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able plan to carry out the orders, but the thing seemed out of the question; "im-
possible!"

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NAPOLEON HILL THINK AND GROW RICH

At the end of the year Ford checked with his engineers, and again they informed
him they had found no way to carry out his orders.

"Go right ahead," said Ford, "I want it, and I'll have it." They went ahead, and
then, as if by a stroke of magic, the secret was discovered.

The Ford DETERMINATION had won once more!

This story may not be described with minute accuracy, but the sum and substance
of it is correct. Deduce from it, you who wish to THINK AND GROW RICH, the
secret of the Ford millions, if you can. You'll not have to look very far. Henry Ford
is a success, because he understands, and applies the principles of success. One
of these is DESIRE: knowing what one wants. Remember this Ford story as you
read, and pick out the lines in which the secret of his stupendous achievement
have been described. If you can do this, if you can lay your finger on the particular
group of principles which made Henry Ford rich, you can equal his achievements
in almost any calling for which you are suited.

YOU ARE "THE MASTER OF YOUR FATE, THE CAPTAIN OF YOUR
SOUL," BECAUSE...

When Henley wrote the prophetic lines, "I am the Master of my Fate, I am the Cap-
tain of my Soul," he should have informed us that we are the Masters of our Fate,
the Captains of our Souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts.

He should have told us that the ether in which this little earth floats, in which we
move and have our being, is a form of energy moving at an inconceivably high
rate of vibration, and that the ether is filled with a form of universal power which
ADAPTS itself to the nature of the thoughts we hold in our minds; and INFLU-
ENCES us, in natural ways, to transmute our thoughts into their physical equiva-
lent.

If the poet had told us of this great truth, we would know WHY IT IS that we are
the Masters of our Fate, the Captains of our Souls. He should have told us, with
great emphasis, that this power makes no attempt to discriminate between de-
structive thoughts and constructive thoughts, that it will urge us to translate into
physical reality thoughts of poverty, just as quickly as it will influence us to act