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Here is the Foreword to the book! THE BOOK OF GENESIS is the key to the Bible. In the New Testament it is quoted twenty-seven times literally and thirty-eight times substantially. It tells in a very few words how God first imaged man and the universe and then turned the development over to Jehovah, who has been in a process of manifestation for ages and aeons. The "Five Books of Moses," of which Genesis is the first, have always been credited to Moses, but that he was the author seems doubtful in the face of the many stories of creation found in the legends and hieroglyphs of ancient Egypt, Chaldea, and other nations that are almost identical with those of Genesis. It would thus seem that Moses edited the legends of the ages and compiled them into an allegorical history of creation. As printed in English translations there is little to reconcile Genesis with creation as revealed by modern geology. It is said that Hugh Miller, the brilliant Scottish geologist, went insane in his efforts to reconcile Genesis with the geological record. However more accurate translations of the Hebrew show that the literal reading of the English is often not warranted by the original text. For example, the English Bible reads, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." Fentons translation renders it thus: "By periods God created that which produced the Suns; then that which produced the Earth." When we realize that God is mind (Spirit-mind), we see that this latter rendition is correct. God creates the ideas that form the things. Here we have the key that unlocks not only the mysteries of Genesis but the whole Bible. God's creations are always spiritual. This includes the spiritual man, called Jehovah, through whom all things, including personal man, Adam, are brought into manifestation. We ask our readers to dwell on this initial proposition until its truth is established in consciousness, because it is repeated over and over in both the Old and the New Testament. Jesus said, "I speak not from myself: but the Father abiding in me doeth his works." Jesus was here referring both to His personality, the external I, and to the inner spiritual entity that He named the Father, in Genesis called Jehovah. Hebrew words are composite; they contain a variety of meanings, to be determined by the context. For example the Hebrew word yom, translated "day" in the English Bible, means "to be hot"; that is, with reference to the heat of the day as compared with the cool of the night. The word yom was also used to represent a period of time, an age. It will readily be seen that the translator had a rich field of ideas from which to choose and that he could make his text historical or symbolical according to his consciousness. If he thought the original story was a statement of facts his translation would be to that end. The Pharisees of Jesus' time were condemned by Him for teaching the letter of the Scriptures and neglecting the spirit. The same charge can be brought today against those who study the Bible as history rather than as parable and idealistic illustration of the spiritual unfoldment of man. The Bible veils in its history the march of man from innocence and ignorance to a measure of sophistication and understanding. Over all hovers the divine idea of man, the perfect-man pattern, the Lord, who is a perpetual source of inspiration and power for every man. Those who seek to know this Lord and His manifestation, Jesus Christ, receive a certain spiritual quickening that opens the inner eye of the soul and they see beyond the land of shadows into the world of Spirit. The truths in this book will be revealed to you through your own spiritual unfoldment. Spiritual things are spiritually discerned. The spiritual revelations that you seem to get from books and teachers already existed as submerged experiences in your own soul. The essential truths have been worked out in this or previous incarnations, and when you were reminded of the buried idea it blazed forth as a light from without. So all that you are or ever will be must come from your own spiritual achievements. "Seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. ****************************************************************************** I can get the whole book from me, just send email to "team1eng2 at yahoo dot com" |
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Well my friend, you know so well that the world is moving so very fast, you also know that some people understand and move with the pace of the world, while some seem to be left behind! You wonder what is moving the world so fast that yesterdays wonders are now todays toys. The answer is your brain, the greatest gift God gave us. While some use theirs some are busy wondering where to start, how to start and when to start. They watch their ideas go from great things in their head to dead cells, they sometimes prefer to talk about events and not create events! My dearest friend, I know you are not part of this group of people, I know you have the power to move past this stage if you are anyway stock by this kind of life. You see, everybody is talking about one business or the other, today it is Forex that will change your fortune, next it is shares, next moment you are told that you have to join a pyramid group, or investment club, believe me they work, they work for those that understand how to play that game well, they use their brain well and it work perfectly for them. I strongly believe that what you seek is a business that you can control, a business that you can dictate the pace, a business where you can play the game well and that business truly exist! While I can not tell you what you can do, because that will amount to not using your brain again, I will be discussing with you on how you can awaken and turbo charge the gift you recieved from God, your brain. You will hear from me soon! what will you do next? |
