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--- Have you ever felt like there was something important you needed to do in your life but, you weren't sure where to start? Producing this newsletter is a key component of a much larger project. The size of the entire project has been like planning to scale Mt Everest. It started over two years ago with the idea of simplifying the learning curve related to learning the time tested principles of habitual success.
--- I can't guarantee you'll be more successful just from reading these newsletters but, I will guarantee what ever success you enjoy in life will be greater if you read, learn, understand and apply the principles presented in the "365 Lessons About Life." --- Turning this "be of service to your fellow man" idea into a reality has been a job and a half. I'm not a techie. Each step I've taken in the digital world required the equivalent of learning a foreign language. Reading, watching, hearing content on the Internet requires more training than I ever thought possible. Sometimes, it's a major blessing to be ignorant of how big the challenge is before you choose your goals. --- I felt like it was important to share these things with you because some of you signed up for this newsletter several months ago. I apologize to each and every one of you for how long it has taken me to deliver on my promise. --- Let's get started with the good stuff...
--- Have you ever felt like there was something important you needed to do in your life but, you weren't sure where to start? Producing this newsletter is a key component of a much larger project. The size of the entire project has been like planning to scale Mt Everest. It started over two years ago with the idea of simplifying the learning curve related to learning the time tested principles of habitual success.
--- I can't guarantee you'll be more successful just from reading these newsletters but, I will guarantee what ever success you enjoy in life will be greater if you read, learn, understand and apply the principles presented in the "365 Lessons About Life." --- Turning this "be of service to your fellow man" idea into a reality has been a job and a half. I'm not a techie. Each step I've taken in the digital world required the equivalent of learning a foreign language. Reading, watching, hearing content on the Internet requires more training than I ever thought possible. Sometimes, it's a major blessing to be ignorant of how big the challenge is before you choose your goals. --- I felt like it was important to share these things with you because some of you signed up for this newsletter several months ago. I apologize to each and every one of you for how long it has taken me to deliver on my promise. --- Let's get started with the good stuff...
You can have anything and everything you have ever wanted. --- You may doubt that statement but, it's true and I will prove it to you. There is a qualifier. You can't defy the natural scientific and mathematical laws of the universe. By that, I mean you can't fly like a bird, carry as much weight as an elephant, run as fast as an impala, or dive deep into the ocean like a whale. If what you want is attainable by anyone else, you can do it too. --- All species, including mankind, is born with four basic survival instincts. These instincts are designed to help you survive every situation in life you are likely to encounter. They are, (1) fight with the situation, (2) flee from the situation, (3) feed (benefit) from the situation, and (4) sexually reproduce with the situation. --- We were all born into a world that has laws, rules and regulations. These are the natural laws of the universe. The quicker you learn these laws and use these laws to your benefit, the easier your life will become. The easiest law to understand is "cause and effect." Your life, as it is today is the 'effect' of decisions and actions you have made earlier in your life. If you don't like the current 'effect', modify the 'cause' and your life will change. We'll study these laws in detail in future newsletters. --- Beyond the natural laws of the universe, each of us has psychological "needs", there are 16 primary needs in all. More to study at a later date. --- Another critical area to learn about is learning how people think. In your conscious mind you process ideas, decisions and actions. In your subconscious mind, you process your lifetime collection of beliefs, attitudes and skills. We'll cover that in detail as well. --- Some of the other topics we'll cover include, habit development, goals and goal setting, motivation, and procrastination. Each Saturday morning you can expect to see another new edition of "365 Lessons About Life." We welcome your questions, suggestions, comments and feedback.
Call to action. --- Take a blank piece of paper or several pieces of blank paper. Clear your mind. Begin to THINK about things you want; want to be; want to become; want to do; places you want to go; and things you want to learn more about.
As you write this list, I want you to do so with the ATTITUDE you're going to get everything you write down. Nothing more. Nothing less. You can have it all, you will have it all but, only if you write it down. Don't worry about how you're going to get these things, just write it down. Don't doubt that you will have these things, just write it down. Don't be shy, make your list a long one. Be good to yourself, write it down. Think of this as life's buffet. The Creator created an abundance of everything. You can have anything you want and, you can have as much of it as you want, just write it down. Warning! If you want something and you don't write it down, you're not going to get it. --- There is a road map, a recipe, a formula, an equation to having it all. Before you can have it all, you have to know what you want. Ask for a little, get a little. Ask for a lot, get a lot. Expect a lot, get a lot. Expect nothing, get nothing. It all starts by committing to paper a list of exactly what you want. Next week we'll reveal step number two in the recipe.
As you write this list, I want you to do so with the ATTITUDE you're going to get everything you write down. Nothing more. Nothing less. You can have it all, you will have it all but, only if you write it down. Don't worry about how you're going to get these things, just write it down. Don't doubt that you will have these things, just write it down. Don't be shy, make your list a long one. Be good to yourself, write it down. Think of this as life's buffet. The Creator created an abundance of everything. You can have anything you want and, you can have as much of it as you want, just write it down. Warning! If you want something and you don't write it down, you're not going to get it. --- There is a road map, a recipe, a formula, an equation to having it all. Before you can have it all, you have to know what you want. Ask for a little, get a little. Ask for a lot, get a lot. Expect a lot, get a lot. Expect nothing, get nothing. It all starts by committing to paper a list of exactly what you want. Next week we'll reveal step number two in the recipe.
