https://ia904501.us.archive.org/4/items/rich-dad-poor-dad_202106/Rich%20Dad%20Poor%20Dad.pd f For example, one dad had a habit of saying,  “I can’t afford it.” The other dad forbade those words to be used. He insisted I ask,  “How can I afford it?” One is a statement, and the other is a question. There is a difference between being poor and being broke. Broke is temporary. Poor is eternal. Robert Frost is my favorite poet. Although I love many of his poems, my favorite is  “The Road Not Taken.” I use its lesson almost daily. The Road Not Taken  Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,  And sorry I could not travel both  And be one traveler, long I stood  And looked down one as far as I could  To where it bent in the undergrowth;  Then took the other, as just as fair,  And having perhaps the better  Because it was grassy and wanted wear  Though as for that the passing there  Had worn them really about the same,  And both t...

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CHAPTER XXVIII  MEMORY TRAINING  Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, Our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain;  Awake but one, and lo! what myriads rise!  Each stamps its image as the other flies! * * * * * Hail, memory, hail! in thy exhaustless mine From age to age unnumber'd treasures shine!  Thought and her shadowy brood thy call obey, And Place and Time are subject to thy sway! --SAMUEL ROGERS,  Pleasures of Memory. Many an orator, like Thackeray, has made the best part of his speech to himself--on the way home from the lecture hall.  Presence of mind--it remained for Mark Twain to observe--is greatly promoted by absence of body.  A hole in the memory is no less a common complaint than a distressing one. Henry Ward Beecher was able to deliver one of the world's greatest addresses at Liverpool because of his excellent memory.  In speaking of the occasion Mr. Beecher said that all the events, arguments and appeals that he h...

CHAPTER XXV  INFLUENCING THE CROWD  Success in business, in the last analysis, turns upon touching the imagination of crowds. The reason that preachers in this present generation are less successful in getting people to want goodness than business men are in getting them to want motorcars, hats, and pianolas, is that business men as a class are more close and desperate students of human nature, and have boned down harder to the art of touching the imaginations of the crowds. --GERALD STANLEY LEE, Crowds. In the early part of July, 1914, a collection of Frenchmen in Paris, or Germans in Berlin, was not a crowd in a psychological sense. Each individual had his own special interests and needs, and there was no powerful common idea to unify them. A group then represented only a collection of individuals. A month later, any collection of Frenchmen or Germans formed a crowd: Patriotism, hate, a common fear, a pervasive grief, had unified the individuals. The psychology of the crowd ...