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Shangy, It is very easy to say take heart, it is very easy to say you messed up, but from me, I will say I love you, I will say you are a wonderful person, you are very strong and very loving. It is not easy to sit down and open your heart and tell this story, Shangy everybody might pity you or jeer you, but that is not what you need now, you really need to move on. I understand that you hurt because of memories, the things you did with her, the things you imagined to do with her and what she might have told you . You see, the journey of a man and a woman before marriage is a game, period, you must get ready to play the game well untill you meet a team player who you can now play together with. Even your team player sometimes might want to out play you, so you still have to keep on playing it well. Yes it hurts, yes it is not fair, but try to pull out from this pity, victim mode and move up. If not, this might affect your confidence, it might make you develope a low self esteem AND I know you don't want that. She might not be a bad person and she might come back, untill then the game is on. I can send you a detailed help to aid you understand the game of dating better. just send email to "team1eng2 at yahoo dot com" |
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What did you gain from this book. If you don't have yours yet just request for it. A great moment ahead. |
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Pilgrim! That is correct representing God for what God is not is false, God IS, that, I trust is the truth. Where I think one should look deeply is the understanding of God as the Omnipresence. With this single understanding "Ominipresence" and by the understanding that God IS, I do not worry about any attribute we give God. What I think Charles Fillmore did in that book was to relate the book of Genesis to our own life, how it affects us, and what he thinks is the meaning. Reading the book will defintely be a plus in this great journey of life. Thank you again Pilgrim |
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Thank you very much Pilgrim. Word might have mutiple meanings, but the heart knows what its saying and why its saying what is said!, I am aware and do not have any doubt that God is the ominpresence. As you agree with me on that, then what is the case with "mind force" "universe" God and the rest. The source of life is all and what ever you decide to call God, let it be what resonate with your heart. You see I just read that charles fillmore's book and its just amazing. Still your mind will lead you better than any other book. I love you all. |
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You see, I am not promoting any sect or group, I understand that this book is something when read will help you relate to yourself better and forget about the argument and analysis that most people are traped with. After all said and done what IS, IS, but for one to know what Is: what is not must give way. This book is written by charles fillmore and titled the mystries of genesis. My experience in life is that when the heart encounter truth there will never exist any argument. The Bible is a great book, and I think you will gain more as you relate most of the bible sayings to your own life. The best I can say is follow your heart. |
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Hey, that will be wonderful, you are doing something like PayPal service, yes that will be very good, but 6% on the transaction might be on the high side. A word of advice, I know you are not planing to give this to hawkers on the street, but since you mentioned that you want even the dogs to have access to this online payment, I think you should keep it at say 2 - 3%, let them come in first then see how you can take it up or sell the whole thing for big money. The Idea I think is to try and tie a lot of online merchants to your service first and you can do that by a moderate cost. For the firstinlandbank service I think it is good, and soon you will see it on my website. Just tell me when yours is ready and if the pricing is good for me and my customers I will also use it, so nobody is let out. Keep it up. email "team1eng2 at yahoo dot com" with the subject "online payment" |
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Read and repeat this book to discover the secret of your life! *********************************************************************************************** Gen. 1:1-5. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. And the earth was waste and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day. To understand the creation of the universe by God, we must know something of the character of God. Jesus said, "God is Spirit." The works of God, He said, were done in Him (Jesus) and through Him. "The Father abiding in me doeth his works." That God is an intelligent force always present and always active is the virtual conclusion of all philosophers, thus corroborating the statements of Jesus. God is eternally in His creation and never separate from it. Wherever there is evidence of creative action, there God is. God is mind, and He created through His word or idea, and this is the universal creative vehicle. It is plainly stated in this 1st chapter of Genesis that "God said." Jesus corroborated this creative power of the word or idea again and again. He said that His words were so powerful that if we let them abide in us we might ask whatsoever we would and it should be done to