Rule #1in broadcast journalism is to assume that the story you are about to report on is the first time some of the listeners or viewers will have heard about it.
Rule #1 in storytelling is, start at the beginning.
Coming up is the full story, told from day one.
This story began early on a Saturday morning, at a hole-in-the-wall bookstore, in downtown Jacksonville, Florida. I was 15 years old. What happened to me on that day was actually based on events that occurred in 1911 in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. And before that, 1898 in a back woods, small mountain town called Pound, Virginia.
On that day in 1960, 52 years ago, I found a book that changed my life forever. In the next email, I’ll give you a free pdf copy of this very special book. What was so special about this 50-cent paperback?
In the forward section of the book, the back-story of how this book came to be written was so impressive, the book had instant credibility as the most authoritative source of reliable information on the subject of being habitually successful I had ever seen.
The author, as a teenager, began earning his high school spending money by interviewing the most successful people in the boon dock region of Virginia where he lived and his stories were published in the local mountain-town newspapers. He continued doing these kinds of interviews as he earned his college degree in Washington, DC.
After college, in 1911, the author wanted to make writing his career. If it were possible to get an interview with the richest man in the history of the world, Andrew Carnegie, surely he could sell that interview to a major publisher. He wrote Carnegie in Pittsburg requesting a three hour interview. Much to his surprise, Carnegie agreed.
On the day of the interview, Carnegie must have been impressed with the author because as the three hour mark was approaching, the interview was still picking up steam. Carnegie paused and said, “I have so much more I want to talk to you about. Would you be my house guest for the next three days so we can cover all of the topics I’d like to discuss with you?”
The author was both excited and curious about Carnegie’s surprise offer. He quickly agreed. The house guest part of the offer was especially fortuitous because all the author had was enough money to buy a train ticket back to DC.
Over the next three days Carnegie, even though he was the richest man in the history of the world, confessed to the author he didn’t understand why everybody wasn’t rich. He thought there were only two possible explanations, either that average person had not yet learned something about becoming more successful or they weren’t yet doing something that leads to becoming more successful. To Carnegie, those were the only two possibilities.
Carnegie made the author another unusual offer, he said, “Based on your history of interviewing successful people, I want to give you a letter of introduction to my acquaintances like Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse and others like them. I want you to go interview these people and see what they think is the reason they’re so successful. I want you to do these kinds of interviews for the next 20 years and then, write a report on your findings. I want to know why some people are so incredibly successful and others aren’t. I want everyone to know they too can be incredibly successful and what they have to do to be as successful as they care to be. Will you take this assignment?”
29 seconds later, the author agreed. Afterwards, Carnegie said, “I started my stop watch when I asked you to take this assignment. Had it taken you more than one minute to decide, I would have known you were the wrong man for this job. Making quick decisions on good offers is one of the characteristics of every successful person I know.”
Rule #1 in storytelling is, start at the beginning.
Coming up is the full story, told from day one.
This story began early on a Saturday morning, at a hole-in-the-wall bookstore, in downtown Jacksonville, Florida. I was 15 years old. What happened to me on that day was actually based on events that occurred in 1911 in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. And before that, 1898 in a back woods, small mountain town called Pound, Virginia.
On that day in 1960, 52 years ago, I found a book that changed my life forever. In the next email, I’ll give you a free pdf copy of this very special book. What was so special about this 50-cent paperback?
In the forward section of the book, the back-story of how this book came to be written was so impressive, the book had instant credibility as the most authoritative source of reliable information on the subject of being habitually successful I had ever seen.
The author, as a teenager, began earning his high school spending money by interviewing the most successful people in the boon dock region of Virginia where he lived and his stories were published in the local mountain-town newspapers. He continued doing these kinds of interviews as he earned his college degree in Washington, DC.
After college, in 1911, the author wanted to make writing his career. If it were possible to get an interview with the richest man in the history of the world, Andrew Carnegie, surely he could sell that interview to a major publisher. He wrote Carnegie in Pittsburg requesting a three hour interview. Much to his surprise, Carnegie agreed.
On the day of the interview, Carnegie must have been impressed with the author because as the three hour mark was approaching, the interview was still picking up steam. Carnegie paused and said, “I have so much more I want to talk to you about. Would you be my house guest for the next three days so we can cover all of the topics I’d like to discuss with you?”
The author was both excited and curious about Carnegie’s surprise offer. He quickly agreed. The house guest part of the offer was especially fortuitous because all the author had was enough money to buy a train ticket back to DC.
