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upon thoughts of riches.

He should have told us, too, that our brains become magnetized with the domi-
nating thoughts which we hold in our minds, and, by means with which no man

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is familiar, these "magnets" attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances
of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.

He should have told us, that before we can accumulate riches in great abundance,
we must magnetize our minds with intense DESIRE for riches, that we must be-
come "money conscious until the DESIRE for money drives us to create definite
plans for acquiring it.

But, being a poet, and not a philosopher, Henley contented himself by stating a
great truth in poetic form, leaving those who followed him to interpret the philo-
sophical meaning of his lines.

Little by little, the truth has unfolded itself, until it now appears certain that the
principles described in this book, hold the secret of mastery over our economic
fate.

We are now ready to examine the first of these principles. Maintain a spirit of
open-mindedness, and remember as you read, they are the invention of no one
man. The principles were gathered from the life experiences of more than 500
men who actually accumulated riches in huge amounts; men who began in pov-
erty, with but little education, without influence. The principles worked for these
men. You can put them to work for your own enduring benefit.

You will find it easy, not hard, to do.

Before you read the next chapter, I want you to know that it conveys factual in-
formation which might easily change your entire financial destiny, as it has so
definitely brought changes of stupendous proportions to two people described.

I want you to know, also, that the relationship between these two men and myself,
is such that I could have taken no liberties with the facts, even if I had wished to
do so. One of them has been my closest personal friend for almost twenty-five
years, the other is my own son. The unusual success of these two men, success
which they generously accredit to the principle described in the next chapter,
more than justifies this personal reference as a means of emphasizing the far-
flung power of this principle.