand-daughter $12,000 if she were marrying the most distinguished man in our Country.
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The Secret Of Wealth