Think and Grow Rich!

from the time he became a personal friend of Thomas A. Edison, and you will begin to understand what the influence of one mind upon another can accomplish. Goa step further and consider the fact that Mr. Ford’s most outstanding achievements began from the time that he formed the acquaintances of Harvey Firestone, John Burroughs, and Luther Burbank
(each an individual of great intellectual capacity, and you will have further evidence that POWER maybe produced through a friendly alliance of minds.
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There is little, if any, doubt that Henry Ford was one of the best informed leaders of the business and industrial world of his time. The question of his wealth needs no discussion. Analyze Mr. Ford’s intimate personal friends, some of whom have already been mentioned, and you will be prepared to understand the following statement Individuals take on the nature and the habits and the POWER OF THOUGHT of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony.”
Henry Ford whipped poverty, illiteracy, and ignorance by allying himself with great minds, whose vibrations of thought he absorbed into his own mind. Through his association with Edison, Burbank, Burroughs,
and Firestone, Mr. Ford added to his own brainpower the sum and substance of the intelligence, experience, knowledge, and spiritual forces of these four individuals. Moreover, he appropriated and made use of the
Master Mind Principle through the methods of procedure described in this book.
This principle is available to you!
I have already mentioned Mahatma Gandhi. Perhaps the majority of people who know anything about Gandhi look upon him as merely an eccentric little man who went around without formal wearing apparel making trouble for the British Government.
In reality, Gandhi was not eccentric, but HE WAS THE MOST
POWERFUL MAN ALIVE DURING HIS TIME (judging by the number of followers he had and their faith in him. Moreover, he is arguably one of the most powerful individuals who have ever lived. His power was passive,
but it was real.
Let us study the method by which he attained his stupendous POWER.
It maybe explained in a few words. He attained POWER through inducing more than 200 million people to cooperate, with mind and body, in a spirit of HARMONY, fora DEFINITE PURPOSE.

In brief, Gandhi accomplished a MIRACLE, for it is a miracle when million people can be induced—not forced—to cooperate in a spirit of
HARMONY fora limitless time. If you doubt that this is a miracle, try to induce ANY TWO PERSONS to cooperate in a spirit of harmony for any length of time.
Every individual who manages a business knows what a difficult matter it is to get employees to work together in a spirit even remotely resembling HARMONY.
The list of the chief sources from which POWER maybe attained is headed, as has been shown, by INFINITE INTELLIGENCE. When two or more people coordinate in a spirit of HARMONY and work toward a definite objective, they place themselves in a position through that alliance to absorb power directly from the great universal storehouse of Infinite
Intelligence. This is the greatest of all sources of POWER. It is the source to which the genius turns. It is the source to which every great leader turns,
whether consciously or not.
The other two major sources from which the knowledge necessary for the accumulation of POWER maybe obtained—“accumulated experience”
and experiment and research”—are no more reliable than the five human senses. The senses are not always reliable. However, Infinite Intelligence
DOES NOT ERR.
In subsequent chapters, the methods by which Infinite Intelligence maybe most readily contacted will be adequately described.
This book is not a course on religion. No fundamental principle described in this book should be interpreted as being intended to interfere either directly or indirectly with any person’s religious habits. This book is confined, primarily, to instructing the reader how to transmute the
DEFINITE PURPOSE OF DESIRE FOR MONEY into its monetary equivalent.
Read, THINK, and meditate as you read. Soon the entire subject will unfold, and you will see it in perspective. For now, you are seeing the detail
of the individual chapters.
Money is shy and elusive. It must be wooed and won by methods not unlike those used by the determined lover in pursuit of the beloved. And,
coincidental as it is, the POWER used in the wooing of money is not greatly different from that used in wooing a person. That power, when successfully

used in the pursuit of money, must be mixed with FAITH. It must be mixed with DESIRE. It must be mixed with PERSISTENCE. It must be applied through a plan, and that plan must beset into ACTION.
When money comes in quantities known as the big money it flows to the one who accumulates it as easily as water flows downhill. There exists in life a great unseen STREAM OF POWER which maybe compared to a river—except that one side flows in one direction, carrying all who get into that side of the stream onward and upward to WEALTH, while the other side flows in the opposite direction, carrying all who are unfortunate enough to get into it (and notable to extricate themselves from it),
downstream to misery and POVERTY.
Every person who has accumulated a great fortune has recognized the existence of this stream of life. It consists of one’s THINKING PROCESS.
The positive emotions of thought form the side of the stream which carries one to fortune. The negative emotions form the side which carries one down to poverty.
Understanding that you yourself can control where you will be in this stream of life is of stupendous importance to the person who is following this book with the object of accumulating a fortune, for such understanding leads to the recognition that ANYBODY can WISH for riches, and most people do, but only a few know that a definite plan, plus a BURNING
DESIRE for wealth, are the only dependable means of accumulating wealth.
If you find yourself in the side of the stream of life which leads to poverty, understand that you have within you the power to propel yourself over to the other side of the stream. Your oar is the philosophy and the principles set forth in this book. They can serve you ONLY through application and use. Merely reading and passing judgment on these principles, either one way or another, will in noway benefit you. You must take your oar in hand and ACT.
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Some people undergo the experience of alternating between the positive and negative sides of the stream, being at times on the positive side and at times on the negative side. Recent economic hard times have swept millions of people from the positive to the negative side of the stream.
These millions are struggling, some of them in desperation and fear, to get back to the positive side of the stream. This book was written especially for those millions.

Poverty and riches often change places. Rapidly changing economic conditions have taught the world this truth, although many people may not long remember the lesson. Poverty may, and generally does, voluntarily take the place of riches. When riches take the place of poverty, the change is usually brought about through well-conceived and carefully executed
PLANS. Poverty needs no plan. It needs no one to aid it because it is bold and ruthless. Riches are shy and timid. They have to be attracted. But they will rarely be attracted, and retained, until one learns, first, to tap the
POWER OF THE MASTERMIND, and then proceed to understand The
Tenth Step to Riches, which involves the Mystery of Sex Transmutation.”

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