Over the next three days Carnegie, even though he was the richest man in the history of the world, confessed to the author he didn’t understand why everybody wasn’t rich. He thought there were only two possible explanations, either that average person had not yet learned something about becoming more successful or they weren’t yet doing something that leads to becoming more successful. To Carnegie, those were the only two possibilities.
Carnegie made the author another unusual offer, he said, “Based on your history of interviewing successful people, I want to give you a letter of introduction to my acquaintances like Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse and others like them. I want you to go interview these people and see what they think is the reason they’re so successful. I want you to do these kinds of interviews for the next 20 years and then, write a report on your findings. I want to know why some people are so incredibly successful and others aren’t. I want everyone to know they too can be incredibly successful and what they have to do to be as successful as they care to be. Will you take this assignment?”
29 seconds later, the author agreed. Afterwards, Carnegie said, “I started my stop watch when I asked you to take this assignment. Had it taken you more than one minute to decide, I would have known you were the wrong man for this job. Making quick decisions on good offers is one of the characteristics of every successful person I know.”
HOW I FIRST LEARNED ABOUT HABITUALLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE
Rule #1in broadcast journalism is to assume that the story you are about to report on is the first time some of the listeners or viewers will have heard about it.
Rule #1 in storytelling is, start at the beginning.
Coming up is the full story, told from day one.
This story began early on a Saturday morning, at a hole-in-the-wall bookstore, in downtown Jacksonville, Florida. I was 15 years old. What happened to me on that day was actually based on events that occurred in 1911 in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. And before that, 1898 in a back woods, small mountain town called Pound, Virginia.
On that day in 1960, 52 years ago, I found a book that changed my life forever. In the next email, I’ll give you a free pdf copy of this very special book. What was so special about this 50-cent paperback?
In the forward section of the book, the back-story of how this book came to be written was so impressive, the book had instant credibility as the most authoritative source of reliable information on the subject of being habitually successful I had ever seen.
The author, as a teenager, began earning his high school spending money by interviewing the most successful people in the boon dock region of Virginia where he lived and his stories were published in the local mountain-town newspapers. He continued doing these kinds of interviews as he earned his college degree in Washington, DC.
After college, in 1911, the author wanted to make writing his career. If it were possible to get an interview with the richest man in the history of the world, Andrew Carnegie, surely he could sell that interview to a major publisher. He wrote Carnegie in Pittsburg requesting a three hour interview. Much to his surprise, Carnegie agreed.
On the day of the interview, Carnegie must have been impressed with the author because as the three hour mark was approaching, the interview was still picking up steam. Carnegie paused and said, “I have so much more I want to talk to you about. Would you be my house guest for the next three days so we can cover all of the topics I’d like to discuss with you?”
The author was both excited and curious about Carnegie’s surprise offer. He quickly agreed. The house guest part of the offer was especially fortuitous because all the author had was enough money to buy a train ticket back to DC.
Over the next three days Carnegie, even though he was the richest man in the history of the world, confessed to the author he didn’t understand why everybody wasn’t rich. He thought there were only two possible explanations, either that average person had not yet learned something about becoming more successful or they weren’t yet doing something that leads to becoming more successful. To Carnegie, those were the only two possibilities.
Carnegie made the author another unusual offer, he said, “Based on your history of interviewing successful people, I want to give you a letter of introduction to my acquaintances like Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse and others like them. I want you to go interview these people and see what they think is the reason they’re so successful. I want you to do these kinds of interviews for the next 20 years and then, write a report on your findings. I want to know why some people are so incredibly successful and others aren’t. I want everyone to know they too can be incredibly successful and what they have to do to be as successful as they care to be. Will you take this assignment?”
29 seconds later, the author agreed. Afterwards, Carnegie said, “I started my stop watch when I asked you to take this assignment. Had it taken you more than one minute to decide, I would have known you were the wrong man for this job. Making quick decisions on good offers is one of the characteristics of every successful person I know.”
Rule #1in broadcast journalism is to assume that the story you are about to report on is the first time some of the listeners or viewers will have heard about it.
Rule #1 in storytelling is, start at the beginning.
Coming up is the full story, told from day one.
This story began early on a Saturday morning, at a hole-in-the-wall bookstore, in downtown Jacksonville, Florida. I was 15 years old. What happened to me on that day was actually based on events that occurred in 1911 in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. And before that, 1898 in a back woods, small mountain town called Pound, Virginia.
On that day in 1960, 52 years ago, I found a book that changed my life forever. In the next email, I’ll give you a free pdf copy of this very special book. What was so special about this 50-cent paperback?
In the forward section of the book, the back-story of how this book came to be written was so impressive, the book had instant credibility as the most authoritative source of reliable information on the subject of being habitually successful I had ever seen.
The author, as a teenager, began earning his high school spending money by interviewing the most successful people in the boon dock region of Virginia where he lived and his stories were published in the local mountain-town newspapers. He continued doing these kinds of interviews as he earned his college degree in Washington, DC.
After college, in 1911, the author wanted to make writing his career. If it were possible to get an interview with the richest man in the history of the world, Andrew Carnegie, surely he could sell that interview to a major publisher. He wrote Carnegie in Pittsburg requesting a three hour interview. Much to his surprise, Carnegie agreed.
