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Title: Fundamentals of Prosperity
What They Are and Whence They Come
Author: Roger W. Babson
Release Date: May 16, 2007 [EBook #21502]
Language: English
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Fundamentals of Prosperity
What They Are and
Whence They Come
By
ROGER W. BABSON
_President Babson Statistical Organization_
NEW YORK CHICAGO
Fleming H. Revell Company
LONDON AND EDINBURGH
Copyright, 1920, by
FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY
New York: 158 Fifth Avenue
Chicago: 17 North Wabash Ave.
London: 21 Paternoster Square
Edinburgh: 75 Princes Street
Contents
FOREWORD
I. HONESTY OR STEEL DOORS?
II. FAITH THE SEARCHLIGHT OF BUSINESS
III. INDUSTRY VS. OPPORTUNITY
IV. COOePERATION--SUCCESS BY HELPING THE OTHER FELLOW
V. OUR REAL RESOURCES
VI. STUDY THE HUMAN SOUL
VII. BOOST THE OTHER FELLOW
VIII. WHAT TRULY COUNTS
IX. WHAT FIGURES SHOW
X. WHERE THE CHURCH FALLS DOWN
XI. THE FUTURE CHURCH
Foreword
Some two thousand years ago the greatest teacher who ever walked the
earth advised the people of Judea not to build their houses on the sand.
What he had in mind was that they were looking too much to the structure
above ground, and too little to the spiritual forces which must be the
foundation of any structure which is to stand. Following the war we
enjoyed the greatest prosperity this country has ever witnessed;--the
greatest activity, the greatest bank clearings, the greatest foreign
trade, the greate
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