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They knowall the reasons for failure, and have what they believe to be air-tight alibis to explain away their own lack of achievement. So, that brought up another problem which had to be solved. There are thousands of people in America today who would like to know how they can convert ideas into money, people who must start at scratch, without finances, and recoup their losses. View all 124 editions? Through these sources one may commune with Infinite Intelligence, or enter, at will, the storehouse of the subconscious mind, either one's own, or that of another person, a procedurewhich is all there is of genius. After that, I began to add new members to my Cabinet, until now it consists of more than fifty, among them Christ, St. Paul, Galileo, Copernicus, Aristotle, Plato, Socrates, Homer, Voltaire, Bruno, Spinoza, Drummond, Kant, Schopenhauer, Newton, Confucius, Elbert Hubbard, Brann,Ingersoll, Wilson, and William James. Wrong habits of thought; giving expression to negatives. Then, too, another problem would confront you. A great poet has correctly stated this universal truth through these lines: "I bargained with Life for a penny,And Life would pay no more,However I begged at eveningWhen I counted my scanty store. .". I have had the privilege of analyzing several thousand men and women, 98% of whom were classed as "failures." The emotions may, likewise, be combined so as to create a deadly poison. Be persistent. Following this statement, comes another of still greater importance, namely, MAN'S THOUGHT IMPULSES BEGIN IMMEDIATELY TO TRANSLATE THEMSELVES INTO THEIR PHYSICAL EQUIVALENT, WHETHER THOSE THOUGHTS ARE VOLUNTARY OR INVOLUNTARY. Nearly everyone was engaged in the pastime of trying to GET WITHOUT GIVING. There is no standard price on ideas. When the plan book had been completed, it contained nearly fifty pages of beautifully typed, properly organized information, telling the story of her son's native ability, schooling, personal experiences, and a great variety of other information too extensive for description. New leaders will be required in the field of Journalism. During that interview Carnegie slyly dropped a hint of a certain master power he used; a magic law of the human mind--a little known psychological principle--which was amazing in its power. Fourth. Some teachers of religion, and many who call themselves Christians, neither understand nor practice FAITH. Some will say, "With all these blessings, King Edward should have found peace of mind, contentment, and joy of living.". He used it so effectively that, although he was then making only $12,000 a year, he accumulated a great fortune, and retired from active business while still a young man. The subconscious mind is more susceptible to influence by impulses of thought mixed with "feeling" or emotion, than by those originating solely in the reasoning portion of the mind. 25. His love was clean. Most people living in America like this country, its capitalistic system and all. In addition the Koran said that all men were equal before God, that the world should be a democratic state Islam. It is a remarkable illustration of the power of a DEFINITE DESIRE. Remember this--a DECISION, in the minds of two men, might properly be called the beginning of the freedom which we, of the United States now enjoy. Indecision, the habit of "passing the buck" on all occasions, instead of facing issues squarely. When asked why he did this, he replied, "With my eyes closed, I am able to draw upon a source of superior intelligence.". Men and women who are known to be blessed--yes, BLESSED--with highly sexed natures, are usually looked upon as being people who will bear watching. The trouble is that the worldsowed the wrong sort of seed. The impulse, the DESIRE, is given shape, form, and ACTION through the aid of the imaginative faculty of the mind. Would you call yourself a "spineless weakling" if you permitted others to do your thinking for you? It reflects man's Divine nature. He chose to build an engine with the entire eight cylinders cast in one block, and instructed his engineers to produce a design for the engine. FEAR OF COMPETITION FROM FOLLOWERS. Understand this truth, and you will catch the significance of the statement that sex transmutation will lift one to the status of a genius. Need help? The successful leader must plan his work, andwork his plan. From these brief references to the subject, it may be readily seen that ignorance on the subject of sex transmutation, forces stupendous penalties upon the ignorant on the one hand, and withholds from them equally stupendous benefits, on the other. Others have accepted the experience of sex urge, without discovering one of its major potentialities--a fact which accounts for the great number of "others" as compared to the limited number of genii. The money will be made by those who discover or create new and more meritorious