Acres of Diamonds by Russell H. Conwell

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/rconwellacresofdiamonds.htm “Young man, remember if you know what people need you have gotten more knowledge of a fortune than any amount of capital can give you.” “Your wealth is too near to you. You are looking right over it.”

Us and them

Take care with this “us and them”. The division of “us and them” helps you sleep at night. For it’s the only way you can treat other people less than human beings. The rules that you make for “them”, in time, may become the rules for us, you. For these same rules may spread to… Continue reading Us and them

Do what works for you

The next time someone is explaining how they became successful, listen very closely. It sounds like they are reading out their DNA sequence. Of course they are successful, they are basically telling you who they are. And this is the take home message, you don’t become successful by becoming other people. You don’t become as… Continue reading Do what works for you