Acres of Diamonds (Condensed Classics): The Classic Work on Finding Your Fortune Where You Least Expect It
By Russell H. Conwell and Mitch Horowitz
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Do you dream of a life of riches, power, and purpose?
Well, stop dreaming. The answers are not in some faraway place or fantasy. They are right in front of you, where you least expect them.
Minister and Temple University founder Russell H. Conwell became famous for his motivational and self-improvement lecture Acres of Diamonds, which he delivered more than 5,000 times to audiences across the nation before his death in 1925. In this empowering, concise statement Conwell shows you:
• Why wealth is in your own backyard.
• The one habit of hugely successful people.
• Why simplicity is your key to greatness.
• Why you have a right and an obligation to be rich
Abridged and introduced by PEN Award-winning historian Mitch Horowitz, here is a presentation that you will never forget. Acres of Diamonds will alter the nature and direction of your life and fortunes.
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Acres of Diamonds (Condensed Classics) - Russell H. Conwell
INTRODUCTION
Serve and Grow Rich
Author Russell H. Conwell belonged to a generation of late nineteenth-century motivational writers who regarded good character as the indispensible ingredient to success. Without character, the minister and educator said, you could attain no success worthy of the name.
Conwell began giving his famous lecture Acres of Diamonds in the 1870s, and was said to have delivered it more than 6,152 times around the nation before his death in 1925. He maintained a grueling speaking schedule not only to encourage young people in the ways of ethical achievement, but also to use his speaking fees to found a college dedicated to placing education in reach of working-class students. That school today is Temple University in Philadelphia.
Acres of Diamonds remains as sturdy a guide to life as when Conwell first received inspiration for the lecture (and its title) while traveling as a journalist through Persia and Northern Africa in 1869. The ex-Civil War officer spent many hours (not always happily) listening to folk stories that his Arab guides insisted on reciting for travellers. One of the guides told him an intriguing morality tale about a wealthy Persian farmer who had squandered his money and life searching the world for diamonds—dying a pauper before diamonds were finally discovered, on the very farm that he had abandoned to embark on his quest.
The lesson that Conwell took from this story forms the heart of Acres of Diamonds: Success can be found right where you stand—provided you possess the simplicity and soundness of character to see it. While Acres of Diamonds holds many lessons for today’s success-hungry reader, it differs in tone from later generations of motivational literature. Conwell insisted that good character and good business are innately joined: one could not exist without the other. The chief aim of the good businessman, he taught,