The Secret of Wealth: A Common Sense Guide to Prosperity

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Cosimo, Inc., Nov 1, 2007 - Business & Economics - 244 pages
THE SECRET OF WEALTH, A COMMON SENSE GUIDE TO PROSPERITY is not only a book about how to live a successful and wealthy life, it is-like all classics-a book on how to think. Its timeless wisdom contends that wealth is indeed a state of mind, not the result of extraordinary talents or a lottery windfall. Financial experts Napoleon Hill, Charles Haanel and James Allen, as well as business tycoons John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie have successfully built their immense wealth on the fundamental principles Hobbs describes here. You will learn: how a state of mind and behavior of successful people can be yours how opportunity never stops knocking at your door how to eliminate waste of money and goods how most pleasure is work and how most work can be made a pleasure how to find your proper calling in life how to get money, spend it, and save some of it how to live a free and independent life Before searching for a new job, contemplating a major purchase or making any speculative investments, discover the fundamental principles of THE SECRET OF WEALTH and reap the benefits for greater financial security.
 

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Contents

Section 1
xi
Section 2
23
Section 3
29
Section 4
32
Section 5
44
Section 6
52
Section 7
54
Section 8
57
Section 20
129
Section 21
134
Section 22
138
Section 23
144
Section 24
157
Section 25
169
Section 26
170
Section 27
176

Section 9
63
Section 10
70
Section 11
75
Section 12
76
Section 13
78
Section 14
85
Section 15
86
Section 16
97
Section 17
98
Section 18
115
Section 19
122
Section 28
181
Section 29
184
Section 30
193
Section 31
198
Section 32
204
Section 33
207
Section 34
219
Section 35
228
Section 36
230
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Page ii - In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality ; that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.

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