us. God is a mind force carrying forward creation under mental law. That law may be known to anyone who will follow the example of Jesus. Jesus said, "Be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect." This means that we should strive for the perfection that God is. We are the image and likeness of this great creative Mind, and being in a certain aspect of our mind just like it, we can through mental adjustment attain the same conscious unity that Jesus did. God creates through the action of His mind, and all things rest on ideas. The idea back of the flower is beauty. The idea back of music is harmony. The idea back of day is light or the dispensation of intelligence. This whole chapter is a statement of the creative ideas involved in the universe. It deals with involution. Evolution is the working out in manifestation of what mind has involved. Whatever mind commands to be brought forth will be brought forth by and through the law of evolution inherent in being. This applies to the great and the small. In mind there is but one. The first step in creation is the awakening of man to spiritual consciousness, the dawning of light in his mind, his perception of Truth through the quickening of his spirit. Light is wisdom; and the first day's work is the calling of light or wisdom into expression. Light represents intelligence, and darkness represents undeveloped capacity. Symbolically these are "day" and "night." The word God in this instance stands for Elohim, which is God in His capacity as creative power, including within Himself all the potentalities of being. The "beginning" indicates the first concept of Divine Mind. "Created" means ideated. The "heavens" is the realm of ideas, and the "earth" represents ideas in expression. Heaven is the idea and earth the mental picture. A comparison is found in the activity of our own mind: we have an idea and then think out a plan before we bring it forth. Ferrar Fenton, the well-known student of Hebrew and Greek, says that the first verse should read: "By periods God created that which produced the Suns; then that which produced the Earth. But the Earth was unorganized and empty; and darkness covered its convulsed surface; but the breath of God vibrated over its fluid face." From this we are to understand that God created not the earth as it appears but that which produced the earth. Elohim, Spirit, creates the spiritual idea, which is afterward made manifest through Jehovah God. The earthly thought was not yet clear. Harmony of form had not yet come into expression. "The deep" represents the capacity of the earth idea to bring forth. "The face of the deep" represents its intelligence. Understanding has not yet come into expression, and there is no apparent action. "The Spirit of God" or divine intelligence moved upon "the face of the waters." "Waters" here represents unexpressed capacities, the mental element out of which all is produced. Man is conscious of unexpressed capacities within himself, but only as he moves upon mind substance with intelligence are his inherent spiritual qualities molded into forms. "Light" is intelligence, a spiritual quality. It corresponds to understanding and should precede all activity. At the beginning of any of our creating we should declare for light. Our declarations of Truth are instantly fulfilled in Spirit. James says in his Epistle, "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights." The Evangelist John speaks of "the true light . . . which lighteth every man, coming into the world." All that emanates from God is good. In the process of bringing forth our ideas we need a certain degree of understanding in order properly to regulate our thoughts. The light must be divided from the darkness, as in Divine Mind the light was separated from the darkness. "Day" represents the state of mind in which intelligence dominates. "Night" represents the realm of thoughts that are not yet illuminated by the Spirit of God. ********************************************************************************************** I will send the full book to you at your request, send your request to "team1eng2 at yahoo dot com" with the subject "The source" |
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Hey Nigerian Ladies, I never believed that more and more women in Nigeria could just allow this gold mine lying , begging for a woman to tap in. Do you really understand why men behave like babies when they are with a woman, even if the man is a brute, then you are missing a great deal of money that is just lying and waiting for you to pick up. You see, I help a lot more people in realizing their success vision and I have done this for 60 months with great success, but recently I really went underground to understand the secret behinde so many things we do, you see my findings will really amaze you, Well, I will just do a little piercing on the entire findings that is helping my clients pad their bank accounts with more money than ever! Yes, this one is just for the ladies! Here is the secret! Men like women, not because of sex, beauty, or in general character, they like women because they crave to be pampered, they unconsciously feel like babies and remember how their mother pampered them, period! For men, hear this, every woman wants a man's approval, ask Bobby Eke the stylist and he will tell you better. ************************************************************************************** The main secret here is! Some gorgeous looking ladies that is reading this should do this fast! Learn how to cut men's hair, yes barbing salon is the secret, learn how to do it well, and see if your bank manager will not come to you for personalized service. Men love to be pampered and when it is done by a lady, they will pay heavily for that service. Hey, I am betting my integrity on this one. P.S. for more help on how to do this, lets talk. What do you think |
