by Napoleon Hill
Available in 336 free installments
Owner:
John Burroughs
E. H. Harriman
Charles P. Steinmetz
Frank Vanderlip
Theodore Roosevelt
Wm. H. French Dr. Alexander Graham Bell (To whom the author owes credit for most of Lesson One). Of the men named, perhaps Henry Ford and Andrew Carnegie should be acknowledged as having contributed most toward the building of this course, for the reason that it was Andrew Carnegie who first suggested the writing of the course and Henry Ford whose life-work supplied much of the material out of which the course was developed.
Some of these men are now deceased, but to those who are still living the author wishes to make here grateful acknowledgment of the service they have rendered, without which this course never could have been written.
The author has studied the majority of these men at close range, in person. With many of them he enjoys, or did enjoy before their death, the privilege of close personal friendship which enabled him to
gather from their philosophy facts that would not have been available under other conditions.
The author is grateful for having enjoyed the privilege of enlisting the services of the most powerful men on earth, in the building of the Law of Success course. That privilege has been remuneration enough for the work done, if nothing more were ever received for it.
These men have been the back-bone and the foundation and the skeleton of American business, finance, industry and statesmanship.
The Law of Success course epitomizes the philosophy and the rules of procedure which made each of these men a great power in his chosen field of endeavor. It has been the author's intention to present the course in the plainest and most simple terms available, so it could be mastered by very young men and young women, of the high-school age.
With the exception of the psychological law referred to in Lesson One as the "Master Mind," the author lays no claim to having created anything basically new in this course. What he has done, however, has been to organize old truths and known laws into PRACTICAL, USABLE FORM, where they may be properly interpreted and applied by the workaday man whose needs call for a philosophy of simplicity.
In passing upon the merits of the Law of Success Judge Elbert H. Gary said: "Two outstanding features connected with the philosophy impress me most. One is the simplicity with which it has been presented, and the other is the fact that its soundness is so obvious to all that it will be immediately accepted."
The student of this course is warned against
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passing judgment upon it before having read the entire sixteen lessons. This especially applies to this Introduction, in which it has been necessary to include brief reference to subjects of a more or less technical and scientific nature. The reason for this will be obvious after the student has read the entire sixteen lessons.
The student who takes up this course with an open mind, and sees to it that his or her mind remains "open" until the last lesson shall have been read, will be richly rewarded with a broader and more accurate view of life as a whole.
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Contents of This Introductory Lesson
1. POWER what it is and how to create and use it.
2. CO-OPERATION-the psychology of co-operative effort and how to use it constructively.
3. THE MASTER MIND-how it is created through harmony of purpose and effort, between two or more people.
4. HENRY FORD, THOMAS A. EDISON and HARVEY S. FIRESTONE-the secret of their power and wealth.
5. THE "BIG SIX" how they made the law of the "Master Mind" yield them a profit of more than $25,000,000.00 a year.
6. IMAGINATION-how to stimulate it so that it will create practical plans and new ideas.
7. TELEPATHY-how thought passes from one mind to another through the ether. Every brain both a broadcasting and a receiving station for thought.
8. HOW SALESMEN and PUBLIC SPEAKERS "sense" or "tune in" on the thoughts of their audiences.
9. VIBRATION-described by Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the Long Distance Telephone.
10. AIR and ETHER how they carry vibrations.
11. HOW and WHY ideas "flash" into the mind from unknown sources.
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12. HISTORY of the Law of Success Philosophy, covering a period of over twenty-five years of scientific research and experimentation.
13. JUDGE ELBERT H. GARY reads, approves and adopts the Law of Success course.
14. ANDREW CARNEGIE responsible for beginning of Law of Success course.
