--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Marden, Orison Swett collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 10 number: 10 published: 1907-08 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Orison Swett Marden, "Dollars and Friendship," *Improvement Era* 10, no. 10 (August 1907): 809.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera10010unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera10010unse start_page: 809 end_page: 809 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1907-08) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera10010unse publication_year: 1907 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1907, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Dollars and Friendship DOLLARS AND FRIENDSHIP. One of the saddest phases of our strenuous American life is the terrible slaughter of friendships by our dollar chasers. Is there anything more chilling in this world than to have a lot oi money but practically no friends? What does that thing which we call success amount to if we have sacrificed our friendship, if we have sacrificed the most sacred thing in life in getting it ? We may hav3 plenty of acquaintances, but acquaintances are not friends. There are plenty of rich people in this country today who scarcely know the luxury of real friendship. Orison Swett Marden.