Personal Development

Five years ago he retired from active business, with more money than he needs or can use, wealth that he accumulated in partnership with Edison.

Opportunity, capital, co-operation from other men and all other essentials for success gravitate to the man who knows what he wants! Vitalize your mind with a DEFINITE PURPOSE and immediately your mind becomes a magnet, which attracts everything that harmonizes with that purpose.

James J. Hill, the great railroad builder, was a poorly paid telegraph operator. Moreover, he had reached the age of forty and was still ticking away at the telegraph key without any outward appearances of success. Then something of importance happened!

Of importance to Hill and to the people of the United States. He formed the DEFINITE PURPOSE of building a railroad across the great waste desert of the West. Without reputation, without capital, without encouragement from others James J. Hill got the capital and built the greatest of all the railroad systems of the United States. Woolworth was a poorly paid clerk in a general store.

In his mind's eye he saw a chain of novelty stores specializing on five and ten cent sales. That chain of stores became his DEFINITE PURPOSE. He made that purpose come true, and with it more millions than he could use.

Cyrus H. K. Curtis selected, as his DEFINITE PURPOSE, the publishing of the world's greatest magazine. Starting with nothing but the name Saturday Evening Post, and opposed by friends and advisers who said It couldn't be done, he transformed that purpose into reality.

Martin W. Littleton is the most highly paid lawyer in the world. It is said that he will accept no retainer under $50,000.00. When he was twelve years old he had never been inside of a school room. He went to hear a lawyer defend a murderer.

That speech so impressed him that he grabbed hold of his father's hand and said, Some day I am going to be the best lawyer in the United States and make speeches like that man. Fine chance for an ignorant mountain youth to become a great lawyer, someone might say, but remember that NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE TO THE MAN WHO KNOWS WHAT HE WANTS AND MAKES UP HIS MIND TO GET IT.