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M. Schwab, in the form of an IDEA he created through his IMAGINATION!

Second, he mixed FAITH with his IDEA.

Third, he formulated a PLAN for the transformation of his IDEA into physical
and financial reality.

Fourth, he put his plan into action with his famous speech at the University
Club.

Fifth, he applied, and followed-through on his PLAN with PERSISTENCE, and
backed it with firm DECISION until it had been fully carried out.

Sixth, he prepared the way for success by a BURNING DESIRE for success.

If you are one of those who have often wondered how great fortunes are accu-
mulated, this story of the creation of the United States Steel Corporation will be
enlightening. If you have any doubt that men can THINK AND GROW RICH,
this story should dispel that doubt, because you can plainly see in the story of the

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United States Steel, the application of a major portion of the thirteen principles
described in this book.

This astounding description of the power of an IDEA was dramatically told by
John Lowell, in the New York World-Telegram, with whose courtesy it is here
reprinted.

A PRETTY AFTER-DINNER SPEECH FOR A BILLION DOLLARS

"When, on the evening of December 12, 1900, some eighty of the nation's finan-
cial nobility gathered in the banquet hail of the University Club on Fifth Avenue
to do honor to a young man from out of the West, not half a dozen of the guests
realized they were to witness the most significant episode in American industrial
history.

"J. Edward Simmons and Charles Stewart Smith, their hearts full of gratitude for
the lavish hospitality bestowed on them by Charles M. Schwab during a recent
visit to Pittsburgh, had arranged the dinner to introduce the thirty-eight -year-old
steel man to eastern banking society. But they didn't expect him to stampede the
convention. They warned him, in fact, that the bosoms within New York's stuffed