Many “Best Buys" Do Not Cost Any Money!

ASKING is the quickest, easiest, surest way to get what you want. It usually is the most inexpensive. But it isn't FREE! Successful ASKING has a price tag.

You have to pay-before, during, or after-you get whatever you want, even though you get it simply by ASKING. That is as it should be. Success should not- and does not-consist of going around begging: "Gimme, . . " gimme, gimme. There are too many people trying that now- and it isn't getting them anything I Perhaps a few tokens, but that's all. Let's take a good look at the price tags on GETTING WHATEVER YOU WANT by the success method of ASKING.

Actually, there are many price tags and different price tags, but that fact will not confuse you once you learn how to read the prices on the price tags of success. And that is easy. Obviously, some ASKING really is no more than expert purchasing. All you do to get the BEST BUY is to use your skill in ASKING to be sure you always get the best value at the lowest possible price. But since in actual purchases, the "price" means “money," we shall not discuss it here--except to emphasize that perfecting your skill and persistence in ASKING will enable you always to get the BEST BUYS.

In this chapter let us consider getting many of the things you want without paying any MONEY at all! The price tags are there-but they don't have DOLLAR marks! Instead of DOLLAR prices, the price tags on many of the things you want have such prices as: appreciation, gratitude, admiration, cooperation and friendship.

You see, other people don't just want money. Many people don't want or need any more money. But everybody wants and needs: appreciation, gratitude, admiration, cooperation and friendship. So you often can pay for many of the things you want with what other people want MORE THAN MONEY!

And, if you try, you can cultivate and possess in unlimited abundance: appreciation, gratitude, admiration, cooperation and friendship with which to pay others for providing you with many of the things you want and need most. If you ASK a powerful and wealthy person to help you get what you want-you wouldn't offer to pay in money. You would pay in admiration of his achievements, appreciation of (in the meaning of holding in esteem) his accomplishments, sincere gratitude radiant with the warmth of friendship, and the assurance of your total co operation in any of his activities where your services might save his valuable time for his more important endeavors.

If you are genuinely and obviously sincere, this will get you the help you want-plus valuable goodwill which may last a lifetime! Even in those cases where you should and do pay with money-always add an extra bonus payment in appreciation, gratitude, admiration, cooperation and friendship. This may get you special consideration, service or other tangible benefits-but always it will get you a bonus of goodwill in return. And, as you go through life, you will find that you need all of the goodwill you can accumulate.

You should start an imaginary GOODWILL INVESTMENT ACCOUNT and invest in it all of the goodwill you can acquire so that you will accumulate an unlimited abundance of goodwill! The best investment you can make in that imaginary GOODWILL INVESTMENT ACCOUNT is the goodwill you will receive in return for your adding an extra bonus payment of appreciation, gratitude, admiration, cooperation and friendship-whenever you ASK anyone to help you get what you want! That will make your success method of ASKING doubly profitable!