The Prosperity & Wealth Bible - Kahlil Gibran

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business is or how many Ancestors you may have had. You must have the business of Smiling absolutely mastered. And we don’t want Smilers who have learned to Smile but a part of the day or on “set” occasions.

      We want the Chronic Smilers. We have a job for you. We ask for One Thousand. We really want every one that we can get. We ask for MEN Smilers. But we actually want just as many WOMEN Smilers.

      When do we want them? Now. Where do we want them? Everywhere. Who wants them? Everybody. What for? To make this world the best possible world in which to live.

      APPLY — at your own Home or living Place, your Office, or on the Street — wherever your Face takes you. But keep your SMILE with you. For without it — none need apply.

      Books

      Find out what Books your Friend reads and you’ll know what manner of man or woman you have for a Friend. Books contain the wisdom — as well as the foolishness of the ages. The greatest thoughts, the deepest experiences, the results of the most profound and prolonged experiments, are all embalmed in books.

      Grow useful from Books.

      The Character of a man is shown by the Books he selects. The Character of a Nation is largely determined by the Books that its men and women read. The wealth of the world is in its Books, not in its Gold and Silver and precious Stones and Structures and Lands.

      Grow useful from Books.

      Good books are real. They are cross sections of life. They tell the truth and conceal nothing. You take or leave what such a book teaches. You know, without asking, its true value. You think, act, walk, work — live with it. For the time you are of it — a part. You live over the thought that the writer lived. Though long years in his grave — again he breathes, and warmth is in his blood again. How marvelous is a Book!

      Grow useful from Books.

      Good Books make sympathy a world trait. Progress is but the accumulation of Book power. With books gone the world would rot away. Good Books will put Poetry and Music into your smallest efforts.

      Grow useful from Books.

      The world’s greatest doers have been the world’s greatest readers. “Read again,” said Napoleon to an officer on board the ship that was taking him into exile forever, “read again the poets; devour Ossian. Poets lift up the soul, and give to man a colossal greatness.”

      Grow useful from Books.

      Read Good Books regularly and systematically. Learn Books. Love Books. LIVE Books.

      Radiate

      The most useful body in the heavens is the Sun. It keeps the world out of continual darkness. It Radiates its greatest gift — Light. Also it Radiates its heat — keeps this old Earth warm. Take a lesson from the Sun —

      Radiate you Influence.

      Make it worth Radiating. Radiate it to your Friends. Radiate it to your Office Helpers. Radiate it in your Public Position. Radiate it through your own approval, and take to heart the responsibility that gives you the chance to make your Influence.

      Radiate your Smiles.

      For Smiles and Cheer are the greatest stimulators in the world. You don’t have to speak to Radiate Smiles and Cheer. They shoot their rays of warmth and healing and encouragement from the very lines of your Face and the very movements of your body.

      Radiate your Knowledge.

      Do it to a high purpose. Knowledge kept is of no value whatever. The only Knowledge worth having is what you give away. What Knowledge you get, Radiate.

      Radiate your Money.

      Earn it honestly and well. Then Radiate it to useful ends. Divide it with the faithful workers who helped you make it. Money is a most useless thing in itself. Its total value lies in what it Radiates in hopeful enterprises and noble works.

      Radiate your Success.

      There is nothing so stimulating, to a real Winner as to hand out the secrets and formulas of Success that he has learned. Nature works in rotation. So does a man’s Success. What is yours to-day is the other fellow’s to-morrow. Your service is to keep the law — to Radiate to-day what came to you yesterday. For the whole rule of life and Success is to Radiate — To Radiate.

      Courtesy

      To some Courtesy may seem a Lost Art, little worth bringing back. But it is not. Courtesy is one of the Old Time Arts that dies only with the Man or the Business. For the rise of many a Man and Business has started with it.

      Take time to be Courteous.

      Emerson once wrote: “Give a boy address and accomplishments, and you give him the mastery of Palaces and Fortunes wherever he goes.” Courtesy is of more value to a man than a thousand letters of written recommendations. Courtesy is an asset of more power than Money or Influence.

      Take time to be Courteous.

      A few years ago, a young man by the name of Wallace stood behind a Railroad office window in Oil City, Pennsylvania, as a Ticket Agent. But he didn’t stay there ALL the time. When he saw a chance to render a Courteous favor by delivering tickets direct to a customer, he delivered the tickets. Also, he sought out new ways of giving service. Business grew. A bigger job came after him. Then a bigger one. To-day, still a young man, he is General Passenger Agent for the entire Erie Railroad. He may be its President some day. He owes his career to Courtesy.

      Take time to be Courteous.

      Courtesy lightens the burdens of toil. Courtesy demands respect. Courtesy is a little brother to Opportunity and follows her around through the hours of the busy day. Courtesy always leads a man higher up.

      Take time to be Courteous.

      The Courteous Office Boy, the Courteous Clerk, the Courteous Stenographer, the Courteous Manager, the Courteous Leader at heavy tasks — whoever heard of such a one not growing, not climbing into greater things? Think over these truths. For it is tremendously worthwhile to —

      Take time to be Courteous.

      Aim

      Have a definite purpose — Aim.

      The secret of all Winning is the unyielding fight toward a definite Ideal or Plan. A man with a set Aim and the courage to follow in its path cannot Fail. In fact, what you Aim to be, you already are — potentially.

      Have a definite purpose — Aim.

      The first efforts of John Keats were laughed to scorn by his critics, but he paid no attention to them, for he was certain of his ability and hardly was the ink on their criticisms dry before he handed them his marvelous poem Endymion. “I was never afraid of failure,” said he, “for I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.” Keats was but twenty-six years of age when he died — a mere boy! But he had a world fame — he had achieved his Aim.

      Have a definite purpose — Aim.

      Washington lost more battles than he won. But his Aim for Independence was achieved. People marvel at the election to the Presidency of Woodrow Wilson — a Schoolmaster. But those who know the man, know that he has been preparing for this exalted office for a quarter of a century — not Aiming at the Office merely — but the ability to FILL it. His Aim was to merit the Task — not the Honor alone.

      Have a definite purpose — Aim.

      There are no “Lucky Dogs.” Winners are just the Workers with an Aim — that’s all. The Successful business men of every city — the largest number of them — had nothing to begin with but a single Aim. What is their story now? The magnificent blocks, and great enterprises that make each city what it is. Have you an Aim? You only need ONE big central

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