On the day of the interview, Carnegie must have been impressed with the author because as the three hour mark was approaching, the interview was still picking up steam. Carnegie paused and said, “I have so much more I want to talk to you about. Would you be my house guest for the next three days so we can cover all of the topics I’d like to discuss with you?”
The author was both excited and curious about Carnegie’s surprise offer. He quickly agreed. The house guest part of the offer was especially fortuitous because all the author had was enough money to buy a train ticket back to DC.
Over the next three days Carnegie, even though he was the richest man in the history of the world, confessed to the author he didn’t understand why everybody wasn’t rich. He thought there were only two possible explanations, either that average person had not yet learned something about becoming more successful or they weren’t yet doing something that leads to becoming more successful. To Carnegie, those were the only two possibilities.
Carnegie made the author another unusual offer, he said, “Based on your history of interviewing successful people, I want to give you a letter of introduction to my acquaintances like Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse and others like them. I want you to go interview these people and see what they think is the reason they’re so successful. I want you to do these kinds of interviews for the next 20 years and then, write a report on your findings. I want to know why some people are so incredibly successful and others aren’t. I want everyone to know they too can be incredibly successful and what they have to do to be as successful as they care to be. Will you take this assignment?”
29 seconds later, the author agreed. Afterwards, Carnegie said, “I started my stop watch when I asked you to take this assignment. Had it taken you more than one minute to decide, I would have known you were the wrong man for this job. Making quick decisions on good offers is one of the characteristics of every successful person I know.”
At the request of Andrew Carnegie, Napoleon Hill spend 20 years of his life (1911-1932) interviewing more than 500 of the most successful men of his era to learn, first hand, about their "secrets to success". In 1932, Hill wrote a report that stated there were 13 common denominators to incredible levels of personal success shared by each and every man he had interviewed. Unfortunately, the man who asked Hill to learn these success secrets and make them available to people like you and me never saw Hill's final report. Carnegie died in 1919, 12 years before the report was written.
Hill's report was book length but, he wasn't impressed with the final product so, he dropped it in a file cabinet and forgot about it for five tears. In 1937, Hill wanted to publish something but, the only thing that was ready to be published at the time was the Carnegie Report. He sent it to his publisher and they retitled the report the day before it went to press. The new name was, "Think and Grow Rich".
Think and Grow Rich became an instant best seller. Even today, after 75 years, it's in the top-50 best selling books of all time. The book has the reputation of inspiring more millionaires than any other book. Some say as many as 1,000,000 millionaires have been created following the advice laid out in this 15 chapter book.
Principles are timeless. Based on his sources, I believe Napoleon Hill is the single greatest resource of success knowledge available. I have spent my life studying his books, recording and videos. Nearly all top-tier personal development trainers today teach Napoleon Hill's Principles of Success. All future newsletters will focus on the learnable and duplicatable actions and activities of super successful people. I couldn't think of a better place to start than Napoleon Hill. I've read in psychology articles that we become a composite of the five people we spend the most time with. Through books, recordings and videos, what if the people you spent the most time with were the most successful people who ever lived? If you obsorbed the thinking patterns of these legendary, successful people, do you think you'd become more successful quicker than spending the same amount of time as you currently do with some of the people in your circle of friends? As my 7th grade science teacher said, "Water seeks it's own level." Mom said, "Birds of a feather flock together." And my dad said, "Tell me who your friends are and I'll tell you who you are."
Think of the successful people you read about in "365 Lessons About Life" as your personal board of directors, your teachers, or your guides. There's nobody out there that knows more about success than to people you'll read about in our newsletters. We all know WHAT they did, what '365' will be reporting on is the actions and activities of HOW they become so successful. What none of us may never know is WHY they did some of the things they did.
Motivation is a very personal thing. If you don't have a clearly defined, well focused list of reasons why, chances are, you'll never get very far in life. If your reasons why list is focused and means more to you than anything else in your life, there is no man on earth that can stop you from having anything you want.
Before I give you a copy of Think and Grow Rich I want you to know, Napoleon Hill was only a reporter. The people who contributed the actual content of this great book through their interviews were: (Just a few of the VIP's who shared their success secrets with the author.) --- Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry. As owner of the Ford Motor Company, he became one of the richest and best-known people in the world. He is credited with "Fordism": mass production of inexpensive goods coupled with high wages for workers. Ford had a global vision, with consumerism as the key to peace. His intense commitment to systematically lowering costs resulted in many technical and business innovations, including a franchise system that put dealerships throughout most of North America and in major cities on six continents. Ford left most of his vast wealth to the Ford Foundation but arranged for his family to control the company permanently.
--- William Wrigley Jr. (September 30, 1861–January 26, 1932) was a U.S. chewing gum industrialist. He was founder and eponym of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company in 1891. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Wrigley was also owner of the Chicago Cubs baseball team and Catalina Island off the California coast.
