Great Throughts Treasury

"The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually became wealthy clearly reveals that their "luck" arose from accidental dedication they had to an arena they enjoyed."

"What looks like a loss may be the very event which is subsequently responsible for helping to produce the major achievement of your life."

"Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curve of most of those who eventually became millionaires was the reverse; their income increased slowly, if at all, for many years. And then, after two to three decades, it suddenly went through the roof."

"The evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money."