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you see while so many people are falling victim for all the hype and noise about making money and building a successful buisness, some other persons are busy closing deals and making the best of their life. You have heard this more and more time, the power is not in the knowing but in the doing of what you know, but then you have to know before you do. Are you really ready to quit argument, analysis and complaining about the situation, and get to do what you must do to move ahead in life? I will send this timely information to you when you request for it with by sending email to "team1eng2 at yahoo dot com" |
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Praise God, Finally, I am rushing to Firstinland bank tomorrow, this is more than a relieve, I definitely will be one of the first to use this for my website cos a lot have been hanging due to this online payment thing. Please interswitch leave this Firstinland bank to help me achieve this big success. Paying 150k for interswicth webpay was not a good bargain for me so now its game on!!!!!!!!!! For real watchout for a series of web products. Thank you firstinland bank. I would asked them how I can place the flash me logo on my website and the link will now point to their website for final transaction. Thnak you so much Syskay. Lets do it!!!!!! guys |
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Thank you for sending email to me on this project. like you asked, the website is going to be a discount online service. Lets talk on this. I still have an existing website that need to get a big lift. So lets talk and remember, I only want partners not developers that want to know how many pages the project will be and how much it will cost me. You are part of it and here you have to show what you have got. Lets talk email team1eng2 at yahoo dot com. |
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A very good one! I think we are missing the point here. An IT company, outsourcing or not is really possible in this country. But before we rush things and at the end of the day meet brick walls in the global market, lets look inwards. How many companies in Nigeria are using software made in Nigeria. And how many softwares are really made in Nigeria. I think what we have to do first is to conquer our local market, we first must hold our local market tight and then prepare to compete outside, our banks might be a good example for us, they are battling to control the local market and then some of them are now going to African countries and even moving one leg in the global market. I know some of you might have done some software and maybe sell little or most companies are not using the software, then that is part of the issues to be handled in our local market. I mean proper marketing, indepth technology marketing is what is needed, you might think you must have a perfect software better than the ones coming from abroad, no, what we need here is technology marketers, Hey, not just listing what the software can do but really doing some underground marketing so the users can buy. I will come back to this topic soon, but for Obabs, I think the first step is to conquer the local market and take the hold in the international market. check this out, most of our hostipal are not using any software to run their hospital, the farmers nothing, Look at the schools except websites they don't use technology to make learning fast and more cordinated. what of the police that is a total minus, the move to the government and also take a step to the judiciary, wait have you been to our local courier companies and see what is happening there, how they battle with countless papers and form just to locate common paper, you see there are a heep of work to be done locally before doing the outsourcing. May be you can also think about asset mangement that feets to the local market too. well I said I will come back to this issue, till then. It is only possible when you start. |
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Obabs, Thank you for that question. I trust that by the time you are done with the book you will understand why I said what I said. You see when the mind encounter the truth there is no argument to it and you can only learn the truth when you understand false. Of course I learnt a lot in class room, and as a summary the class room learning is a guide to learning more. Remember we are talking about being wealthy in life and I trust that this book will help you rip off some of the hidden blockages in business. This book will never discourage you from going to school or learning from whatever side you can learn from. But it will encourage to be focused on what is most important and leave analysis and argument alone. So I will gladly send it to you as you request it. Just send a request with the subject book to team1eng2 at yahoo dot com. |
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I have been sending this book to all the people that requested the book by sending email to me with the subject book. The email address is "team1eng at yahoo dot com". I trust you will never watch them make the whole money and you sit there and ask why. |
