The Six-Word Secret to Success
Introduction
In order to fully enjoy prosperity and its accompanying sense of achievement,
one needs to have known poverty and an environment in which daily survival is
the purpose of life. As a youngster, I didn’t know anything about a sense of
achievement, but I was all too aware of being poor. It didn’t seem to bother the
other kids, but it bothered me. What made it all the more exasperating to me, as
a boy of twelve, was to be poor in Southern California, where there seemed to be
so many who were rich. In fact, anyone who had an automobile, an electric
refrigerator, and wall-to-wall carpeting was rich in my book, and the children of
such people seemed to me to be fortunate indeed. I decided to find out why some
people were rich while so very many of us were poor.
