All achievement, including every fortune ever built, have their beginning in an idea. The wealth comes from turning the idea from something we can see in our minds eye alone into something that serves other people, and for which they are willing to pay. This is done through auto-suggestion, organized planning, master-mind association and an inner harmony between the thoughts of your mind and the actions and achievements of your life. You literally become and achieve what you think about all day long. To control your life, control your thoughts.

1. Thoughts Are Things


Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe man can achieve.

Thoughts are very powerful when mixed with a definiteness of 

purpose and a burning desire for their translation into riches or other 

material objects. 

A man by the name of Edwin Barnes once turned up at Thomas 

Edison’s business and announced he had come to go into business 

with the inventor. 

Thomas Edison later said, 

‘‘He stood there before me like an ordinary tramp, but there was 

something about the expression of his face which conveyed the 

impression he was determined to get what he had come after. I had 

learned from years of experience that when a man really desires 

something so deeply that he’s willing to stake his entire future on a 

single turn of the wheel in order to get it, he is sure to win. I gave him 

the opportunity he asked for because I saw he had made up his mind 

to stand by until he succeeded. Subsequent events proved no 

mistake had been made.’’

In other words, an intangible impulse of thought can be transmuted 

into material rewards by the application of known principles. You can 

start with nothing except the capacity to know what you want, and add 

determination to realize your desires. To do this, you have to

overcome the habit of quitting when overtaken by temporary defeat.

Before success comes in any person’s life, they are sure to meet with 

temporary defeat and perhaps some failure. Often, success comes 

just one step beyond the point at which defeat has overtaken you. All 

you have to do is to hang on in there.

The answer you may be seeking to the questions raised by 

experiences in your life may be found in your own mind. One sound 

idea is all you need to achieve success. When riches begin to come 

they come so quickly and in such great abundance that you’ll be 

wondering where they had been hiding for all those lean years.

Riches actually begin with a state of mind and definiteness of purpose 

with little or no work. One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the 

average man’s familiarity with the word impossible. He knows all the

rules that won’t work, and all the things that can’t be done. Success 

comes to those who become success conscious - or those who are 

obsessed with success. Failure comes to those who allow themselves 

to be failure conscious.

Another common weakness is the habit of measuring everyone and everything by our own experiences. We can foolishly believe that our own limitations are the exact measure of everyone else’s limitations.

Every person is the master of their own fate - because everyone has the power to control what they think about. Brains become magnetized by the dominating thoughts that are held in the mind.These magnets attract the forces, the people and the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of the most dominating

thoughts.

2. Desire