--- John Wanamaker (July 11, 1838 – December 12, 1922) was a United States merchant, religious leader, civic and political figure, considered by some to be the father of modern advertising and a "pioneer in marketing."[1] Wanamaker was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
--- James Jerome Hill (September 16, 1838 – May 29, 1916), was a Canadian-American railroad executive. He was the chief executive officer of a family of lines headed by the Great Northern Railway, which served a substantial area of the Upper Midwest, the northern Great Plains, and Pacific Northwest. Because of the size of this region and the economic dominance exerted by the Hill lines, Hill became known during his lifetime as The Empire Builder.
--- George Swinnerton Parker (12 December 1866 - 26 September 1952) was an American board game inventor and industrialist who founded Geo. S. Parker Co. and Parker Brothers. Publishers of games like Rook & Monoply.
--- Ellsworth Milton (E.M.) Statler (October 26, 1863 – April 16, 1928) was an American hotel businessman born in Somerset County, Pennsylvania.
--- Henry Latham Doherty - Founder of Cities Service Company which later became Citgo. The company traces its heritage back to the early 1900s and an oil entrepreneur named Henry Latham Doherty.[2] After quickly climbing the ladder of success in the manufactured gas and electric utility world, Doherty in 1910 created his own organization, Cities Service Company.
--- Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis (June 18, 1850 – June 7, 1933) was an American publisher of magazines and newspapers, including the Ladies' Home Journal and the Saturday Evening Post.[1] During his lifetime, Curtis' businesses were extremely successful. The Ladies Home Journal was for decades the most widely circulating women's magazine in the US and the Post had biggest circulation of any weekly magazine in the world. In 1929, the Post and the Journal together carried 40 percent of all US magazine advertising.[1] One source lists Curtis as the 51st richest person ever, with a fortune of $43.2 billion (adjusted for inflation to 2008 dollars), which according to this source made him richer than either Paul Allen or J. P. Morgan.[4]
--- George Eastman (July 12, 1854 – March 14, 1932) was an American innovator and entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak Company and invented roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream. Roll film was also the basis for the invention of motion picture film in 1888 by the world's first filmmakers Eadward Muybridge and Louis Le Prince, and a few years later by their followers Léon Bouly, Thomas Edison, the Lumière Brothers and Georges Méliès.
--- Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt ( /ˈroʊzəvɛlt/ ROH-zə-velt;[2] October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919) was the 26th President of the United States of America (1901–1909). He was a leader of the Republican Party Before becoming President, he held offices at the city, state, and federal levels. Roosevelt's achievements as a naturalist, explorer, hunter, author, and soldier are as much a part of his fame as any office he held as a politician.
--- John William Davis (April 13, 1873 – March 24, 1955) was an American politician, diplomat and lawyer. He served as a United States Representative from West Virginia (1911–1913), then as Solicitor General of the United States and US Ambassador to the UK under President Woodrow Wilson. Over a 60-year legal career, he argued 140 cases before the US Supreme Court. Davis is best known as the Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States during the 1924 presidential election, losing to Republican incumbent Calvin Coolidge.
--- Wilbur Wright (Wright Brothers), Orville (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) and Wilbur (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912), were two American brothers, inventors, and aviation pioneers who were credited[1][2][3] with inventing and building the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight, on December 17, 1903. In the two years afterward, the brothers developed their flying machine into the first practical fixed-wing aircraft. Although not the first to build and fly experimental aircraft, the Wright brothers were the first to invent aircraft controls that made fixed-wing powered flight possible.
--- William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860 – July 26, 1925) was a leading American politician from the 1890s until his death. He was a dominant force in the liberal wing of the Democratic Party, standing three times as its candidate for President of the United States (1896, 1900 and 1908). He served in Congress briefly as a Representative from Nebraska and was the 41st United States Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson (1913–1915). With his deep, commanding voice and wide travels, he was one of the best known orators and lecturers of the era. After 1920 he energetically attacked Darwinism and evolution, most famously at the Scopes Trial in 1925.
--- Jonathan Ogden Armour (November 11, 1863 – August 16, 1927) was an American meatpacking magnate in Chicago, son of Civil War era industrialist Philip Danforth Armour, and owner and president of Armour & Company. During his tenure as president, Armour & Co. expanded nationwide and overseas, growing from a small regional meatpacker, to the largest food products company in the United States.
