On 27 Jun 2010 at 20:21, Dan Glover wrote: Hello everyone
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Platt Holden <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 11:48 PM, Dan Glover <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello everyone >> >> >> Napoleon Hill wrote extensively about this in the early part of the >> twentieth century. One particular story that stuck in my mind was how >> Dr. Hill organized a take-over of one of Andrew Carnegie's steel >> mills. He simply asked how much money Carnegie wanted for his mill. >> Carnegie wrote what he thought was an outrageous sum of money on the >> back of a napkin and handed it to Hill during lunch. >> >> Three days later Dr. Hill presented him with a check for the exact >> amount Carnegie had wrote on the napkin. It totaled three hundred >> million dollars. Some time later, Carnegie mused to Hill that he'd >> considered writing down five hundred million dollars but considered >> that sum too far out of the realm of possibility. Hill informed >> Carnegie that he would have gotten it. >> >> He'd have gotten it! Just for the asking! >> >> So. It is not just wishful thinking to believe we order the world with >> our thoughts. Ask and receive. It really is that simple. I guess the >> hard part is knowing just what to ask. >> >> Hi Dan, > > Is this the same Napoleon Hill who wrote the book, "Think and Grow Rich" > based upon the Thirteen Proven Steps to Riches? Dan: It is. Platt: I guess if a flap of a > butterfly's wings can create a hurricane that destroys a city, a thought can > create its physical equivalent. But then again, how come I'm ain't rich? Dan: There's an old joke about the guy who keeps praying, "Oh God, please let me win the lottery." He does this over and over and over, day after day. Finally, there comes a booming voice from heaven: "Buy a ticket!" Do you really want to be rich? And if so, have you bought a ticket? What I mean to say is, have you paved the way to riches by taking specific steps in obtaining a specific goal? Or have you pissed and moaned the fact you haven't won the lottery while all the while refusing to play the game? >Platt: > Still, a concept not to be dismissed out of hand. Dan: Sure it is. Which is why it doesn't work for most people. They never buy a ticket. And then they holler, why ain't I rich? Gee. I wonder. ;) Hi Dan, If Idealism was true (subjects create the world) I would make a world in which I was twice as rich. Regards, Platt Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
