The Secret Of Wealth
132 total pages.
The story is told of Hugh Chalmers that when he was a fourteen-year-old office boy with the National Cash Register Company, a customer came in while the salesmen were out at lunch. No, not all the salesmen were out. One was there; name, Hugh Chalmers; age, fourteen; experience, none. When the others returned they found the boy had taken a fat order, and his work became so good that at twenty-nine he was making $72,000 per year. He began saving money when he was making only $5 a week, but instead of increasing his expenditures in proportion to his earnings, as many do, he kept his family expenses down to a modest figure, and accumulated capital. Elbert Hubbard wrote his masterpiece, "A Message to Garcia," in one evening after a hard day's work. Most of us rest after a hard day's work. Maybe that's why there are so few masterpieces. H. Gordon Selfridge, the celebrated merchant of London who was born in Ripon, Wis., U. S. A., says work has taught him that: '' Labor is not to be avoided. It is not to be pitied. It should be courted and exalted. Wealth is the product of labor of head and hand." The men and women of this land are going to bless the day when they waked from the wrong idea that idleness is content. They are going "to love work for the happiness it brings"--and after that for the fortune which work puts into a bank account. "Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry, and is as often trundling a wheel-barrow as lolling in a limousine."
CHAPTER LII "When you spend money you part with it forever."--Anon. MAN is the only animal that gives in exchange for what it takes. All other animals take by force or theft. That day, far in the distant past, when man first offered a tiger's skin in exchange for a necklace of shells--instead of killing the wearer of the necklace and taking the trinket--that day man became a man, and master of all other animals.
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The Secret Of Wealth