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Importance of saving money

There are opportunities on every corner but they exist only for those who have ready money, or who can command money because they have formed the habit of saving.

Generally speaking, this is the attitude that the world takes toward all those who save money.

It often happens that a small savings account of no more that two or three hundred dollars is sufficient to start one on the highway to financial independence.

Love and justice are the real arbiters of all disputes. Give them a chance and you will no longer want to defeat a brother sojourner by the wayside of life.

There may be times when you find that, even having saved money, it is difficult to persuade others to back you, simply because your vision is greater than theirs.

It may seem a cruel fact, but it is a fact nonetheless, that if you have no money, and have not developed the habit of saving, you are out of luck as far as availing yourself of the opportunity to make money is concerned.

It can do no harm to repeat in fact it should be repeated over and over again that the real start of nearly all fortunes, whether great or small, is the formation of the habit of saving money.

Get this basic principle firmly founded in your mind and you will be well on the road toward financial independence!

It is a sad sight to see someone who is well along in years of self sentenced to the wearisome treadmill of hand labor because he or she neglected to form the habit of saving money when they were younger.

The greatest things in life is freedom! but there can be no freedom without a reasonable degree of financial independence.

It is a terrible thing to be compelled to be at a certain place, at a certain task for a certain number of hours every working day of the week, for a whole lifetime. In some ways this is the sane as being in prison since one's choice of action is always limited. It is really no better that being in prison with the privilege of a "trustee" and in some ways it is even worse because the person who is imprisoned has escaped the responsibility of providing themselves a place to sleep, something to eat, and clothes to wear.

The only hope of escape from the lifelong toil which curtains freedom is to form the habit of saving money and then live up to that habit, no matter how much sacrifice it may require. There is no other way out for millions of people, unless you are one of the rare exceptions, This lesson and all these statements of fact are meant for you and apply to you!

Neither a borrower, Nor a lender be; For load oft loses itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all; to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, thou cant not then be false to any man
-Shakespeare

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