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Title: Acres of Diamonds by Russell H. Conwell ISBN: 051509028X Publisher: Jove Pubns Pub. Date: March, 1995 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.31
Rating: 5
Summary: a gem
Comment: Acres of Diamonds is a lecture that Russell Conwell, founder of Temple University, delivered more than 6,000 times across the country. Through this lecture, Conwell debunks the idea that it is noble to be poor, an idea that far too many Christians share. He illustrates that it is our duty as Christians to use our gifts to honestly earn riches, because you can do more good with riches than without.
Conwell successfully illustrates the difference between the popular expression "money is the root of all evil" and the complete Biblical passage which states "the love of money is the root of all evil". The love of money is idolatry, but money itself is neither good nor evil. It is simply a tool which may be used for either good or evil.
In these pages we learn the virtues of earning money through honest, hard work. We learn to look for opportunities to serve others in our own back yard by simply finding a need and filling it. If you wish to be great, begin with who you are right now, where you are right now. Follow these principles, and you will uncover your own acres of diamonds.
Larry Hehn, Author of Get the Prize: Nine Keys for a Life of Victory
Rating: 5
Summary: The Invisibility of the Obvious
Comment: Toward the end of his life, Russell H. Conwell (1843-1925) observed, "I am astonished that so many people should care to hear this story over again. Indeed, this lecture has become a study in psychology; it often breaks all rules of oratory, departs from the precepts of rhetoric, and yet remains the most popular of any lecture I have delivered in the fifty-seven years of my public life. I have sometimes studied for a year upon a lecture and made careful research, and then presented the lecture just once -- never delivered it again. I put too much work on it. But this had no work on it -- thrown together perfectly at random, spoken offhand without any special preparation, and it succeeds when the thing we study, work over, adjust to a plan, is an entire failure." He then went on to explain to each audience that "acres of diamonds are to be found in this city, and you are to find them. Many have found them. And what man has done, man can do. [They are] are not in far-away mountains or in distant seas; they are in your own back yard if you will but dig for them." These comments provide an excellent introduction to Conwell's book. As I read it, I thought about Dorothy in L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz. Only after a series of adventures far from Kansas did she realize that "there's no place like home." What Conwell has in mind involves far more than such appreciation, however. The tale he shares in this book, concerning a wealthy Persian named Ali Hafed, demonstrates that almost everything we may seek elsewhere is already in our lives and available to us.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Unexpected Merger of Religion and Capitalism, Subtly Done
Comment: First given as a lecture at the beginning of the 1900's, the inspirational thoughts contained in "Acres of Diamonds" are still as relevant today as ever. Consider how the following passage plays into today's headlines, "I hear sometimes of men that get millions of dollars dishonestly. But, they are so rare a thing, in fact, that the newspapers talk about them all the time as a matter of news until you get the idea that all the other rich men got rich dishonestly." The Reverend Conwell of the Baptist Temple Church in Philadelphia was so successful in attracting people to his "Acres of Diamonds" lectures that he made enough money to found Temple University.
How Religion and Capitalism work together and how money could be made right in one's backyard if a person knew of a need and did something to meet that need were the tenets of Conwell's lectures. Conwell's inspirational examples of success are worth a look. Spend a lunch hour, a commute in or back from work or another quiet break in the day to read Conwell's stories of those who missed finding diamonds and gold in their own backyards because they were too busy focusing on finding their fortune in faraway lands. Since the book is under 100 pages, even if you don't find your eyes have been opened a little wider, at least you haven't wasted much time giving the stories a try.
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Title: Obvious Adams: The Story of a Successful Businessman by Robert R. Updegraff ISBN: 0961320303 Publisher: Updegraff Pr Pub. Date: June, 1953 List Price(USD): $5.00 |
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Title: As a Man Thinketh by James Allen ISBN: 087516000X Publisher: DeVorss & Company Pub. Date: October, 1983 List Price(USD): $3.50 |
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Title: The Magic of Believing by Claude M. Bristol ISBN: 0671745212 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: April, 1994 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason ISBN: 0451205367 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 03 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Acres of Diamonds: All Good Things Are Possible, Right Where You Are, and Now! by Russell H. Conwell, Robert Conwell's Life and Achievements Shackleton, Bianca Leonardo ISBN: 0930852257 Publisher: Tree of Life Publishing Pub. Date: 01 September, 1993 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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