Family Success

A loving family provide a secure foundation for an individual to success in business. In 1954, a prominent religious leader stated that "No success can compensate for failure in the home."

There can be no lasting success if we do not invest in the family. When former Harvard Business School Dean Dr. Kim Clark addressed to a class of Harvard graduates at the June 2005 commencement, he encouraged graduates to "invest first at home and to think of this as by far your most important investment. Indeed, I believe that the most important work that you will do in your lives will be within the walls of your own home." He also counselled that "Don't let wealth and privilege and power become ends in themselves, and a corrosive force in your life. Don't set your heart on them. Set your heart on being a person of integrity, the kind of person whose values offer strength and purpose to those around them. Be the kind
of person that others will trust with their lives."

Success and Getting Rich

Wallace D. Wattles (1860-1911) was an American author and a pioneer success writer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_D._Wattles

He wrote:

"Success in life is becoming what you want to be; you can become what you want to be only by making use of things, and you can have the free use of things only as you become rich enough to buy them."

"In order to know more, do more, and be more we must have more; we must have things to use, for we learn, and do, and become, only by using things. We must get rich, so that we can live more."

"The desire for riches is really the desire for a richer, fuller, and more abundant life; and that desire is praise worthy."

"It is the desire of God that you should get rich. He wants you to get rich because he can express himself better through you if you have plenty of things to use in giving him expression. He can live more in you if you have unlimited command of the means of life."

"A man's highest happiness is found in the bestowal of benefits on those he loves; love finds its most natural and spontaneous expression in giving. The man who has nothing to give cannot fill his place as a husband or father, as a citizen, or as a man. It is in the use of material things that a man finds full life for his body, develops his mind, and unfolds his soul. It is therefore of supreme importance to him that he should be rich."