--- Charles Michael Schwab (18 February 1862 – 18 October 1939) was an American steel magnate. Under his leadership, Bethlehem Steel became the second largest steel maker in the United States, and one of the most important heavy manufacturers in the world. Schwab began his career as a engineer in Andrew Carnegie's steelworks and in 1897, at only 35 years of age, became president of the Carnegie Steel Company. In 1901, he helped negotiate the secret sale of Carnegie Steel to a group of New York-based financiers led by J.P. Morgan. After the buyout, Schwab became the first president of the U.S. Steel Corporation, the company formed out of Carnegie's former holdings. After several clashes with Morgan and fellow US Steel executive Elbert Gary, Schwab left USS in 1903 to run the Bethlehem Shipbuilding and Steel Company in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The company had gained shipyards in California, Delaware, and New Jersey through its brief but fortunate involvement as one of the few solvent enterprises in United States Shipbuilding Company. Under his leadership (and that of Eugene Grace), it became the largest independent steel producer in the world. A major part of Bethlehem Steel's success was the development of the H-beam, a precursor of today's ubiquitous I-beam. Schwab was interested in mass producing the wideflange steel beam, but that was a risky venture that required raising capital and building a large new plant, all to make a product whose ability to sell was unproven. In 1908, Bethlehem Steel began making the beam, which revolutionized building construction and made possible the age of the skyscraper. Its success helped make Bethlehem Steel the second-largest steel company in the world. Bethlehem, Pennsylvania was incorporated, virtually as a company town, by uniting four previous villages.
--- Daniel Willard was a railroad executive best known as the president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad from 1910 to 1941. He established the B&O's reputation as a public-minded and innovative railroad. He is also remembered in Baltimore as a trustee (and from 1926 to 1941, chairman of its board) of the Johns Hopkins University.
--- King Camp Gillette (January 5, 1855 – July 9, 1932) was an American businessman popularly associated with the safety razor, although several models were in existence prior to Gillette's design. Gillette's innovation was the thin, inexpensive, disposable blade of stamped steel.[1]
--- John Davison Rockefeller (July 8, 1839 – May 23, 1937) was an American industrialist and philanthropist. He was the founder of the Standard Oil Company, which dominated the oil industry and was the first great U.S. business trust. Rockefeller revolutionized the petroleum industry and defined the structure of modern philanthropy. In 1870, he founded the Standard Oil Company and aggressively ran it until he officially retired in 1897.[1] Standard Oil began as an Ohio partnership formed by John D. Rockefeller, his brother William Rockefeller, Henry Flagler, Jabez Bostwick, chemist Samuel Andrews, and a silent partner, Stephen V. Harkness. As kerosene and gasoline grew in importance, Rockefeller's wealth soared, and he became the world's richest man and first American worth more than a billion dollars.[2] Rockefeller spent the last 40 years of his life in retirement. His fortune was mainly used to create the modern systematic approach of targeted philanthropy. He was able to do this through the creation of foundations that had a major effect on medicine, education, and scientific research.[7] His foundations pioneered the development of medical research, and were instrumental in the eradication of hookworm and yellow fever. He is also the founder of both the University of Chicago and Rockefeller University. Plus: Thomas A Edison; F. W. Woolworth; Woodrow Wilson; Wm. Howard Taft; Luther Burbank; Dr. Alexander Graham Bell; Hon. Jennings Randolph; Clarance Darrow and many others.
The short version of this part of the story is, if they were important, they were interviewed for Think and Grow Rich. The real "Master Teachers" are those that have done what you want to do, learn what they did, how they did it and then, you can duplicate their successes. Remember, The Principles of Success are timeless! If what they're telling you to do worked then, it'll still work today.
Hill's report was book length but, he wasn't impressed with the final product so, he dropped it in a file cabinet and forgot about it for five tears. In 1937, Hill wanted to publish something but, the only thing that was ready to be published at the time was the Carnegie Report. He sent it to his publisher and they retitled the report the day before it went to press. The new name was, "Think and Grow Rich".
Think and Grow Rich became an instant best seller. Even today, after 75 years, it's in the top-50 best selling books of all time. The book has the reputation of inspiring more millionaires than any other book. Some say as many as 1,000,000 millionaires have been created following the advice laid out in this 15 chapter book.
Principles are timeless. Based on his sources, I believe Napoleon Hill is the single greatest resource of success knowledge available. I have spent my life studying his books, recording and videos. Nearly all top-tier personal development trainers today teach Napoleon Hill's Principles of Success. All future newsletters will focus on the learnable and duplicatable actions and activities of super successful people. I couldn't think of a better place to start than Napoleon Hill. I've read in psychology articles that we become a composite of the five people we spend the most time with. Through books, recordings and videos, what if the people you spent the most time with were the most successful people who ever lived? If you obsorbed the thinking patterns of these legendary, successful people, do you think you'd become more successful quicker than spending the same amount of time as you currently do with some of the people in your circle of friends? As my 7th grade science teacher said, "Water seeks it's own level." Mom said, "Birds of a feather flock together." And my dad said, "Tell me who your friends are and I'll tell you who you are."
Think of the successful people you read about in "365 Lessons About Life" as your personal board of directors, your teachers, or your guides. There's nobody out there that knows more about success than to people you'll read about in our newsletters. We all know WHAT they did, what '365' will be reporting on is the actions and activities of HOW they become so successful. What none of us may never know is WHY they did some of the things they did.
Motivation is a very personal thing. If you don't have a clearly defined, well focused list of reasons why, chances are, you'll never get very far in life. If your reasons why list is focused and means more to you than anything else in your life, there is no man on earth that can stop you from having anything you want.