radio programmes and have the imagination to recognize merit, and to give the radio listeners a chance to profit by it. 21. Think and grow rich by Napoleon Hill, Mar 08, 2016, Skyhorse edition, hardcover. Here is a list of the symptoms for which you should look: Commonly expressed through lack of ambition; willingness to tolerate poverty; acceptance of whatever compensation life may offer without protest; mental and physical laziness; lack of initiative, imagination, enthusiasm and self-control, The habit of permitting others to do one's thinking. As he grew older, and began to take notice of things around him, we observed that he had a slight degree of hearing. It, alone, contains the secret process by which mental impulses are modified and changed into their spiritual equivalent. Kate Smith will say "amen" when she reads this. Many of the street car tracks have been removed and passengers ride on a bus, whose driver is "the last word in politeness.". Here we have freedom of thought, freedom in the choice and enjoyment of education, freedom in religion, freedom in politics, freedom in the choice of a business, profession or occupation, freedom to accumulate and own without molestation,ALL THE PROPERTY WE CAN ACCUMULATE, freedom to choose our place of residence, freedom in marriage, freedom through equal opportunity to all races, freedom of travel from one state to another, freedom in our choice of foods, and freedom toAIM FOR ANY STATION IN LIFE FOR WHICH WE HAVE PREPARED OURSELVES, even for the presidency of the United States. It was what he THOUGHT that counted. It would be beneficial if no college would permit the enrollment of any student, unless and until the student declared his major purpose in matriculating. That is--he met withtemporary defeatten thousand times, before his efforts were crowned with success. I can touch it with my hands. In this volume will be found the thirteen principles of money-making essential to every person who accumulates sufficient money to guarantee financial independence. This is a common cause of failure among those who start out in business for the first time, without sufficient reserve of capital to absorb the shock of their mistakes, and to carry them over until they have established a REPUTATION. Later in life I discovered that the efficient collection system of that school had been worth much in the form of money earned, because of the training in advertising I had so reluctantly taken. You are engaged in an undertaking of major importance to you. He could cease his opposition, and receive personal bribes, or he could CONTINUE, AND RUN THE RISK OF BEING HANGED! "But by the side of Andrew Carnegie's gigantic vertical trust, a trust owned and operated by fifty-three partners, those other combinations were picayune. The better use of this power is the burden of this chapter. When you read it, perhaps you will dismiss any feeling you may have had, at the beginning of the book, that it promised too much. This is no mere statement of a theory--it is a fact. PERSONAL LETTERS OF APPLICATION, directed to particular firms or individuals most apt to need such services as are being offered. It is the faculty through which "hunches" and "inspirations" are received. This Intelligence may, through the principles of this philosophy, be induced to aid in transmuting DESIRES into concrete, or material form. Have I permitted any one or more of the six basic fears to decrease my efficiency? There was one story in particular, which I emphasized by giving it some new and dramatic coloring each time it was told. Remember this when you are ready to bargain with Life for whatever it is that you ask as your price for having passed this way. He owes his "stickability" to the lesson he learned from his "quitability" in the gold mining business. Young Gunsaulus went to Mr. Armour's office and the million dollars was presented to him. 2. Do you neglect internal bathing until auto-intoxication makes you ill-tempered and irritable? These men are known as capitalists. When his older brother wanted something, he would lie down on the floor, kick his feet in the air, cry for it--and get it. The subconscious mind, (the chemical laboratory in which all thought impulses are combined, and made ready for translation into physical reality), makes no distinction between constructive and destructive thought impulses. If you have mastered each of the preceding principles, you are now prepared to accept,without being skeptical, the stupendous claims made here. Every man who manages a business knows what a difficult matter it is to get employees to work together in a spirit even remotely resembling HARMONY. He suggested this to Edison, and promptly got his chance. It is a well known fact that, through the aid of chemistry of matter, a chemist may create a deadly poison by mixing certain elements, none of which are--in themselves-- harmful in the right proportions. CAPITAL consists not alone of money, but more particularly of highly organized, intelligent groups of men who plan ways and means of using money efficiently for the good of the public, and profitably to themselves. Thus you may wipe out, forever, the fear of Death. Put your dream across, and never mind what "they" say if you meet with temporary defeat, for "they," perhaps, do not know that EVERY FAILURE BRINGS WITH IT THE SEED OF AN EQUIVALENT SUCCESS. 