How to Get Ahead Financially

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Harper & brothers, 1926 - 172 trang
 

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Trang 78 - Remember that money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on. Five shillings turned is six ; turned again it is seven and threepence ; and so on till it becomes a hundred pounds. The more there is of it, the more it produces every turning, so that the profits rise quicker and quicker. He that kills a breeding sow, destroys all her offspring to the thousandth generation. He that murders a crown, destroys all that it might have produced,...
Trang 92 - If you want to know whether you are destined to be a success or failure in life, you can easily find out. The test is simple and it is infallible: Are you able to save money? If not, drop out. You will lose. You may think not, but you will lose as sure as you live. The seed of success is not in you.
Trang 84 - Extravagance rots character; train youth away from it. On the other hand, the habit of saving money, while it stiffens the will, also brightens the energies. If you would be sure that you are beginning right, begin to save.
Trang 92 - If you want to know whether you are going to be a success or a failure in life, you can easily find out. The test is simple and infallible. Are you able to save money? If not, drop out. You will lose. You may not think it, but you will lose as sure as you live. The seed of success is not in you.
Trang 98 - insurance is a provision made by a group of persons, each singly in danger of some loss, the incidence of which can not be foreseen, that when such loss shall occur to any of them, it shall be distributed over the whole group" Insurance is evidently a method well adapted to mitigate the destructive effects of illness.
Trang 4 - Thrift is so essential to happiness in this world, that the failure to practice it, is, to me, incomprehensible. It is such an easy, simple thing, and it means so much. It is the foundation of success in business, of contentment in the home, of standing in society.
Trang 43 - Teach economy. That is one of the first and highest virtues. It begins with saving money.
Trang 51 - The best way to accumulate money is to resolutely save and bank a fixed portion of your income, no matter how small the amount.
Trang 13 - It is not too much to say that almost the whole of what we call civilization is the difference between saving what we make today for use on the morrow, and exhausting it at the time we receive it. And whenever we find a people with sufficient self-control, sufficient balance, sufficient thrift and industry to save their money and increase their capital, there you may be altogether certain that civilization will make progress.
Trang 20 - Saving is the first great principle of all success. It creates independence, it gives a young man standing, fills him with vigor, it stimulates him with the proper energy; in fact, it brings to him the best part of any success — happiness and contentment.

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