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I asked you to request for this book and I will send it to you at no cost. I hope Seun will not close my account for too much text here. You might be wondering why I post this things here, well, I think I can't meet everybody to give some advice and strategies that has worked for me. I see and hear a lot of young people do things with so much ignorance and I feel I can help. Most of the things that make us successful in life is never taught in the class rooms and even when they are taught it is never driven into the minds of the upcoming ones. Enjoy this part. _The cashier has just handed me your expense account for the month, and it fairly makes a fellow hump-shouldered to look it over. When I told you that I wished you to get a liberal education, I didn't mean that I wanted to buy Cambridge. Of course the bills won't break me, but they will break you unless you are very, very careful. I have noticed for the last two years that your accounts have been growing heavier every month, but I haven't seen any signs of your taking honors to justify the increased operating expenses; and that is bad business--a good deal like feeding his weight in corn to a scalawag steer that won't fat up. I haven't said anything about this before, as I trusted a good deal to your native common-sense to keep you from making a fool of yourself in the way that some of these young fellows who haven't had to work for it do. But because I have sat tight, I don't want you to get it into your head that the old man's rich, and that he can stand it, because he won't stand it after you leave college. The sooner you adjust your spending to what your earning capacity will be, the easier they will find it to live together. The only sure way that a man can get rich quick is to have it given to him or to inherit it. You are not going to get rich that way--at least, not until after you have proved your ability to hold a pretty important position with the firm; and, of course, there is just one place from which a man can start for that position with Graham & Co. It doesn't make any difference whether he is the son of the old man or of the cellar boss--that place is the bottom. And the bottom in the office end of this business is a seat at the mailing-desk, with eight dollars every Saturday night. I can't hand out any ready-made success to you. It would do you no good, and it would do the house harm. There is plenty of room at the top here, but there is no elevator in the building. Starting, as you do, with a good education, you should be able to climb quicker than the fellow who hasn't got it; but there's going to be a time when you begin at the factory when you won't be able to lick stamps so fast as the other boys at the desk. Yet the man who hasn't licked stamps isn't fit to write letters. Naturally, that is the time when knowing whether the pie comes before the ice-cream, and how to run an automobile isn't going to be of any real use to you. I simply mention these things because I am afraid your ideas as to the basis on which you are coming with the house have swelled up a little in the East. I can give you a start, but after that you will have to dynamite your way to the front by yourself. It is all with the man. If you gave some fellows a talent wrapped in a napkin to start with in business, they would swap the talent for a gold brick and lose the napkin; and there are others that you could start out with just a napkin, who would set up with it in the dry-goods business in a small way, and then coax the other fellow's talent into it. I have pride enough to believe that you have the right sort of stuff in you, but I want to see some of it come out. You will never make a good merchant of yourself by reversing the order in which the Lord decreed that we should proceed--learning the spending before the earning end of business. Pay day is always a month off for the spend-thrift, and he is never able to realize more than sixty cents on any dollar that comes to him. But a dollar is worth one hundred and six cents to a good business man, and he never spends the dollar. It's the man who keeps saving up and expenses down that buys an interest in the concern. That is where you are going to find yourself weak if your expense accounts don't lie; and they generally don't lie in that particular way, though Baron Munchausen was the first traveling man, and my drummers' bills still show his influence. I know that when a lot of young men get off by themselves, some of them think that recklessness with money brands them as good fellows, and that carefulness is meanness. That is the one end of a college education which is pure cussedness; and that is the one thing which makes nine business men out of ten hesitate to send their boys off to school. But on the other hand, that is the spot where a young man has the chance to show that he is not a light-weight. I know that a good many people say I am a pretty close proposition; that I make every hog which goes through my packing-house give up more lard than the Lord gave him gross weight; that I have improved on Nature to the extent of getting four hams out of an animal which began life with two; but you have lived with me long enough to know that my hand is usually in my pocket at the right time. Now I want to say right here that the meanest man alive is the one who is generous with money that he has not had to sweat for, and that the boy who is a good fellow at some one else's expense would not work up into first-class fertilizer. That same ambition to be known as a good fellow has crowded my office with second-rate clerks, and they always will be second-rate clerks. If you have it, hold it down until you have worked for a year. Then, if your ambition runs to hunching up all week over a desk, to earn eight dollars to blow on a few rounds of drinks for the boys on Saturday night, there is no objection to your gratifying it; for I will know that the Lord didn't intend you to be your own boss. [Illustration: "_I have seen hundreds of boys go to Europe who didn't bring back a great deal except a few trunks of badly fitting