How To Sell Your Way Through Life
parties, so popular in this age, collect a heavy toll in two ways from all who
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parties, so popular in this age, collect a heavy toll in two ways from all who indulge in them: Their victims pay in loss of efficiency, which means loss of earning capacity, and they pay sooner or later in loss of health. Young people can, because of the endurance of youth, make tremen- dous inroads upon their vitality without apparent effects. There comes a time, however, when these debts against one’s health must be paid. Nature attends to this! She keeps a set of books in which every item is recorded. Moreover, she forces the individual to become his or her own bookkeeper. The charges compiled through the indiscretions of youth are collected through the infirmities of old age. A little while ago, I was called to a hospital to visit a former schoolmate whose habits of youth have piled up a huge account against his old age reserve. He had not yet reached old age, but his account had been so grossly overdrawn that Nature brought him into the debtor’s court for settlement. He was suffering from partial paralysis of the brain! In plain English, he was on the road to insanity. All this may sound like a prohibitionist’s preachment against drink. It is more than that. This acquaintance had cut himself down through excesses in 134 NAPOLEON HILL E1C19_1 11/11/2009 135 eating, drinking, and sexual expression for over ten years, using up his eight- hour recreational period and making serious inroads upon the other two. I went to see him at the hospital for the purpose of helping him out of his financial difficulties. Excesses take a financial toll as well as a physical toll. I have never desired to be a reformer or a preacher! This is a book on the subject of marketing personal services effectively. Nothing can be marketed effectively unless the product to be marketed has value. It has been my aim throughout these pages to describe what constitutes valuable services. It is hoped that some suggestion or statement may throw light upon your own situation and point out the way to a more effective marketing of your personal services. During my public career, I have observed the methods used by thousands of successful men in selling their way through life. Space does not permit a description of the methods used by all these men, but I have chosen from the group one man whose principles of selling himself are described in detail. The man chosen is Henry Ford, known the world over for his ability to get whatever he wants without violating the rights of his fellow men. I have chosen Ford for my analysis of men who successfully sell their way through life, because he has used the same principles every successful person must use. I have chosen Ford for the reason that I have had the privilege of closely observing him over so long a period of years that I feel sure I understand the principles underlying his success. Do not browse through the Ford analysis or read it hurriedly. It is worthy of slow reading and careful analysis, because it conveys the material of which you may easily build your own successful life. The story has not been included to glorify Ford. The sole purpose in publishing it is to place in the hands of every reader an accurate outline of the plans and principles that have made America’s most successful businessman the success that everyone knows him to be. You are especially requested to study carefully the rating given Ford on the Principles of Individual Achievement. After you finish reading this book, come back to the Ford analysis and take inventory of yourself, measuring yourself honestly and frankly by these principles. If you do this faithfully, you may discover what the major points of difference are between you and Henry Ford. The discovery, if accurately made, may both shock and benefit you! It is well worth trying. This book on personal promotion would hardly be complete without a description of the methods by which the world’s leading industrialist lifted himself from poverty to plenty. As you read the analysis of Henry Ford’s astounding achievements, you should remember he was no outstanding HOW TO SELL YOUR WAY THROUGH LIFE 135 E1C19_1 11/11/2009 136 genius at the start, had but little schooling and was a pioneer in a new industry at a time when the entire country was unfriendly toward him and his ‘‘horseless buggy.’’ Do not make the mistake of assuming that Ford began in an age blessed with greater opportunities than those available at the present. The truth is just the opposite, and coincidental as it may seem, Ford’s influence on civilization has actually had much to do with creating the more extensive opportunities that exist today. His influence has helped to bring the country and the city dweller into closer contact because of the wonderful system of good roads that belts the entire nation. He has provided employment for more people than any other man living. He has proved that an American citizen may start from scratch, without pull or financial backing, and accumulate a vast fortune without violating the rights of others; and I wish to emphasize one truth above all others, namely, the principles employed by Ford in his climb to opulence are understandable and usable by any person who has the ambition to appropriate them. Did you ever think of that? Ford is a self-made man in the true sense of the term. If ever a man sold his way through life successfully, with his own brain and his own ideas, that man is Henry Ford. His story has been included in this book because his entire life represents one of the finest jobs of selling the world has ever known. There has been no scandal connected with the Ford methods of selling. He has helped everyone whom he has influenced. Every dollar of his fortune is being used constructively. He has established an all-time high standard of business ethics that every other individual might do well to emulate. I have begun my analysis of Ford by describing the one principle which, more than all others, has been responsible for the stupendous success he has achieved, the principle of singleness of purpose. That was all Ford had as an operating capital to begin with, but it was enough. Remember this, you who wish to emulate Ford, and remember, too, that you are reading an analysis of the number one citizen and successful businessman of the entire world. Here’s a good joke to play on your employer: Get to your work a little earlier and leave a little later than you are supposed to. Handle his tools as if they belonged to you. Go out of your way to say a kind word about him to your fellow workers. 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