The Art of Money Getting: E-Book Pages 58-73

Notes/Excerpts:

• Use the best tools
  • if you get a good one, it is better to keep him, than keep changing
  • he is worth to you this years more than the last
  • if, as he gets more valuable, he demands an exorbitant increase of salary; on the supposition that you can’t do without him, let him go
  • those men who have brains and experience are the most valuable and not to be readily parted with; it is better for them, as well as yourself, to keep them, at reasonable advances in their salaries from time to time
• Don’t get above your business
  • there is no greater mistake than when a young man believes he will succeed with borrowed money. Why? Because every man’s experience coincides with that of Mr. Astor, who said: it was more difficult for him to accumulate his first thousand dollars, than all the succeeding millions that made up his colossal fortune.
  • money is good for nothing unless you know the value of it by experience
  • nothing is worth nothing, unless it costs efforts
  • there is no royal road to learning
    • the road to learning is a royal one; the road that enables the student to expand his intellect and add every day to his stock of knowledge, until, in the present process of intellectual growth, he is able to solve the most profound problems, to count the stars, to analyze every atom of the globe, and to measure the firmament this is a regal highway, and it is the only road worth traveling.
    • FOR THE PROPER STUDY OF MANKIND IS MAN
    • let your motto then always be “excelsior” foy by living up to it there is no such word as fail