2. to present the side of the picture opposite to that being shown by politicians and demagogues who deliberately becloud the issues they bring up, by referring to organized capital as if it were something poisonous. I imagine some readers will question the statement that a mere, intangible DESIRE can be converted into its physical equivalent. I sincerely hope the world will discover and reward you. In every one so far the two have been of equal vigor, almost exactly. "I know that you are doing a world of good with your Law of Success. Radio, right now, is about where the moving pictures were, when Mary Pickford and her curls first appeared on the screen. Barnes' desire was not ahope! This principle is the apex of the philosophy. These and many other similar questions have arisen in my mind as I have observed men like Henry Ford, who started at scratch, and built an Industrial Empire of huge proportions, with little else in the way of a beginning but PERSISTENCE. Sex energy is the creative energy of all genii. If you carry out these instructions with PERSISTENCE and intelligence, and use discrimination in the selection of your "Master Mind" group, your objective will have been half-way reached, even before you begin to recognize it. It means that people will not follow forced leadership indefinitely. But, the greatest decision of all time, as far as any American citizen is concerned, was reached in Philadelphia, July 4, 1776, when fifty-six men signed their names to a document, which they well knew would bring freedom to all Americans, orleave every one of the fifty-six hanging from a gallows! (To the uninitiated, this means that he went to East Orange on a freight train). They permit the newspapers and the "gossiping" neighbors to do their "thinking" for them. Perhaps you may need much more specialized knowledge than you have the ability or the inclination to acquire, and if this should be true, you may bridge your weakness through the aid of your "Master Mind" group. Have I improved my PERSONALITY, and if so, in what ways? It was IMAGINATION. The world is undergoing a rapid change. His deepest desirewas to become the directing head of an educational institution in which young men and women would be taught to "learn by doing.". It will not be difficult to detect, in the story of the Declaration of Independence, at least six of these principles; DESIRE, DECISION, FAITH, PERSISTENCE, THE MASTER MIND, and ORGANIZED PLANNING. With this knowledge of the principles of mind operation, I was fairly well armed with the equipment needed in rebuilding my character. This extensive and detailed presentation of accurate information has been included, because it will be needed by all who must begin the accumulation of riches by marketing personal services. The answer is straight to the point, also it is dramatic, because it deals with a subject which assumes the proportion of a tragedy with millions of men and women whose sole source of income is personal services. Both have lost control over their faculties of reason and will-power. Catch the full significance of the statements in the preceding paragraph, and you will understand the importance of PERSISTENCE in the accumulation of a fortune. The thought of eternal punishment, with fire, not only causes man to fear death, it often causes him to lose his reason. THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR PERSISTENCE! Most people are too indifferent or lazy to acquire FACTS with which to THINK ACCURATELY. Then you gain control of the other arm in the same manner. The Old Kettle gives employment to an army of clerks, stenographers, copy writers, and advertising experts throughout the nation. He takes the first place he finds, because he has fallen into the habit of INDECISION. Incidentally, an efficient merchandiser of personal services would find a growing demand for his services wherever there are men and women who seek better markets for their services. In elementary physics we learn that neither matter nor energy (the only two realities known to man) can be created nor destroyed. Baldheaded men, for example, are bald for no other reason than their fear of criticism. Write out a clear, concise statement of the amount of money you intend to acquire, name the time limit for its acquisition, state what you intend to give in return for the money, and describe clearly the plan through which you intend to accumulate it. The doctor who attended at his birth told us, confidentially, the child might never