Napoleon Hill
It is a well-known fact that one of the most difficult
tasks that any businessman must perform is that of inducing those who are
associated with him to coordinate their efforts in a spirit of harmony.
To induce continuous co-operation between a group of workers, in
any undertaking, is next to impossible.
Only the most efficient leaders can accomplish this highly desired object, but once in a great while such a leader will rise above the horizon in the field of industry, business or finance, and then the world hears of a;
- Henry Ford,
- Thomas A. Edison,
- John D. Rockefeller, Sr.,
- E. H. Harriman
- or James J. Hill.
Power and success are practically synonymous terms! One grows out of the other; therefore, any person who has the knowledge and the ability to develop power, through the principle of harmonious co-ordination of effort between individual minds, or in any other manner, may be successful in any reasonable undertaking that is possible of successful termination.
NEVER, in the history of the world, has there been such
abundant opportunity as there is now for the person who is
willing to serve before trying to collect.
It must not be assumed that a Master Mind will immediately spring,
mushroom fashion, out of every group of minds which make pretense of
co-ordination in a spirit of HARMONY!
Harmony, in the real sense of meaning of the word, is as rare among groups of people as is genuine Christianity among those who proclaim themselves Christians. Harmony is the nucleus around which the state of mind known as " Master Mind must be developed. Without this element of harmony there can be no Master Mind, a truth which cannot be repeated too often.
Woodrow Wilson had in mind the development of a Master Mind, to be composed of groups of minds representing the civilized nations of the world, in his proposal for establishing the League of Nations. Wilson's conception was the most far-reaching humanitarian idea ever created in the mind of man, because it dealt with a principle, which embraces sufficient power to establish a real Brotherhood of Man on earth. The League of Nations, or some similar blending of international minds, in a spirit of harmony, is sure to become a reality.
The time when such unity of minds will take place will be measured largely by the time required for the great universities and NONSECTARIAN institutions of learning to supplant ignorance and superstition with understanding and wisdom. This time is rapidly approaching.