The Secret Of Wealth

"You don't know how familiar that talk sounds to me, young man; I expect I have said those very same words at least a hundred times--but later on I learned a lot that I had not yet found out when I was talking and thinking the way you are now. So will you. So does every man who accumulates a home and sufficient property to keep himself and his family in comfort. I work every day even now, because I like it, but if I quit work tomorrow my money would go right on earning a good living for me. My dollars began working for me as soon as I began to save them. I got my dollars good positions at good salaries, and they are really the workers who have earned my nice home for me, and earned that new car in the garage in my back yard. I never could have done it if I had depended wholly upon my own work. My hands and brain earned a good livable salary, but I needed more than my earnings in order to buy a home and have the luxuries which I enjoy, so I put some of my earnings at work every month earning more income for me."

"But------ interposed the young listener, "the cost of living in these days is--------- "

"Yes, and the cost of living is going higher, too," replied the elder man, in a voice of conviction. "How do you know that your earnings will increase proportionately? As a matter of fact, your lack of financial backing is greatly responsible for your not being already further advanced than you are on the pay roll of your firm. You may not believe it--and you, perhaps, will not know it until you have a fund to which you are adding regularly--but there would be a surprising difference in your value to your employers and in your ability to command a higher salary if you had the confident, assured bearing which comes from the knowledge that you have money."

He stopped--smiled kindly--and then waived his auditors away: "All right! I know advice is cheap. But I am passing along to you the things which I have found out are true, and I found them out only after long, hard knocks of experience. You can take them or leave them--but I hope you will take them--they made the difference to me between poverty and prosperity, and they will do the same for you.''

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