It is evident that they do not get rich because they possess talents and abilities that other men have not, but because they happen to do things in a Certain Way.
很明显，他们不富有，因为他们拥有别人没有的天赋和能力，而是他们全都按照某一特殊的方式行为处事。
Getting rich is not the result of saving, or "thrift"; many very penurious people are poor, while free spenders often get rich. Nor is getting rich due to doing things which others fail to do;
致富不是储蓄或“节俭”就能实现；一穷二白的守财奴大有人在，而一掷千金的富翁也屡见不鲜。致富也不是因为做了别人无法做成的事;
for two men in the same business often do almost exactly the same things, and one gets rich while the other remains poor or becomes bankrupt.
正如同行之间，从事的工作和所处的环境几乎完全相同，
From all these things, we must come to the conclusion that getting rich is the result of doing things in a Certain Way. If getting rich is the result of doing things in a Certain Way,
then any man or woman who can do things in that way can become rich, and the whole matter is brought within the domain of exact science. The question arises here, whether this Certain Way may not be so difficult that only a few may follow it.
This cannot be true, as we have seen, so far as natural ability is concerned. Talented people get rich, and blockheads get rich; intellectually brilliant people get rich, and very stupid people get rich;
physically strong people get rich, and weak and sickly people get rich. Some degree of ability to think and understand is, of course, essential; but in so far as natural ability is concerned,
any man or woman who has sense enough to read and understand these words can certainly get rich. Also, we have seen that it is not a matter of environment.
Location counts for something; one would not go to the heart of the Sahara and expect to do successful bus iness. Getting rich involves the necessity of dealing with men, and of being where there are people to deal with;
and if these people are inclined to deal in the way you want to deal, so much the better. But that is about as far as environment goes.