Before I give you a copy of Think and Grow Rich I want you to know, Napoleon Hill was only a reporter. The people who contributed the actual content of this great book through their interviews were: (Just a few of the VIP's who shared their success secrets with the author.) --- Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry. As owner of the Ford Motor Company, he became one of the richest and best-known people in the world. He is credited with "Fordism": mass production of inexpensive goods coupled with high wages for workers. Ford had a global vision, with consumerism as the key to peace. His intense commitment to systematically lowering costs resulted in many technical and business innovations, including a franchise system that put dealerships throughout most of North America and in major cities on six continents. Ford left most of his vast wealth to the Ford Foundation but arranged for his family to control the company permanently.
--- William Wrigley Jr. (September 30, 1861–January 26, 1932) was a U.S. chewing gum industrialist. He was founder and eponym of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company in 1891. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Wrigley was also owner of the Chicago Cubs baseball team and Catalina Island off the California coast.
--- John Wanamaker (July 11, 1838 – December 12, 1922) was a United States merchant, religious leader, civic and political figure, considered by some to be the father of modern advertising and a "pioneer in marketing."[1] Wanamaker was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
--- James Jerome Hill (September 16, 1838 – May 29, 1916), was a Canadian-American railroad executive. He was the chief executive officer of a family of lines headed by the Great Northern Railway, which served a substantial area of the Upper Midwest, the northern Great Plains, and Pacific Northwest. Because of the size of this region and the economic dominance exerted by the Hill lines, Hill became known during his lifetime as The Empire Builder.
--- George Swinnerton Parker (12 December 1866 - 26 September 1952) was an American board game inventor and industrialist who founded Geo. S. Parker Co. and Parker Brothers. Publishers of games like Rook & Monoply.
--- Ellsworth Milton (E.M.) Statler (October 26, 1863 – April 16, 1928) was an American hotel businessman born in Somerset County, Pennsylvania.
--- Henry Latham Doherty - Founder of Cities Service Company which later became Citgo. The company traces its heritage back to the early 1900s and an oil entrepreneur named Henry Latham Doherty.[2] After quickly climbing the ladder of success in the manufactured gas and electric utility world, Doherty in 1910 created his own organization, Cities Service Company.
--- Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis (June 18, 1850 – June 7, 1933) was an American publisher of magazines and newspapers, including the Ladies' Home Journal and the Saturday Evening Post.[1] During his lifetime, Curtis' businesses were extremely successful. The Ladies Home Journal was for decades the most widely circulating women's magazine in the US and the Post had biggest circulation of any weekly magazine in the world. In 1929, the Post and the Journal together carried 40 percent of all US magazine advertising.[1] One source lists Curtis as the 51st richest person ever, with a fortune of $43.2 billion (adjusted for inflation to 2008 dollars), which according to this source made him richer than either Paul Allen or J. P. Morgan.[4]
--- George Eastman (July 12, 1854 – March 14, 1932) was an American innovator and entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak Company and invented roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream. Roll film was also the basis for the invention of motion picture film in 1888 by the world's first filmmakers Eadward Muybridge and Louis Le Prince, and a few years later by their followers Léon Bouly, Thomas Edison, the Lumière Brothers and Georges Méliès.
--- Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt ( /ˈroʊzəvɛlt/ ROH-zə-velt;[2] October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919) was the 26th President of the United States of America (1901–1909). He was a leader of the Republican Party Before becoming President, he held offices at the city, state, and federal levels. Roosevelt's achievements as a naturalist, explorer, hunter, author, and soldier are as much a part of his fame as any office he held as a politician.
--- John William Davis (April 13, 1873 – March 24, 1955) was an American politician, diplomat and lawyer. He served as a United States Representative from West Virginia (1911–1913), then as Solicitor General of the United States and US Ambassador to the UK under President Woodrow Wilson. Over a 60-year legal career, he argued 140 cases before the US Supreme Court. Davis is best known as the Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States during the 1924 presidential election, losing to Republican incumbent Calvin Coolidge.
--- Wilbur Wright (Wright Brothers), Orville (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) and Wilbur (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912), were two American brothers, inventors, and aviation pioneers who were credited[1][2][3] with inventing and building the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight, on December 17, 1903. In the two years afterward, the brothers developed their flying machine into the first practical fixed-wing aircraft. Although not the first to build and fly experimental aircraft, the Wright brothers were the first to invent aircraft controls that made fixed-wing powered flight possible.
--- William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860 – July 26, 1925) was a leading American politician from the 1890s until his death. He was a dominant force in the liberal wing of the Democratic Party, standing three times as its candidate for President of the United States (1896, 1900 and 1908). He served in Congress briefly as a Representative from Nebraska and was the 41st United States Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson (1913–1915). With his deep, commanding voice and wide travels, he was one of the best known orators and lecturers of the era. After 1920 he energetically attacked Darwinism and evolution, most famously at the Scopes Trial in 1925.
