How To Sell Your Way Through Life
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part will be quickly detected if you are given a position, and this will not help your case. I may as well tell you, here and now, that there always has been a place, and there always will be a place, for a man or a woman who has ability and sincerely follows the habit of rendering more service and better service than that for which he or she is paid. No matter how many business depressions may come and go, there will always be a place for the person willing to render such service. Moreover, the rendering of service in this spirit is the surest way to promotion. If you grade yourself accurately on each of the 17 principles of success and discover after completing your grading that your percentage is too low on any of the principles, you will have made a valuable discovery about yourself which, if acted upon, will enable you to prepare yourself to bridge whatever weakness you may possess. This grading should prove to be a profitable checkup on yourself, and it might well turn out to be the most important turning point of your life, providing it brings you face-to-face with yourself and portrays your personality as it really exists. HOW TO SELL YOUR WAY THROUGH LIFE 145 E1C20_1 11/11/2009 146 You need this self-analysis, whether you wish to use it to procure a position or not. Everyone needs such a checkup, and especially during these times, when so many people are trying to get something for nothing, and thousands are killing off their initiative, self-confidence, and definite- ness of purpose to go on government relief. If you are willing to throw yourself on charity and live without rendering useful service, this analysis will do you no good. It is intended only for the person who wishes to be self-determining and who truly is willing to earn whatever he demands of life. After preparing the copy for your letter of application and your personal grading on the 17 principles, if you have a feeling that your case has not been properly prepared, you may send a copy of your letter and grading to the author and either he or one of his assistants will look over your work and offer such suggestions for its improvement as may seem to be needed. Under no circumstances, however, will the author or his assistants under- take to write the copy for these documents. You now have in your hands, in this simple plan, the finest of all possible methods of selling yourself into any position for which you are qualified. The psychology back of the plan has been tried in thousands of cases, and I have never known it to fail to produce the desired results. The spirit of the plan is far more important than the mere wording of the application. Let me emphasize this important truth: It is so seldom that any person applies for a position on this sort of basis, that those who do so benefit by the law of contrast. Not one executive out of a hundred would refuse to investigate the merits of a person offering to work on the basis of demonstrating his ability before trying to collect pay. Why, do you know that some of the largest corporations in the world have regularly employed talent scouts out searching for young men and young women with just such a spirit of willingness to render service as the one here described? When such a person is found, he or she is quickly employed, and the gates to quick advance- ment are eternally left ajar. One final word: If you find the 17 principles helpful in procuring an opportunity to demonstrate your ability, think how much more helpful they may be if you make intelligent application of these principles after you get your foot inside the door! In other words, do not stop by using these universal principles of success to induce someone to give you a position, but go further and so use these principles that you can collect whatever you want or demand of life, as effectively as Henry Ford has used them. Read the grading of Henry Ford on the 17 principles, as given in another chapter, then compare yourself with Ford on each of these grades and you 146 NAPOLEON HILL E1C20_1 11/11/2009 147 may discover wherein you differ from Ford. The chances are a thousand to one that the difference between you and Ford is not so much one of intelligence or education, as it is in application and use of these 17 princi- ples of success, and the chances are equally great that you could so apply these principles in your chosen calling that you may go as far in your field as Ford has in his. There are no lazy men. What may appear to be a lazy man is only an unfortunate person who has not found the work for which he is best suited. HOW TO SELL YOUR WAY THROUGH LIFE 147 E1C20_1 11/11/2009 148 It is well worth remembering that the customer is the most impor- tant factor in any business. If you don’t think so, try to get along without him for a while. 148 NAPOLEON HILL E1PART03 11/11/2009 22:32:46 Page 149 III What You May Learn from Henry Ford E1PART03 11/11/2009 22:32:48 Page 150 E1PART03 11/11/2009 22:32:48 Page 151 E VERYONE has heard of Henry Ford, and most people know that he began at the bottom in poverty and illiteracy and by his own efforts climbed to the top. But few know, however, of the principles by which the great industrialist gave himself spiritual and economic freedom. Download 1.82 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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