clothes._"] You know how I began--I was started off with a kick, but that proved a kick up, and in the end every one since has lifted me a little bit higher. I got two dollars a week, and slept under the counter, and you can bet I knew just how many pennies there were in each of those dollars, and how hard the floor was. That is what you have got to learn. I remember when I was on the Lakes, our schooner was passing out through the draw at Buffalo when I saw little Bill Riggs, the butcher, standing up above me on the end of the bridge with a big roast of beef in his basket. They were a little short in the galley on that trip, so I called up to Bill and he threw the roast down to me. I asked him how much, and he yelled back, "about a dollar." That was mighty good beef, and when we struck Buffalo again on the return trip, I thought I would like a little more of it. So I went up to Bill's shop and asked him for a piece of the same. But this time he gave me a little roast, not near so big as the other, and it was pretty tough and stringy. But when I asked him how much, he answered "about a dollar." He simply didn't have any sense of values, and that's the business man's sixth sense. Bill has always been a big, healthy, hard-working man, but to-day he is very, very poor. The Bills ain't all in the butcher business. I've got some of them right now in my office, but they will never climb over the railing that separates the clerks from the executives. Yet if they would put in half the time thinking for the house that they give up to hatching out reasons why they ought to be allowed to overdraw their salary accounts, I couldn't keep them out of our private offices with a pole-ax, and I wouldn't want to; for they could double their salaries and my profits in a year. But I always lay it down as a safe proposition that the fellow who has to break open the baby's bank toward the last of the week for car-fare isn't going to be any Russell Sage when it comes to trading with the old man's money. He'd punch my bank account as full of holes as a carload of wild Texans would a fool stockman that they'd got in a corner. Now I know you'll say that I don't understand how it is; that you've got to do as the other fellows do; and that things have changed since I was a boy. There's nothing in it. Adam invented all the different ways in which a young man can make a fool of himself, and the college yell at the end of them is just a frill that doesn't change essentials. The boy who does anything just because the other fellows do it is apt to scratch a poor man's back all his life. He's the chap that's buying wheat at ninety-seven cents the day before the market breaks. They call him "the country" in the market reports, but the city's full of him. It's the fellow who has the spunk to think and act for himself, and sells short when prices hit the high C and the house is standing on its hind legs yelling for more, that sits in the directors' meetings when he gets on toward forty. We've got an old steer out at the packing-house that stands around at the foot of the runway leading up to the killing pens, looking for all the world like one of the village fathers sitting on the cracker box before the grocery--sort of sad-eyed, dreamy old cuss--always has two or three straws from his cud sticking out of the corner of his mouth. You never saw a steer that looked as if he took less interest in things. But by and by the boys drive a bunch of steers toward him, or cows maybe, if we're canning, and then you'll see Old Abe move off up that runway, sort of beckoning the bunch after him with that wicked old stump of a tail of his, as if there was something mighty interesting to steers at the top, and something that every Texan and Colorado, raw from the prairies, ought to have a look at to put a metropolitan finish on him. Those steers just naturally follow along on up that runway and into the killing pens. But just as they get to the top, Old Abe, someways, gets lost in the crowd, and he isn't among those present when the gates are closed and the real trouble begins for his new friends. I never saw a dozen boys together that there wasn't an Old Abe among them. If you find your crowd following him, keep away from it. There are times when it's safest to be lonesome. Use a little common-sense, caution and conscience. You can stock a store with those three commodities, when you get enough of them. But you've got to begin getting them young. They ain't catching after you toughen up a bit. You needn't write me if you feel yourself getting them. The symptoms will show in your expense account. Good-by; life's too short to write letters and New York's calling me on the wire. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can still request to own this book at no cost, send email to team1eng2 at yahoo dot com |
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Imagine having something like Amazon dot com for nigeria market or doing what alibaba dot com is doing for Nigeia makert. Well it is not exactly like the websites I have just mentioned above, lets talk more on what I want to do. Send mail to team1eng2 at yahoo dot com. It can only be rewarding when we do our best. |
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The book has a lot of hidden information that most successful people keep dearly to their heart, they will never tell you this even when you interview them on how they became successful. Send email "team1eng2 at yahoo dot com" with a subject book. |
