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set for the world, and they will apply to business the same tactics which he has
used in building the greatest following known in the history of the world. These
leaders will come from the rank and file of the unknown men, who now labor in
the steel plants, the coal mines, the automobile factories, and in the small towns
and cities of America.

Business is due for a reform, make no mistake about this! The methods of the past,
based upon economic combinations of FORCE and FEAR, will be supplanted by
the better principles of FAITH and cooperation. Men who labor will receive more
than daily wages; they will receive dividends from the business, the same as those
who supply the capital for business; but, first they must GIVE MORE TO THEIR
EMPLOYERS, and stop this bickering and bargaining by force, at the expense of
the public. They must earn the right to dividends!

Moreover, and this is the most important thing of all-THEY WILL BE LED BY
LEADERS WHO WILL UNDERSTAND AND APPLY THE PRINCIPLES EM-
PLOYED BY MAHATMA GANDHI. Only in this way may leaders get from their
followers the spirit of FULL cooperation which constitutes power in its highest
and most enduring form.

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NAPOLEON HILL THINK AND GROW RICH

This stupendous machine age in which we live, and from which we are just emerg-
ing, has taken the soul out of men. Its leaders have driven men as though they
were pieces of cold machinery; they were forced to do so by the employees who
have bargained, at the expense of all concerned, to get and not to give.

The watchword of the future will be HUMAN HAPPINESS AND CONTENT-
MENT, and when this state of mind shall have been attained, the production will
take care of itself, more effectively than anything that has ever been accomplished
where men did not, and could not mix FAITH and individual interest with their
labor.

Because of the need for faith and cooperation in operating business and industry,
it will be both interesting and profitable to analyze an event which provides an
excellent understanding of the method by which industrialists and business men
accumulate great fortunes, by giving before they try to get.

The event chosen for this illustration dates back to 1900, when the United States
Steel Corporation was being formed. As you read the story, keep in mind these
fundamental facts and you will understand how IDEAS have been converted into
huge fortunes.

First, the huge United States Steel Corporation was born in the mind of Charles