From the Science of Getting Rich

Reply #7

rdgrnr — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 03:19:29 GMT

I agree, karinda, I think I came off a little too harsh in my critique, I didn't mean to be disrespectful to SSLotteryPlayer.

I'm sorry, SSLotteryPlayer. I think I get a little crazy after watching the news sometimes, LOL.

And it is an interesting book, I read it some time ago.

All the best to you too, karinda and SS,

Ridge

Reply #6

karinda — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 03:06:36 GMT

Competition is what spurs new ideas, creativity and progress.

I agree with that Ridge. I think that maybe this quote may sound less radical in the context

of the paragraph that it came from, but I've never read the book. There's competition and then there's

total control and domination, which doesn't leave room for any competition.

That's what I thought the author meant when I first read the quote. Without reading it in context it's

difficult to tell for sure what the author mean... [ More ]

Reply #5

tiggs95 — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 01:55:42 GMT

Life is just a bowl of cheeries so why does tiggs get all the pits!!!???...

Reply #4

karinda — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 01:52:00 GMT

I like the quote and didn't know where it came from. Thanks for posting it SSLotteryPlayer. And thanks for all of the information about the author and book Coin Toss! Interesting stuff

Reply #3

Coin Toss — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 21:12:43 GMT

SSLotteryPlayer, Good book, isn't it? Enjoy it!

All,

Since the Law of Attraction is popular here (and this was wayyyyy before The Law of attraction) , a little about ethe author who wrote the book in the OP:

Wallace D. Wattles

Born in the mid 1800s during the War between the States, Wallace D. Wattles experienced a life of failure after failure, until in his latter years, after tireless study and experimentation he formulated and put into practice the principles laid out in The Scien... [ More ]

Reply #2

rdgrnr — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 16:23:28 GMT

With all due respect:

That sounds all nice and flowery and touchy-feely but it's just socialist propaganda and it doesn't work.

Competition is what spurs new ideas, creativity and progress.

When somebody throws the ladder down, you put the ladder back up or find some other way to the top and kick the other guy's ass when you get up there.

That's how progress is made, not by pie-in-the-sky euphemisms.

Reply #1

Raven62 — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 16:05:29 GMT

Are you the Former or the Latter

From the Science of Getting Rich

SSLotteryPlayer — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 13:18:04 GMT

Every man who becomes rich by competition

throws down behind him the ladder by which he rises,

and keeps others down; but every man who gets rich

by creation opens a way for thousands to follow him,

and inspires them to do so.