hear or speak. A few weeks ago, Dr. Irving Voorhees, a noted specialist on such cases, examined Blair very thoroughly. I am helping the laws of Nature to create more perfect specimens of vegetation while you are using those same laws through The Law of Success to build more perfect specimens of thinkers. The cause may be found in the fact that ALL IMPULSES OF THOUGHT HAVE A TENDENCY TO CLOTHE THEMSELVES IN THEIR PHYSICAL EQUIVALENT. Highly sexed people move briskly, and with grace and ease. Every company has room for the man who has a definite plan of action which is to the advantage of that company. In some instances, it may be more effective if the applicant offers personally, his services to prospective employers, in which event a complete written statement of qualifications for the position should be presented, for the reason that prospective employers often wish to discuss with associates, one's record. For more than twenty years it has been a somewhat popular and growing pastime for radicals, self-seeking politicians, racketeers, crooked labor leaders, and on occasion religious leaders, to take pot-shots at "WALL STREET, THE MONEY CHANGERS, and BIG BUSINESS.". Decision can also prevent one's acceptance of undesired circumstances. It is a fault which no well-informed business man, or leader will tolerate. There is no hope of success for the person who does not have a central purpose, ordefinite goalat which to aim. 3. State your qualificationsfor the particular position for which you apply. The reply would be inaccurate, because few people realize that they are bound, handicapped, whipped spiritually and physically through some form of fear. The transaction pleased me, because I knew that he had given evidence of a trait of resourcefulness that would go with him all through life. These qualities are free to everyone. It is believed to be the point at which the mind of man contacts the Universal Mind. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity. Physicians, without fear or hesitation, have been known to physically contact hundreds of people, daily, who were suffering from such contagious diseases as small-pox, without becoming infected. A KEEN SENSE OF JUSTICE. "Wall Street, Big Business, Capital Predatory Interests," or whatever name you choose to give the system which has given us AMERICAN FREEDOM, represents a group of men who understand, respect, and adapt themselves to this powerful LAW OF ECONOMICS! But, he did say, "I came here to go into business with Edison, and I'll accomplish this end if it takes the remainder of my life." Most of us have never taken inventory of the advantages of this freedom. "When dawn came, Morgan rose and straightened his back. The competent leader requires no "title" to give him the respect of his followers. The method by which one develops FAITH, where it does not already exist, is extremely difficult to describe, almost as difficult, in fact, as it would be to describe the color of red to a blind man who has never seen color, and has nothing with which to compare what you describe to him. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach. ), "Allow me to express my appreciation of the compliment you have paid me in sending the original manuscript of the Law of Success. If so, why do you not try will-power instead? The practical dreamers have always been, and always will be the pattern-makers of civilization. (Also backed by alibis). Arthur Nash, a Cincinnati tailor, used his near-bankrupt business as a "guinea pig" on which to test the formula. 2. If it is true that ALL THOUGHT HAS A TENDENCY TO CLOTHE ITSELF IN ITS PHYSICAL EQUIVALENT (and this is true, beyond any reasonable room for doubt), it is equally true that thought impulses of fear and poverty cannot be translated into terms of courage and financial gain. LACK OF SELF-DISCIPLINE. Sooner or later he will land on the rocks. On that occasion Carnegie planted in my mind theideaof organizing the principles of achievement into a philosophy of success. (also see two pages at front of book. He talked of the world future for steel, of reorganization for efficiency, of specialization, of the scrapping of unsuccessful mills and concentration of effort on the flourishing properties, of economies in the ore traffic, of economies in overhead and administrative departments, of capturing foreign markets. Moreover, he may travel by train, private automobile, bus, airplane, or ship, as his pocketbook permits. Two difficulties stood in his way. This calls for more millions of dollars for equipment, machinery, boxing, marketing, and for the wages of millions of men and women. "Later, on the deck of a trans-Atlantic liner, the Scotsman said ruefully to Morgan, 'I wish I had asked you for $100,000,000 more.'