The Way to Wealth (Illustrated)

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

I included under thirteen names of virtues all that at that time occurred to me as necessary or desirable, and annexed to each a short precept, which fully expressed the extent I gave to its meaning. These names of virtues, with their precepts, were: 1. Temperance. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. 2. Silence. Speak not but what may bene

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

Every human being who reaches the age of understanding of the purpose of money, wishes for it. Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.

Celui qui perd cinq shillings perd plus que cette somme ; il perd aussi tous les avantages dont il pourrait bénéficier s’il les investissait, c’est-à-dire qu’ils se transforment en quelques décennies en une considérable quantité d’argent.