The Secret Of Wealth

"The law of nature is: do the thing and you shall have the power; but they who do not the thing have not the power."

"Plan for Saving One Hundred Thousand Pounds":

"My advice on this head shall cost you nothing; and if you will not be angry with me for giving it, I promise you not to be offended if you do not take it.

"1. When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones, and see if you cannot shift with them another year.

"2. When you are inclined to buy China ware, chintzes, India silks, or any other of their flimsy slight manufactures, I would not be so bad with you as to insist on your absolutely resolving against it; all I advise is, to put it off till another year; and this, in some respects, may prevent an occasion of repentance." These words from Benjamin Franklin. Also--

"Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it."--Franklin. 

CHAPTER XXIV

"How blind is the mind of men to fate and future events, how unwilling to practice moderation, when elated with prosperity."--Ovid.

AMERICA might almost be renamed "The Waster's Paradise." The greatest crime we have to deal with as a people is criminal waste.

Waste is criminal because the thing you throw away might save a life and, if thrown away, may be responsible for the loss of that life.

It is hard to believe that just about one-half of all the things that. America produces serves any useful purpose--the other half is used to no purpose or wasted.

It is not only the American garbage pail which is accountable for this waste. The waste begins in the field, the forest or the mine where the raw material is produced.

The waste continues through the transportation of the raw material to the factory and through the several manufacturing processes.

The waste is then carried on in the transportation of the article to the distributor or wholesaler and may still be found in the merchandising methods and delivery systems of the retailer.

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