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Here is Conwell's classic inspirational speech about finding the resources to achieve all desirable things in your own community.

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25+ Self-Help Classics Collection: Think and Grow Rich, The Richest Man in Babylon, The Art of War, As a Man Thinketh, The Meditations, Orthodoxy, A Confession and Others. Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to 25+ Self-Help Classics Collection and experience the compelling world of motivation, inspiration, and self-help.

Nightingale-Conant presents four of the greatest success classics: Acres of Diamonds by Russell H. Conwell, The Art of War by Sun Tzu, The Master Key System by Charles F. Haanel, and I Dare You! by William H. Danforth.

Do you dream of a life of riches, prosperity, and purpose? Well, stop dreaming - the answers are not in some fantasy or far-off place. They are directly under your nose. Minister and Temple University founder Russell H. Conwell became famous for his motivational and self-improvement lecture "Acres of Diamonds", which he delivered around the nation more than 5,152 times before his death in 1925.

One of the most popular self-help speeches of all time teaches you to seek for the riches within and close to home. Russell Conwell's famous Acres of Diamonds speech was the inspiration for Temple University's mission.

In this program, Denis Waitley narrates one of the most popular self-help speeches in the world - delivered over 6,000 times by Russell Conwell, a Baptist minister, nearly 150 years ago. At the heart of Acres of Diamonds is a parable Conwell heard while traveling through the Middle East in 1870.

Considered by many to be one of the finest speeches ever written, Acres of Diamonds offers a multitude of lessons about the rewards of work, education, and finding the riches of life in one's own backyard. In an era when many Americans would pack public halls to hear speeches given by the greatest citizens of their day, Russell Conwell read his world-famous lecture hundreds of times, and used the income he earned delivering it to found a small seminary to train Baptist ministers. 

All four of these classic self-help works have stood the test of time and are enjoyed by people all over the world to this day.   

The author of Acres of Diamonds (1890) was Russell Herman Conwell (1843-1925), an American Baptist minister, orator, philanthropist, lawyer, and writer. The author was inspired by the story of a Persian farmer who loses his life looking for a diamond mine when his own farm (which he sold to finance his search for a mine) literally contained acres of diamonds. The main message of this motivational classic is that one need not look elsewhere for opportunity, achievement, or fortune, because the resources to achieve all good things are already present in one's own community.

The Acres of Diamonds story, "a true one", tells of an African farmer who heard tales about other farmers who had made millions by discovering diamond mines. These tales so excited the farmer that he could hardly wait to sell his farm and go prospecting for diamonds himself. He sold the farm and spent the rest of his life wandering the African continent searching unsuccessfully for the gleaming gems that brought such high prices on the markets of the world.

John Muir was known as “Father of the National Parks” and was an influential naturalist and environmental philosopher. My First Summer in the Sierra details Muir’s first trip to the Sierra mountains. Russell H. Conwell was an American orator and writer. His most well-known speech, "Acres of Diamonds", conveys how one does not need to look elsewhere for fortune or opportunity; the resources to realize your goals and desires are present in your own community.