| Riches are our target. When studying the ways to | | | | men and women in every calling. |
| improve your earning and personal financial potential, | | | | He believed the formula should be taught in all public |
| the focus has to been confined, exclusively, to the | | | | schools and colleges, and expressed the opinion that |
| instruction of how to transmute the definite purpose | | | | if it were properly taught, it would so revolutionize |
| of desire for money into its monetary equivalent. | | | | the entire educational system that the time spent in |
| This treatise is a Manifestation Manual for money, | | | | school could be reduced to less than half. |
| and while it is true, there is more to manifest than | | | | His experience with Charles M. Schwab, and other |
| money, we unashamedly adopt as our study, our | | | | young men of Schwabs type, convinced Carnegie |
| pursuit, and the education we give to worthy | | | | that much of that which is taught in the schools is of |
| students coming up the ranks, the application of the | | | | no value whatsoever in connection with the business |
| methods of manifestation to money. | | | | of earning a living or accumulating riches. |
| Besides, earned money brings actualization. And | | | | Indeed, it is true. They just do not teach people how |
| actualization fosters a life of contribution. | | | | to become outstanding, entrepreneurial contributors |
| From everything I have seen, independent wealth | | | | to society, or how to design and grow your own |
| gives you the height from which you have the vision | | | | business. Instead they focus on norming the |
| to decide how you would like to contribute to the | | | | population. Whether you like to admit it or not, you |
| earth and the inhabitants during your brief stay here. | | | | know it is true. |
| That is a thought of proportions vastly more grand | | | | When it comes to acquiring financial independence, |
| than the daily survival thoughts of the masses of | | | | not just a better job, a higher rung on the rat race, |
| humanity. Need you be reminded? | | | | study after study has detected no measurable |
| Fortunately, we are not studying the poor, but the | | | | advantage correlated to education. |
| wealthy. Truly, with the things that wealth gives you, | | | | Carnegie had arrived at this decision because he had |
| you can live even after your death. | | | | taken into his business one young man after another, |
| Witness the names written here. Names still | | | | many of them with little schooling, and by coaching |
| resounding in the ears of aware people even 100 | | | | them in the use of this formula, developed in them |
| years after their crowning achievements played out | | | | rare leadership. Moreover, his coaching made fortunes |
| on the stage of the living moment. | | | | for everyone of them who followed his instructions. |
| Have you heard of the Ford Foundation? How about | | | | The practical value of this philosophy in the chapter |
| Carnegie-Mellon University, Vanderbilt University, The | | | | on Faith, you will read the astounding story of the |
| Rockefeller Foundation. | | | | organization of the giant United States Steel |
| This is just a spattering of the worthy fortunes still | | | | Corporation, as it was conceived and carried out by |
| working in our generation from the acquisition and | | | | one of the young men through whom Mr. Carnegie |
| investment of wealth. | | | | proved that his formula will work for all who are |
| Of course, we acknowledge riches cannot always be | | | | ready for it. |
| measured in money. Money and material things are | | | | This single application of the secret, Actualization and |
| essential for freedom of body and mind. | | | | Manifestation by that young man, Charles M. Schwab, |
| There are some who feel the greatest of all riches | | | | yielded him a huge fortune in both money and |
| can be evaluated only in terms of lasting friendships, | | | | opportunity. Roughly speaking, this particular |
| harmonious family relationships, sympathy and | | | | application of the formula was worth 600 million |
| understanding between business associates, and | | | | dollars. And that at a time when a million dollars was |
| introspective harmony which brings one peace of | | | | still a staggering sum. |
| mind measurable only in spiritual values. | | | | Today, in the New Millennium, the much heralded |
| All who read, understand and apply this philosophy will | | | | Twenty First Century, in the upper middle class |
| be better prepared to attract and enjoy these higher | | | | neighbourhoods of cities around the world, a million |
| estates, which always have been and always will be | | | | dollar income is a common thing. Not so at the turn |
| denied to all except those who are ready for them. | | | | of the Twentieth Century, 100 years ago, when first |
| Actualization happens when the most highly achieving, | | | | setting the philosophy of success to paper. |
| contributing people get the most juice out of life. It is | | | | Put your ear balls on this one. If you were to take |
| necessary to have an independent income to do that. | | | | the 600 million dollars created from that single idea in |
| Manifestation and Actualization are two important | | | | 1903 and adjust it for inflation to today, that would |
| ingredients to fulfilling your desires. | | | | be approximately 12 billion dollars. |
| Conventional schooling is of no value. It was the | | | | Clearly the realm of Bill Gates thinking... another |
| Carnegie idea magic formula, which gave him a | | | | practical visionary who turned an idea into billions of |
| stupendous fortune and ought to be placed within | | | | dollars. |
| reach of people who do not have time or resources | | | | These facts and they are facts well known to |
| to investigate how people make big money. It was | | | | almost everyone who knew Mr. Carnegie , give you a |
| his hope that I might test and demonstrate the | | | | fair idea of what the lessons learned may bring to |
| soundness of the formula through the experience of | | | | you, provided you know what it is you want. |