Acres of Diamonds by Russell Conwell
Posted by admin on October 18th, 2008
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Acres of Diamonds by Russell Conwell is a powerful book that has made it a #1 bestseller!
The central idea of the work is that one need not look elsewhere for opportunity, achievement, or fortune — the resources to achieve all good things are present in your own community.
Acres of Diamonds began life, according to Russell Conwell, as he was riding in 1870 in a camel caravan along the valley between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in Mesopotamia when he heard a guide weave tales to entertain his American tourists.
Conwell, then only 27, was deeply impressed by a legend about a prosperous Persian farmer, Ali Hafed. Lured by the stories of a Buddhist priest, Ali deserted his fruitful lands to search for immense wealth in mythical diamond fields.
Far and wide Ali Hafed roamed, footsore and weary. Youth and wealth disappeared, and he died far from home, an old and disillusioned pauper. Not long afterward, the guide related, acres of fabulous diamonds were found on Ali Hafed’s own land.
To the other tourists, this was just another alluring story, but in Conwell’s mind a great truth had been sown. To him it said:
“Your diamonds are not in far-away mountains or in distant seas; they are in your own back yard if you will but dig for them.”
From this beginning this experience by Conwell became a speech that he delivered over 6,000 times around the world; it was eventually published in book form as delivered, as Acres of Diamonds.
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