The Wisdom of Orison Swett Marden Vol. II

ingenuity and industry.
If you want to get rich, study yourself and your own wants. You will find millions of others have the same wants, the same demands. The safest business is always connected with men's prime necessities. They must have clothing, dwellings; they must eat. They want comforts, facilities of all kinds, for use and pleasure, luxury, education, culture. Any man who can supply a great want of humanity, improve any methods which men use, supply any demand or contribute in any way to their well-being, can make a fortune

It is a sorry day for a young man who cannot see any opportunities where he is, but thinks he can do better somewhere else

Many of us who think we are poor are rich in opportunities if we could only see them, in possibilities all about us, in faculties worth more than diamond bracelets, in power to do good.

secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. —Disraeli.
Do the best you can where you are; and, when that is accomplished, God will open a door for you, and a voice will call, "Come up hither into a higher sphere." —Beecher.
Our grand business is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. —Carlyle.

A man is never so happy as when he suffices to himself, and can walk without crutches or a guide.

"When I get a little money," said Erasmus, "I buy books, and if any is left, I buy food and clothes."

By the street of by-and-by one arrives at the house of never. —Cervantes.

"It may be so," replied the great artist, "but trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

his watch and thinking of his salary

The most successful man is he who has triumphed over obstacles, disadvantages and discouragements.