--- Jonathan Ogden Armour (November 11, 1863 – August 16, 1927) was an American meatpacking magnate in Chicago, son of Civil War era industrialist Philip Danforth Armour, and owner and president of Armour & Company. During his tenure as president, Armour & Co. expanded nationwide and overseas, growing from a small regional meatpacker, to the largest food products company in the United States.
--- Charles Michael Schwab (18 February 1862 – 18 October 1939) was an American steel magnate. Under his leadership, Bethlehem Steel became the second largest steel maker in the United States, and one of the most important heavy manufacturers in the world. Schwab began his career as a engineer in Andrew Carnegie's steelworks and in 1897, at only 35 years of age, became president of the Carnegie Steel Company. In 1901, he helped negotiate the secret sale of Carnegie Steel to a group of New York-based financiers led by J.P. Morgan. After the buyout, Schwab became the first president of the U.S. Steel Corporation, the company formed out of Carnegie's former holdings. After several clashes with Morgan and fellow US Steel executive Elbert Gary, Schwab left USS in 1903 to run the Bethlehem Shipbuilding and Steel Company in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The company had gained shipyards in California, Delaware, and New Jersey through its brief but fortunate involvement as one of the few solvent enterprises in United States Shipbuilding Company. Under his leadership (and that of Eugene Grace), it became the largest independent steel producer in the world. A major part of Bethlehem Steel's success was the development of the H-beam, a precursor of today's ubiquitous I-beam. Schwab was interested in mass producing the wideflange steel beam, but that was a risky venture that required raising capital and building a large new plant, all to make a product whose ability to sell was unproven. In 1908, Bethlehem Steel began making the beam, which revolutionized building construction and made possible the age of the skyscraper. Its success helped make Bethlehem Steel the second-largest steel company in the world. Bethlehem, Pennsylvania was incorporated, virtually as a company town, by uniting four previous villages.
--- Daniel Willard was a railroad executive best known as the president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad from 1910 to 1941. He established the B&O's reputation as a public-minded and innovative railroad. He is also remembered in Baltimore as a trustee (and from 1926 to 1941, chairman of its board) of the Johns Hopkins University.
--- King Camp Gillette (January 5, 1855 – July 9, 1932) was an American businessman popularly associated with the safety razor, although several models were in existence prior to Gillette's design. Gillette's innovation was the thin, inexpensive, disposable blade of stamped steel.[1]
--- John Davison Rockefeller (July 8, 1839 – May 23, 1937) was an American industrialist and philanthropist. He was the founder of the Standard Oil Company, which dominated the oil industry and was the first great U.S. business trust. Rockefeller revolutionized the petroleum industry and defined the structure of modern philanthropy. In 1870, he founded the Standard Oil Company and aggressively ran it until he officially retired in 1897.[1] Standard Oil began as an Ohio partnership formed by John D. Rockefeller, his brother William Rockefeller, Henry Flagler, Jabez Bostwick, chemist Samuel Andrews, and a silent partner, Stephen V. Harkness. As kerosene and gasoline grew in importance, Rockefeller's wealth soared, and he became the world's richest man and first American worth more than a billion dollars.[2] Rockefeller spent the last 40 years of his life in retirement. His fortune was mainly used to create the modern systematic approach of targeted philanthropy. He was able to do this through the creation of foundations that had a major effect on medicine, education, and scientific research.[7] His foundations pioneered the development of medical research, and were instrumental in the eradication of hookworm and yellow fever. He is also the founder of both the University of Chicago and Rockefeller University. Plus: Thomas A Edison; F. W. Woolworth; Woodrow Wilson; Wm. Howard Taft; Luther Burbank; Dr. Alexander Graham Bell; Hon. Jennings Randolph; Clarance Darrow and many others.
The short version of this part of the story is, if they were important, they were interviewed for Think and Grow Rich. The real "Master Teachers" are those that have done what you want to do, learn what they did, how they did it and then, you can duplicate their successes. Remember, The Principles of Success are timeless! If what they're telling you to do worked then, it'll still work today.
An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had recently failed an entire class. That class had insisted that Obama's socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.
The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama's plan".. All grades will be averaged and everyone will receive the same grade so no one will fail and no one will receive an A.... (substituting grades for dollars - something closer to home and more readily understood by all).
After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little.
The second test average was a D! No one was happy.
When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.
As the tests proceeded, the scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.
To their great surprise, ALL FAILED and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great, but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed. Could not be any simpler than that. (Please pass this on) These are possibly the 5 best sentences you'll ever read and all applicable to this experiment:
1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.
2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!
5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.
The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama's plan".. All grades will be averaged and everyone will receive the same grade so no one will fail and no one will receive an A.... (substituting grades for dollars - something closer to home and more readily understood by all).
After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little.
The second test average was a D! No one was happy.
When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.
As the tests proceeded, the scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.
To their great surprise, ALL FAILED and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great, but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed. Could not be any simpler than that. (Please pass this on) These are possibly the 5 best sentences you'll ever read and all applicable to this experiment:
1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.
2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!
5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.