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...Seventy-five years ago, the Rev. Russell Herman Conwell, a Philadelphia Baptist minister, went about the nation delivering a popular speech in which he praised not only the virtues of hard work but its rewards as well. "To secure wealth is an honorable ambition," he intoned, "and is one greattest of a person's usefulness to others. Money is power. Every good man and woman ought to strive for power, to do good with it when obtained. I say, get rich, get rich!" Conwell repeated the speech before 6,000 audiences, earned $8,000,000 in fees. He should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Millionaires: How They Do It | 12/3/1965 | See Source »

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