The Master Plan To Success andrew carnegie

Publisher: Napoleon Hill Associates Creative Vision Sdn Bhd
ABOUT 100 years ago, a young journalist, Napoleon Hill, was assigned to interview a list of famous personalities. The year was 1908 and on top of his work list was Andrew Carnegie.
Carnegie was in his 70s at that time. He was the founder of the United States Steel Corporation. He was also one of the richest men in America. The great industrialist is famous for the Carnegie Public Libraries which are scattered throughout the world today.
During the interview, Carnegie said: "It's a shame that each new generation must find the way to success by trail and error when the principles are really clear-cut."
Carnegie then urged Hill to draw up a practical philosophy that the ordinary man in the street can use. He then sprung a surprise on Hill. He asked if the young man was willing to devote the next 20 years of his life to this monumental task.
The catch was the tycoon would not be funding the project. Hill would have to find his way to the so-called Rainbow's End. Except for the financial incidentals like the occasional pocket money and travel expenses, Hill was very much on his own.
In his lifelong quest, Hill interviewed, among others, John D.
Rockefeller, Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Thomas
Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Henry Ford, George Eastman, F.W.
Woolworth, Charles M. Schwab and William Wrigley Jr.
This book was originally titled How To Raise Your Own Salary. It has 17
principles of success. All the wealthy and famous men whom Hill
interviewed over two decades had freely given their formulas of success
so that future generations the world over could benefit from their
accumulated experiences.
The 17 principles are Develop Definiteness of Purpose, Use the Master
Mind Principle, Develop An Attractive Personality, Employ Applied Faith,
Go The Extra Mile, Use Organised Individual Endeavour, Cultivate Creative
Vision, Exercise Self-Discipline, Organise Your Thinking, Learn From
Defeat, Seek Inspiration, Control Your Attention, Apply The Golden Rule,
Cooperate, Budget Your Time And Money, Make Health A Habit and Benefit
from Cosmic Habitforce.
This book is a treasure trove of some of the finest gems in life. If it
is at all possible, it should be made standard text in all Malaysian
schools at secondary level.
Its purpose is clearly to inculcate in Malaysian youths some of the
best values ever developed by masters who have walked the earth long
before many of us were born. The number of youths willing to absorb and
practise these principles is not as important as their awareness of these
values and virtues that can be adopted and developed by everyone.
The world has moved on since Hill's death on Nov 8, 1970. In his 87
years on earth, Hill wrote a number of significant books that have left
an indelible mark on many successful individuals who were fortunate
enough to read them. These books are Think and Grow Rich, Law of Success,
Napoleon Hill's Science of Success and Master Key To Riches.
Among these, of course, is The Master Plan To Success. It shall remain
one of Hill's most stirring personal statements on how to achieve success
in life. It is his great discovery after interviewing so many masterminds.
The entire project was destined to be Hill's work because those
historical figures lived during his time. It was also fated that he met
and talked to them.
This book is then the culmination of 20 years of hard work, from which
today we all are the beneficiaries.
After we have become successful, and lest we forget our humble
beginnings, Carnegie says: "Humility of the heart is the result of a true
understanding of man's relation to his Creator, plus the recognition that
the material blessings of life are a gift of the Creator for the common
good of all mankind."