The Secret of Getting Rich (Summary – Volume 12/Chapter 13&14)

 

William D. Wattles

Chapter Thirteen:

Getting Into the Right Business:

The different faculties are tools. It is essential to have good tools, but it is also essential that the tools should be used in the right way. The various faculties of your mind are the tools for which you must do the work which is to make you rich.

It will be easier for you to succeed if you get into a business for which you are well equipped with mental tools. But you can get rich in any business.

If you don’t have the right talent, you can develop that talent. It merely means you will have to make your tools as you go along. Instead of confining yourself to the use of those with which you were born.

 

You are learning to think in a certain way…

Chapter Fourteen: 

The Impression of Increase:

Whether you change your vocation or not your action for the present must be those pertaining to those business which you are now engaged.

You can get into the business you want by making constructive use of the business you are already established in; by doing young daily work in a certain way.

All human activity is based on the desire for increase. Every living thing is under the necessity for continuous advancement.

Where the increase of life cease desolation and death sets in at once. Man instinctively knows this, hence he is forever seeking more.

This law of perpetual increase is set forth by Jesus in the parable of the talent. Only those who gained more retained any. From him who hath not, it shall be taken away even that which he hath.

See that you give to everyone in use value greater than the cash value you are taking from them. Take an honest pride in doing this, and let everybody know it and you will have no need of costumers.

Having learned to think in a certain way… 

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