“The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick.”
― The Art of Money Getting: Golden Rules for Making Money
― The Art of Money Getting: Golden Rules for Making Money
“Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed.”
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“It is both relaxing and invigorating to occasionally set aside the worries of life, seek the company of a friendly book...from the reading of 'good books' there comes a richness of life that can be obtained in no other way.”
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“Young men starting in life should avoid running into debt. There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt. It is a slavish position to get ill, yet we find many a young man, hardly out of his "teens," running in debt. He meets a chum and says, "Look at this: I have got trusted for a new suit of clothes." He seems to look upon the clothes as so much given to him; well, it frequently is so, but, if he succeeds in paying and then gets trusted again, he is adopting a habit which will keep him in poverty through life. Debt robs a man of his self-respect, and makes him almost despise himself.”
― The Art of Money Getting: Golden Rules for Making Money
― The Art of Money Getting: Golden Rules for Making Money
“The great ambition should be to excel all others engaged in the same occupation.”
― Art of Money Getting: Golden Rules for Getting Money
― Art of Money Getting: Golden Rules for Getting Money
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