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A guide for the upcoming successful Business Person. So many of my close friends have asked me where I learnt how to handle business issues and remain successful. What you are about to read is a book that has long been forgotten but kept dearly by those that started the success of life very early in life. See, most of them keep this book as the only gift for their dearest children. Remember this book is out of print. Read on. Dear Pierrepont:_ Your Ma got back safe this morning and she wants me to be sure to tell you not to over-study, and I want to tell you to be sure not to under-study. What we're really sending you to Harvard for is to get a little of the education that's so good and plenty there. When it's passed around you don't want to be bashful, but reach right out and take a big helping every time, for I want you to get your share. You'll find that education's about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and that it's about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he's willing to haul away. Everything else is screwed down tight and the screw-driver lost. I didn't have your advantages when I was a boy, and you can't have mine. Some men learn the value of money by not having any and starting out to pry a few dollars loose from the odd millions that are lying around; and some learn it by having fifty thousand or so left to them and starting out to spend it as if it were fifty thousand a year. Some men learn the value of truth by having to do business with liars; and some by going to Sunday School. Some men learn the cussedness of whiskey by having a drunken father; and some by having a good mother. Some men get an education from other men and newspapers and public libraries; and some get it from professors and parchments--it doesn't make any special difference how you get a half-nelson on the right thing, just so you get it and freeze on to it. The package doesn't count after the eye's been attracted by it, and in the end it finds its way to the ash heap. It's the quality of the goods inside which tells, when they once get into the kitchen and up to the cook. You can cure a ham in dry salt and you can cure it in sweet pickle, and when you're through you've got pretty good eating either way, provided you started in with a sound ham. If you didn't, it doesn't make any special difference how you cured it--the ham-tryer's going to strike the sour spot around the bone. And it doesn't make any difference how much sugar and fancy pickle you soak into a fellow, he's no good unless he's sound and sweet at the core. The first thing that any education ought to give a man is character, and the second thing is education. That is where I'm a little skittish about this college business. I'm not starting in to preach to you, because I know a young fellow with the right sort of stuff in him preaches to himself harder than any one else can, and that he's mighty often switched off the right path by having it pointed out to him in the wrong way. I remember when I was a boy, and I wasn't a very bad boy, as boys go, old Doc Hoover got a notion in his head that I ought to join the church, and he scared me out of it for five years by asking me right out loud in Sunday School if I didn't want to be saved, and then laying for me after the service and praying with me. Of course I wanted to be saved, but I didn't want to be saved quite so publicly. When a boy's had a good mother he's got a good conscience, and when he's got a good conscience he don't need to have right and wrong labeled for him. Now that your Ma's left and the apron strings are cut, you're naturally running up against a new sensation every minute, but if you'll simply use a little conscience as a tryer, and probe into a thing which looks sweet and sound on the skin, to see if you can't fetch up a sour smell from around the bone, you'll be all right. [Illustration: "_Old Doc Hoover asked me right out in Sunday School if I didn't want to be saved._"] I'm anxious that you should be a good scholar, but I'm more anxious that you should be a good clean man. And if you graduate with a sound conscience, I shan't care so much if there are a few holes in your Latin. There are two parts of a college education--the part that you get in the schoolroom from the professors, and the part that you get outside of it from the boys. That's the really important part. For the first can only make you a scholar, while the second can make you a man. Education's a good deal like eating--a fellow can't always tell which particular thing did him good, but he can usually tell which one did him harm. After a square meal of roast beef and vegetables, and mince pie and watermelon, you can't say just which ingredient is going into muscle, but you don't have to be very bright to figure out which one started the demand for painkiller in your insides, or to guess, next morning, which one made you believe in a personal devil the night before. And so, while a fellow can't figure out to an ounce whether it's Latin or algebra or history or what among the solids that is building him up in this place or that, he can go right along feeding them in and betting that they're not the things that turn his tongue fuzzy. It's down among the sweets, among his amusements and recreations, that he's going to find his stomach-ache, and it's there that he wants to go slow and to pick and choose. It's not the first half, but the second half of a college education which merchants mean when they ask if a college education pays. It's the Willie and the Bertie boys; the chocolate eclair and tutti-frutti boys; the la-de-dah and the baa-baa-billy-goat boys; the high cock-a-lo-rum and the cock-a-doodle-do boys; the Bah Jove!, hair-parted-in-the-middle, cigaroot-smoking, Champagne-Charlie, up-all-night-and-in-all-day boys that make 'em doubt the cash value of the college output, and overlook the roast-beef and blood-gravy boys, the shirt-sleeves and high-water-pants boys, who