Summary Of Conwell's Popular Lecture Acres Of Diamonds

Russell Conwell is a former minister who lived in Gilded Age America, and aggressively promoted the ideology of success—people would achieved success with enough efforts. In Conwell’s popular lecture “Acres of Diamonds,” he passed on the message that people ought to be rich, and have the duty to do so. Wealthy people were rich because they were honest, therefore they were trusted with the money. In contrast, poor people made themselves poor because of their shortcomings. In other words, people were supposed to help themselves to obtain money, instead of taking no efforts and remaining in poverty.
On the lecture, Conwell made three assumptions. First of all, he assumed that people would absolutely obtain money as they pay enough effort.