In addressing you on the subject of Investing your surplus funds, I might state that there is no other subject which I could select that so closely concerns your welfare and regarding which you might receive valuable assistance from my instructions.
Read this book carefully several times; Study each chart and subject thoroughly, and a new light and knowledge will come to you every time you read.
Hence my object in writing this book is to give to the public something new and practical, not theory alone which would fail in practice.
My knowledge comes from over twenty years\' experience, in which I have traversed the rough and rugged road that the inexperienced trader\'s foot must press before he reaches the goal.
It is my object in this work to facilitate and focalize the essential principles for practical use.
I believe in the theory and Rules that I have laid down in this book for you to follow, because I have tested and proved them.
It has been well said that a writer who writes first for remuneration and secondly because he believes what he writes, will never achieve enduring fame, and that the salesman who does not believe in his goods will never make a success.
I do not offer you a beautiful theory which will not work in practice, but give you invaluable advice, which if followed, will insure success in practical everyday Wall Street speculations and other fields of investment.
But in your difficulties he brings to your aid the accumulated experience of his profession, and a skill and knowledge which required years to accumulate and is ready for your instant use.
He would not think of guaranteeing you perpetual life or insuring you against the common ills to which the flesh is heir.
Is it any wonder then that they lose? I offer you suggestions and advice in the science of speculation and investment in the same spirit as the physician.
Men and women who would not attempt to treat the slightest ailment, or even adjust so common a thing as a kitchen faucet, but would hand each difficulty over to its respective specialist, the doctor or the plumber, will on the spur of the moment and without the slightest preparation, undertake the investment of thousands of dollars in enterprises about which they understand absolutely nothing.
This senseless waste can be traced to one and only one source, namely, lack of knowledge.
In the United States a stupendous sum, reaching into millions of dollars, is wasted annually in foolish speculations and unwise investments.
In addressing you on the subject of Investing your surplus funds, I might state that there is no other subject which I could select that so closely concerns your welfare and regarding which you might receive valuable assistance from my instructions
