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Blue Book v037 n02 [1923-06], 1923
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1The Little Things that Make Men Rich
3UPON what small things the destiny of a man may turn. Today a man sits beside another on a park bench. Strangers, they fall into conversation. Their talk results in a business organization that puts them both "on easy street." Their names become household words.
5Today a man makes a train acquaintance, a few years later this trifling event has lifted him from mediocrity to a splendid position at an enormous salary.
7Today a man lends a friend enough to start a small business. His $500 advance brings him ninety million dollars.
9Today a $25 a week clerk skims idly through a magazine. Tomorrow he has left his rut of low earnings for a position paying $8,000 a year.
11And who knows what might have happened had not the two met on a park bench, had not the one made a train acquaintance, had the third refused his friend the assistance, had not the other looked idly through the magazine.
13On how little a thing depended their success. And how close they came to staying poor but for these incidents.
15Call it what you will; coincidence or a deep and incomprehensible plan of an all seeing fate; this moment sees you in a position to take advantage of a little thing that may make you independent. The very act of reading this message opens before you a vista of opportunity that has no limits, a chance to realize for yourself every desirable thing in life; money, influence, friends and success.
17Had you skipped this message this opportunity might have been forever lost to you. If you fail to take advantage of this opportunity, now that you can learn about it, you might as well have never read this page. But—and here is the crux of the thing. If you follow the dictates of your better judgment, you will look back, a year hence, and say: "To think that my success in life hung upon so slender a thread as a printed message that I might have missed."
19For my mission in life is to take men who are working for low pay, impart to them certain knowledge and suddenly lift them from the rut to positions that bring them magnificent earnings.
21Thousands of men thank me for their success. Thousands of men say "Your message was the turning point in my life, the influence that has lifted me from poverty to $5,000, $7,000, even $10,000 a year and more."
23And I am ready to do this same thing for you. Here is one of these golden opportunities that come to a man only once in a lifetime. All I ask of you is that you have ordinary intelligence, and that you have burning within you the ambition, the determination to step out of the ordinary position at low pay for a position that will permit you to realize every reasonable ambition.
25If you are that kind of a man, then mail the appended request blank to me. I will send you my book entirely free and without obligation, telling in detail how you can quickly enter a wonderful field that pays 2, 5 or 10 times your present earning.
27An Interesting Book FREE!
29HERE is opportunity. Don't ignore her loud knock upon your door. For upon such a little, such a simple act, as filling in and mailing this request may depend the entire future of your life. The act is up to you. Your decision made now, tells unmistakably whether or not you have the stuff in you of which successes are made.
31J. E. Greenslade, President,
32National Salesmen's Training Association,
33Dept. 76-G, Chicago, Ill.
34I am interested. Send me the Free Book and full details.
35I am under no obligation.
37Name…………………………………………………….
38Address………………………………………………….
39Age………………..Occupation………………………..
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