WHY PEOPLE ARE POOR.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7140, 30 May 1910, Page 8

WHY PEOPLE ARE POOR.

Because their ideas are much larger than their purses. Because they are easy dupes of schemes and promoters, 'Because they reverse the maxim "Duty before pleasure." Because they do not keep account of their expenditure. Because they have too many and too expensive amusements. Because they try to do what others expect of them, not what they can afford. Because tiles'- allow friends to impose on their good-naturo and generosity. Because they do not do to-day what they can possibly put off till to-morrow. Because they risk all their eggs In one basket, when they arc not in a position to watch or to control it. Because they think it will be time enough to begin to save for a rainy day when the rainy day comes. Because they do not think it worth their while to save the pennies. Because they prefer to incur debt rather than to work, which they consider is beneath them. Because the only thing that their daughters have cultivated is a fondness for smart clothes and expensive jewellery. Because they have not been able to make much in the business they understand best* and Because they think that they can make a fortune by investing in something they know nothing about, especially if it is far away.—From Orison Marden’s "Secrets of Success.”