The Secret Of Wealth

The Secret Of Wealth

132 total pages.

During the recent days of high prices, high wages and high incomes there have, unfortunately, been quite a few people to whom trying to make ends meet has been a heartbreaking effort.

Many of these people have not been able to make ends meet and probably five to ten per cent of the people have been going behind each month because they were not earning enough to live on.

Just having more money does not increase prices but spending more money does, for the reason that it has increased the demand for certain things while it has not at the same time increased the supply of the same things.

When the majority of the people begin spending more money than usual, the price of things promptly goes higher than usual. Should the majority of the people spend less money than usual, the price of things would immediately go lower than usual.

Wise buying and systematic accumulation make happy lives, comfortable homes and independent futures.

You are the custodian of your own future and the future of your family.

"It should be an indispensable rule in life to contract our desires to our present condition, and whatever may be our expectations to live within the compass of what we actually possess. If we anticipate our good fortune we shall lose the pleasure of it when it arrives, and may possibly never possess what we have so foolishly counted on."--Addison.

CHAPTER XLVI

"Let all your views in life be directed to a solid, however moderate, independence; without it no man can be happy, nor even honest."--Junius.

AS a whole people we are free and independent but, as a family or as individuals, we may be free but many of us are far from independent.

Let us declare ourselves independent of fads and fancies, of foolish customs and expensive habits. An early realization of an independent financial position in the world will be possible to most of us and within easy reach of many of us, if we will decide now, resolutely and with grim determination, to work for future financial independence.