A life changing book. James Allen, the author of the best seller As a Man Thinketh, guides us to a greater understanding of how to achieve lasting prosperity. Allen helps us understand the eight pillars that are the foundation of true and lasting success. These pillars are Energy, Economy, Integrity, System, Sympathy, Sincerity, Impartiality and Self-Reliance. In As a Man Thinketh, James Allen showed how our thoughts and dreams determine the sort of person we become. In Eight Pillars of Prosperity, he reveals -in great depth and detail- the exact qualities we must meditate upon in order to achieve lasting success. This is a Book of Virtues for adults, distilling the wisdom of the ages in one compact volume. "A business built up on the faultless practice of all these principles, would be so firm and enduring as to be invincible. Nothing could injure it; nothing could undermine its prosperity, nothing could interrupt its success."