take their college education and make some fellow's business hum with it. Does a College education pay? Does it pay to feed in pork trimmings at five cents a pound at the hopper and draw out nice, cunning, little "country" sausages at twenty cents a pound at the other end? Does it pay to take a steer that's been running loose on the range and living on cactus and petrified wood till he's just a bunch of barb-wire and sole-leather, and feed him corn till he's just a solid hunk of porterhouse steak and oleo oil? You bet it pays. Anything that trains a boy to think and to think quick pays; anything that teaches a boy to get the answer before the other fellow gets through biting the pencil, pays. College doesn't make fools; it develops them. It doesn't make bright men; it develops them. A fool will turn out a fool, whether he goes to college or not, though he'll probably turn out a different sort of a fool. And a good, strong boy will turn out a bright, strong man whether he's worn smooth in the grab-what-you-want-and-eat-standing-with-one-eye-skinned-for-the-dog school of the streets and stores, or polished up and slicked down in the give-your-order-to-the-waiter-and-get-a-sixteen-course-dinner school of the professors. But while the lack of a college education can't keep No. 1 down, having it boosts No. 2 up. It's simply the difference between jump in, rough-and-tumble, kick-with-the-heels-and-butt-with-the-head nigger fighting, and this grin-and-look-pleasant, dodge-and-save-your-wind-till-you-see-a-chance-to-land-on-the-solar-plexus style of the trained athlete. Both styles win fights, but the fellow with a little science is the better man, providing he's kept his muscle hard. If he hasn't, he's in a bad way, for his fancy sparring is just going to aggravate the other fellow so that he'll eat him up. Of course, some men are like pigs, the more you educate them, the more amusing little cusses they become, and the funnier capers they cut when they show off their tricks. Naturally, the place to send a boy of that breed is to the circus, not to college. Speaking of educated pigs, naturally calls to mind the case of old man Whitaker and his son, Stanley. I used to know the old man mighty well ten years ago. He was one of those men whom business narrows, instead of broadens. Didn't get any special fun out of his work, but kept right along at it because he didn't know anything else. Told me he'd had to root for a living all his life and that he proposed to have Stan's brought to him in a pail. Sent him to private schools and dancing schools and colleges and universities, and then shipped him to Oxford to soak in a little "atmosphere," as he put it. I never could quite lay hold of that atmosphere dodge by the tail, but so far as I could make out, the idea was that there was something in the air of the Oxford ham-house that gave a fellow an extra fancy smoke. Well, about the time Stan was through, the undertaker called by for the old man, and when his assets were boiled down and the water drawn off, there wasn't enough left to furnish Stan with a really nourishing meal. I had a talk with Stan about what he was going to do, but some ways he didn't strike me as having the making of a good private of industry, let alone a captain, so I started in to get him a job that would suit his talents. Got him in a bank, but while he knew more about the history of banking than the president, and more about political economy than the board of directors, he couldn't learn the difference between a fiver that the Government turned out and one that was run off on a hand press in a Halsted Street basement. Got him a job on a paper, but while he knew six different languages and all the facts about the Arctic regions, and the history of dancing from the days of Old Adam down to those of Old Nick, he couldn't write up a satisfactory account of the Ice-Men's Ball. Could prove that two and two made four by trigonometry and geometry, but couldn't learn to keep books; was thick as thieves with all the high-toned poets, but couldn't write a good, snappy, merchantable street-car ad.; knew a thousand diseases that would take a man off before he could blink, but couldn't sell a thousand-dollar tontine policy; knew the lives of our Presidents as well as if he'd been raised with them, but couldn't place a set of the Library of the Fathers of the Republic, though they were offered on little easy payments that made them come as easy as borrowing them from a friend. Finally I hit on what seemed to be just the right thing. I figured out that any fellow who had such a heavy stock of information on hand, ought to be able to job it out to good advantage, and so I got him a place teaching. But it seemed that he'd learned so much about the best way of teaching boys, that he told his principal right on the jump that he was doing it all wrong, and that made him sore; and he knew so much about the dead languages, which was what he was hired to teach, that he forgot he was handling live boys, and as he couldn't tell it all to them in the regular time, he kept them after hours, and that made them sore and put Stan out of a job again. The last I heard of him he was writing articles on Why Young Men Fail, and making a success of it, because failing was the one subject on which he was practical. I simply mention Stan in passing as an example of the fact that it isn't so much knowing a whole lot, as knowing a little and how to use it that counts. ************************************************************************************* To save hard disk space for this forum, I will not post all the books content which is 227 pages. Please indicate an interest to own the entire book. |
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