The Secret Of Wealth

There is a pride of ownership in an article which has been long in the family; you have something which you are pleased to show your friends because you acquired it when a child or it belonged to your grandmother.

If we buy of reliable dealers, if we buy the best they have, if we do not buy at all until we can afford the best, if we take care of everything we buy, if we eliminate waste of both money and goods, we will grow rich and we cannot help it.

Money in your pocket is almost spent--money in the bank is a beginning.

"Riches amassed in haste will diminish, but those collected little by little will multiply."--Goethe.

"Those who obtain riches by labor, care, and watching, know their value."--C. Simmons.

"Energy will do anything that can be done in this world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it."--Goethe. 

CHAPTER IV

"Opportunity, sooner or later, comes to all who work and wish."--Lord Stanley.

ROBABLY the greatest opportunity ever presented to those people who work for the money they get is before them just at this time. The opportunity to work and work properly performed are the chief pleasures of life.

No man in factory or field works harder than the baseball player or the football player. No man ever put more muscles into play in driving an ax into a log than are put into action by the golfer when he swings his driver.

Most pleasure is work--real work--and most work can be made a pleasure--real pleasure.

The truly industrious man or woman is seldom unhappy for "Industry keeps the body healthy, the mind clear, the heart whole, and the purse full."

Tired muscles produce healthful sleep whether those muscles were made tired with a baseball bat, a golf club, a hammer or a hoe.

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