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You have the seeds of success in your hands

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Rockefellers 38 Letters to His Son-Letter 17: You have the seeds of success in your hands Dear John: Yesterday, just yesterday, I received a letter from a young man who wanted to become a rich man. In his letter, he urged me to answer a que
Rockefeller’s 38 Letters to His Son-Letter 17: You have the seeds of success in your hands
  
  Dear John:
  
   Yesterday, just yesterday, I received a letter from a young man who wanted to become a rich man. In his letter, he urged me to answer a question: He lacks capital, how can he start a business and become rich?
  
  God, he wanted me to point out the direction of his life. But teaching others does not seem to be my specialty, and I cannot refuse his sincerity, which is really painful. But I still wrote back to tell him that you need capital, but you need common sense even more. Common sense is more important than money.
  
   For a poor child who wants to start a business, they often suffer from lack of capital. If they fear failure again, they will hesitate and move slowly like a snail, or even stop on the road to success, and never rise above others, so I specially reminded him in my reply to the young man:
  
"The road from poverty to prosperity is always unobstructed. It is important that you firmly believe that I am my greatest capital. You must exercise your faith and keep exploring the reasons for hesitation until faith replaces doubt. You have to know, You can’t achieve what you don’t believe in yourself; faith is the force that drives you forward."
  
   Everyone who desires to succeed should realize that the seeds of success are sown by his side. As long as he recognizes this, he can get what he wants. In the letter, I told the young man an Arab story. I believe this story will benefit others and even all of them.
  
   The person who told me this story told me like this:
  
   Once upon a time, there was a Persian named Al Hafid who lived not far from the Indus River. He owned a large orchid garden, hundreds of acres of fertile fields and prosperous gardens. He is a contented person, and very rich-because he is rich, he is very contented. One day, an old monk came to visit him and sat by his fireplace and said to him: "You are rich and you live a comfortable life, but if you have a hand full of diamonds, you can buy the land of the entire country. . If you can own a diamond mine, you can use the influence of this wealth to send your child to the throne."
  
After Hafid listened to the tempting words of the old monk, when he went to bed that night, he became a poor man—not because he lost everything, but because he became dissatisfied, so he felt like he Very poor; also because he thinks he is poor, so he can't get satisfaction. He thought: "I want a diamond mine." So, he couldn't sleep all night. Early the next morning he ran to find the monk.
  
   The old monk was woken up early in the morning and was very upset. But Hafid didn't care about this at all. He nonchalantly shook the old monk from his sleep and said to him, "Can you tell me where I can find diamonds?"
  
   "Diamonds? What do you want diamonds for?"
  
   "I want to have great wealth," Hafid said, "but I don't know where to find diamonds."
  
   "Oh," the old monk understood. He said, "You can find diamonds in the sand as long as you find a river running through the white sand in the mountain."
  
   "Do you really think you are in such a river?"
  
   "There are so many, so many! As long as you go out and look for it, you will find it."
  
   "I will," Hafid said.
  
   So, he sold the farm, recovered the loan, handed over the house to the neighbors, and set out to look for diamonds.
  
   Hafid first went to the Moonlight Mountains to find, then to Palestine, then to Europe, and finally he spent all his money and became worthless. Standing on the coast of Barcelona, ​​Spain, like a beggar, he saw a huge wave surging over the pillars of Hercules. This poor worm who had gone through vicissitudes and pains could not resist the temptation to jump and fell with the peak. Entering the sea, ended a life.
  
Soon after Hafid’s death, the heir to his property took the camel to the garden to drink water. When the camel stuck his nose into the clear and bottomless stream in the garden, the heir found that the white sand gleamed in the shallow bottom With a strange light, he stretched out his hand and touched a black stone. There was a shiny spot on the stone, emitting rainbow-like colors. He took this weird stone into the house, put it on the shelf of the fireplace, and continued to work on his work, completely forgetting it.
  
   A few days later, the old monk who told Hafid where to find the diamond came to visit Hafid's heir. He saw the light from the stone on the shelf, and ran over immediately, and exclaimed in surprise: "This is a diamond! This is a diamond! Did Hafid come back?"
  
   "No, he hasn't come back, and it's not a diamond, it's just a stone, I found it in my back garden."
  
   "Young man, you are rich! I know diamonds, this is really a diamond!"
  
   So, they ran to the garden together, picked up the white sand at the bottom of the stream with their hands, and found many diamonds that were more beautiful and more valuable than the first one.
  
   This is how people discovered the Golconda diamond mine in India. It is the largest diamond mine in human history, and its value far exceeds that of South Africa's Jinbaili. The large Kuinur diamond inlaid on the crown of the King of England and the world's largest diamond inlaid on the crown of the Russian emperor were all mined from that diamond mine.
  
John, whenever I remember this story, I can’t help but sigh for Al Hafid. If Hafid could stay in his hometown and dig his own fields and gardens instead of looking in a foreign land, he would not become Beggar, poverty and starvation, even jumped into the sea and died. He already owns diamonds everywhere.
  
   Not every story is meaningful, but this Arab story has brought me precious life lessons: your diamond is not between the distant mountains and the sea, if you are determined to dig, the diamond is in your backyard. The important thing is to sincerely believe in yourself.
  
   Everyone has a certain ideal, which determines the direction of his efforts and judgment. In this sense, I think that a person who does not believe in himself is like a thief, because anyone who does not believe in himself and has not given full play to his abilities can be said to be a person who steals from himself; and in the process, because With low creativity, he is tantamount to stealing from society. Since no one has deliberately stole from himself, those who stole from him obviously stole unintentionally. However, this crime is still very serious, because the damage it causes is as great as deliberate theft.
  
  Only by quitting this kind of stealing from ourselves can we climb to the peak. I hope that the young man who is eager to make a fortune can think about the teachings contained therein.
  
   love your father
  
   May 29, 1926
  
  Rockefeller famous quote:
  
   1. I am my biggest capital!
   2. My only belief is to believe in myself!
  3. Everyone who desires to succeed should realize that the seeds of success are sown by your side.
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