Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes
By Will Edwards | July 29, 2009
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“By a heart made unspeakably sad by a grave on which the autumn leaves now fall, I know there are some things higher and grander and sublimer than money. ” Russell H Conwell
The quotation is taken from Russell H Conwell’s lecture Acres of Diamonds is one that I particularly like. It illustrates his love for life first, rather than any love of money. However, the book itself is about money – money as a means, that is, not as an end in itself. Because as a means, money opens the door to possibility.
Conwell was a Baptist preacher, and was sometimes challenged to defend his position on the subject of wealth. So in his book, he does deal with the oft misquoted Bible reference to the effect that ‘money is the root of all evil’. This is, of course, not what the scripture actually says on the subject. As you no doubt know, the Bible says that the ‘love of money is the root of all evil’ ” which is a different point altogether.
Using a number of stories about people who have failed to become rich simply because they missed opportunity, Conwell illustrates how it might be that many people could easily be in the same situation.
Told as a parable, or learning story, the book provides the analogy that you may be literally surrounded ” right where you are, right now ” with diamonds, but unless you understand what a diamond-in-the-rough actually looks like, maybe you will still die poor. It is a powerful message that he was invited to deliver repeatedly to different congregations. He once commented that the talk was ‘the most popular of any lecture I have delivered in the fifty-seven years of my public life’.
A classic self-help text, the book is well worth reading, again and again, until its message really sinks in: if you are looking to achieve success, you must learn how to recognise opportunity and Acres of Diamonds is probably the best book ever written of that subject.
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