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you may need much more specialized knowledge than you have the ability or the
inclination to acquire, and if this should be true, you may bridge your weakness
through the aid of your "Master Mind" group.

Andrew Carnegie stated that he, personally, knew nothing about the technical
end of the steel business; moreover, he did not particularly care to know anything
about it. The specialized knowledge which he required for the manufacture and
marketing of steel, he found available through the individual units of his MAS-
TER MIND GROUP.

The accumulation of great fortunes calls for POWER, and power is acquired
through highly organized and intelligently directed specialized knowledge, but
that knowledge does not, necessarily, have to be in the possession of the man who
accumulates the fortune.

The preceding paragraph should give hope and encouragement to the man with
ambition to accumulate a fortune, who has not possessed himself of the necessary
"education" to supply such specialized knowledge as he may require. Men some-
times go through life suffering from "inferiority complexes," because they are not
men of "education." The man who can organize and direct a "Master Mind" group
of men who possess knowledge useful in the accumulation of money, is just as
much a man of education as any man in the group. REMEMBER THIS, if you suf-
fer from a feeling of inferiority, because your schooling has been limited.

Thomas A. Edison had only three months of "schooling" during his entire life. He
did not lack education, neither did he die poor. Henry Ford had less than a sixth
grade "schooling" but he has managed to do pretty well by himself, financially.

SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE is among the most plentiful, and the cheapest
forms of service which may be had! If you doubt this, consult the payroll of any
university.

IT PAYS TO KNOW HOW TO PURCHASE KNOWLEDGE

First of all, decide the sort of specialized knowledge you require, and the purpose
for which it is needed. To a large extent your major purpose in life, the goal to-
ward which you are working, will help determine what knowledge you need.

With this question settled, your next move requires that you have accurate in-
formation concerning dependable sources of knowledge. The more important of
these are:

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