Why Aren’t We All Multi-Millionaires, Given The Overabundance of Self-Help Writers?

Adebayo Adeniran
4 min readApr 26, 2023

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The business of self-help has been around for centuries.

Benjamin Franklin — -one of the founding fathers of the United States of America — understood this fact long before most did and he published Poor Richard’s Almanac and The Way to Wealth to great acclaim.

Phrases which we often use without thinking came from the self-help books written by Franklin:

There are no gains, without pains

One today is worth two tomorrows

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things

Get what you can, and what you get hold

Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright

Have you somewhat to do tomorrow, do it today

The eye of a master will do more work than both his hands

Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise

For want of a nail.

In England, where the self-help is often viewed with a healthy dose of scepticism, a Scotchman — Samuel Smiles — tapped into a genre which had…

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Adebayo Adeniran

A lifelong bibliophile, who seeks to unleash his energy on as many subjects as possible