Self-Help: With Illustrations of Conduct & Perseverance (Business Library) - Softcover

Bull, George; Smiles, Samuel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140091009 ISBN 13: 9780140091007

Publisher: Penguin, 1986

Synopsis

Argues that individuals must work hard to achieve their own fulfillment, discusses the importance of perseverance, energy, and courage, and warns of the abuse of money

About this title

Review

Much in Self-Help is still stimulating. Its central precept - the value of hard work, ingenuity, perseverance, thrift, a solid education - is in tune with American notions of workfare, not to mention the Labour party's espousal ... of a shift in the mission statement of the British social security system from 'hand-out' to 'hand-up'. Welfare financed by taxation is no longer chic. --The Financial Times, 29.06.96

So far from a shallow exposition of 'economic man', Self-Help is an uplifting study of individual morality brought to life by personal examples. --Lord Harris, The Times, 29.06.96

About the Author

Samuel Smiles (1812–1904) was the father of the modern self-help movement, originating the much-used term with this 1859 publication. A prominent Victorian liberal, he advocated for universal suffrage among men. Smiles' frustration with the limits of government action, however, aroused his interest in motivating individuals to independently transform their lives.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140091009
• ISBN 13: 9780140091007
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256