Page 202 - Think & Grow Rich 1937 Edition

202 THINK AND GROW RICH

189 Some people undergo the experience of alternating between the positive and

190 negative sides of the stream, being at times on the positive side, and at times on
191 the negative side. The Wall Street crash of '29 swept millions of people from the

192 positive to the negative side of the stream. These millions are struggling, some of
193 them in desperation and fear, to get back to the positive side of the stream. This

194 book was written especially for those millions.

195 Poverty and riches often change places. The Crash taught the world this truth,
196 although the world will not long remember the lesson. Poverty may, and
197 generally does, voluntarily take the place of riches. When riches take the place of

198 poverty, the change is usually brought about through well-conceived and
199 carefully executed PLANS. Poverty needs no plan. It needs no one to aid it,

200 because it is bold and ruthless. Riches are shy and timid. They have to be
201 "attracted."

202 ANYBODY can WISH for riches, and most people do, but only a few know

203 that a definite plan, plus a BURNING DESIRE for wealth, are the only
204 dependable means of accumulating wealth.