. The salesman who knows how to take his mind off the subject of sex, and direct it in sales effort with as much enthusiasm and determination as he would apply to its original purpose, has acquired the art of sex transmutation, whether he knows it or not. The ease with which lack of persistence may be conquered will depend entirelyupon the INTENSITY OF ONE'S DESIRE. In what ways have I rendered MORE SERVICE AND BETTER SERVICE than I was paid to render? The story begins with an incident in Boston, March 5, 1770. Second. THE HABIT OF DOING MORE THAN PAID FOR. But, transportation is only a part of the requirements of modern civilization in capitalistic America. Have your brief neatly typed or mimeographed on the finest paper you can obtain, and bound with a heavy paper of the book-cover variety, the binder to be changed, and the proper firm name to be inserted if it is to be shown to more than one company. EXPECTATION OF PAY FOR WHAT THEY "KNOW" INSTEAD OF WHAT THEYDOWITH THAT WHICH THEY KNOW. But he couldn't seem to make any progress. He now has a fleet of these bookkeeping offices "on wheels" and employs a large staff of assistants, thus providing small merchants with accounting service equal to the best that money can buy, at very nominal cost. Is It Money, Fame, Power, Contentment, Personality, Peace of Mind, Happiness? The emotions are states of mind. This is a free country, where all men are born with equal rights, including the privilege of ignoring the LAW OF ECONOMICS. Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition. This form of cooperative alliance has been the basis of nearly every great fortune. There was a time not so very long ago when street car conductors took pride in giving argument to passengers. When you begin with the thought impulse, DESIRE, to accumulate money, you are drafting into your service the same "stuff" that Nature used in creating this earth, and every material form in the universe, including the body and brain in which the thought impulses function. It is the knowledge with which favorable "breaks" can be made to order. It is through this faculty that one individual may "tune in," or communicate with the subconscious minds of other men. Do not wait. Moreover, by carefully selecting highly specialized courses, in colleges best prepared to teach the subjects chosen, Mr. Wier completed in two years the work for which the majority of law students require four years. I emphasized the principle described in the next chapter, with so much intensity that one of the members of the graduating class definitely appropriated it, and made it a part of his own philosophy. The plan she originated for his use was the finest specimen of merchandising of personal services I have ever seen. Because of ignorance on the subject, this state of mind is generally associated with the physical, and because of improper influences, to which most people have been subjected, in acquiring knowledge of sex, things essentially physical have highly biased the mind. "When I had finished and sat down, a man slowly arose from his seat, about three rows from the rear, and made his way toward the pulpit. ", "I will not accept it," the applicant replied, "because I AM GETTING MORE THAN THAT WHERE I AM NOW EMPLOYED.". (Make this rating fairly, and frankly, and have it checked by someone who is courageous enough to do it accurately). His mother saw to that, by visiting the teachers and arranging with them to give the child the extra attention necessary. The mixing, or blending, of these three emotions has the effect of opening a direct line of communication between the finite, thinking mind of man, and Infinite Intelligence. The favorable break came through Carnegie, but what about the DETERMINATION, DEFINITENESS OF PURPOSE, and the DESIRE TO ATTAIN THE GOAL, and the PERSISTENT EFFORT OF TWENTY-FIVE YEARS? Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill | Open Library In the professions of law, medicine, and education, a new brand of leadership, and to some extent, new leaders will become a necessity. Any man is educated who knows where to get knowledge when he needs it, and how to organize that knowledge into definite plans of action. Do you change your mind often? The experiments worked just as well at distances of several hundred miles as they did in the same room. In the majority of instances if you are determined to have the position for which you apply, it will be most effective if you offer to work for a week, or a month, or for a sufficient length of time to enable your prospective employer to judge your value WITHOUT PAY. There are several grounds for believing this. I mean reasonably young, decent and intelligent women. Waiting for "the right time" to begin putting ideas and plans into action, until the waiting becomes a permanent habit. Indonesian. For over fifty years "Ralston" has supplied hundreds of thousands--yes, probably millions of ambitious men and women with home study books that bring Health, Wealth, Power and Happiness. It brings one into communion with Infinite Intelligence.

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