الذي يطبّق هذا مبادئ?
قبل 1930, ال [مستر كي] نظامة بعت تلقّى يكون إلى 200.000 نسخ. الرقم الالناس يتلقّى يستفيد من ال علم نفس من عمل نجاح مسلك مجهولة.
ربّيت جزء هامّة من الالسّكان يتلقّى سابقا يكون, والأرقام ينموون أسّيّا ك ال [مستر كي] نظامة يصبح [مور ند مور] يعرف. هكذا والهدف من هذا قسم ليس أن يعدّل [ألّ ث] الناس الذي قد استعمل هو.
[هنل] قلت عمل أن يتلقّى أثرت بعض من قوّيّة والناس غنيّة في العالم, بما في ذلك هذه الأيّام أكثر مشهورة [سلف-مد] صاحب بلايين.
الهدف هنا أن يقدّم [ا فو] مثل من ال [برسبكتيفس] أنّ يكون يمكن مع هذا معرفة. هو جيّدة أن يزوّد شهيق إلى أنّ الذي يختار أن يدرس عمله. هو يبدي مثل من حيث هو يستطيع قدت, من ما شخص وحيد, أو [ا فو] رجال يستطيع طوّرت من فكرة وحيد.
يقدّم هذا قسم الناس الذي قد اعترف ويشكر شارلز [هنل] لعمله, أخرى الذي يكون شككت أن يتلقّى استعملت كتبه, وبعد أخرى الذي بوضوح يستعمل المبادئ يعلم بسيد [هنل].
أنت ستحقّق المبادئ, عندما يطبّق, بشكل مذهل فعّالة.
[نبوليون] [بورن] تل كان في فقر و [سترت ت] القعر كصحفية. While he was commissioned by Dale Carnegie to interview the highly successful people of his time and summarize the essence of his findings for everyone to use.
He spent over 20 years of his life on this project and interviewed around 500 very successful individuals, including inventors (Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, …), US Presidents (Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, …) and entrepreneurs (Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, …).
Napoleon Hill then published the result of his work in The Laws of Success.
He later condensed his understandings into one book: Think and Grow Rich, which became the cornerstone of many entrepreneurs’ education.
In 1919 (28 years before we wrote “Think and Grow Rich”), Napoleon Hill wrote the following letter to thank Mr Haanel for his work:
April 21, 1919.
Mr. Charles F.Haanel,
St. Louis, Mo.
My Dear Mr.Haanel
You probably know, from the editorial in the January issue of the Golden Rule, copy of which my Secretary sent to you, that I began twenty-two years ago as a coal miner at a dollar a day.
I have just been retained by a ten million dollar corporation at a salary of $105,200.00 a year, for a portion of my time only, it having been agreed that I shall continue as editor of the Hill’s Golden Rule.
I believe in giving credit where it is due, therefore I believe I ought to inform you that my present success and the success which has followed my work as President of the Napoleon Hill Institute is due largely to the principles laid down in The Master-Key System.
You are doing a good work by helping people to realize that nothing is impossible of accomplishment which a man can create in his imagination. Surely my own experience proves this.
I shall cooperate with you in getting your course into the hands of the many who so greatly need your message.
Cordially and sincerely,
Napoleon Hill,
Editor The Golden Rule
Chicago, Illinois
Bill Gates
Many web sites affirm unverified facts that Bill Gates has read the Master Key System.
Here is the rumor that can be found on the Internet: “Rumor has it that while he was attending Harvard University, Bill Gates discovered and read The Master Key System. It was this book that inspired Bill Gates to drop out of the University and pursue his dream of “a computer on every desktop.” You probably know the results.“
I personally believe these rumors to be highly possible; this kind of adventure: taking an idea “one computer in every home” to the completion of the project “We’ve really achieved the ideal of what I wanted Microsoft to become.” -Bill Gates, June 2008 is exactly what the Master Key teaches.
The moment I am writing these lines, contact has been taken with Mr Gates’ surroundings to assess the possibilities of confirmation of this rumor, and if the rumor is true, an interview.
This section will be updated when/if further news come.
Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs
The Silicon Valley is also subject to rumors about Charles Haanel being at the root of the ambient success in this area.
“It is Silicon Valley’s secret that almost every entrepreneur who made a fortune in recent years did so by studying the words Mr. Haanel penned over eighty years ago! Almost every millionaire and billionaire in the Valley read The Master Key System by Charles F. Haanel. Since this book was no longer in print until recently, copies of The Master Key System became a hot commodity in the Valley. “
Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are suspected to have exchanged and make circulates rare copies of the book, you know the result.
Click on the picture and see which companies we are talking about: Apple (not displayed on the picture), Cisco, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Yahoo, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Facebook…
Again, as explained for Bill Gates’ case, building a project from a simple idea is precisely what Haanel gives his students.
Therefore I wouldn’t be too surprised if this rumor was true.
The Secret
The Secret is an inspirational movie presenting the law of attraction that made a huge buzz in 2006.
The Secret is based to a large extend on The Master Key System, and on Wallace D Watles’ The Science of Getting Rich. Principles expressed in the movie can often literally be found in the Master Key System.
Surprisingly enough, while the Secret people confessed having found their insights in The Master Key System, no emphasis is put on Charles Haanel during the movie. Charles Haanel’s name isn’t even mentioned during the movie until the credits at the end of the show, in which we learn that an actor by the name of “Peter Lucas” plays his character.
Yet, many quotes, ideas and concepts presented in The Secret can be found in The Master Key System, often literally.
Rhonda Byrne, did a tremendous job drawing attention to the law of attraction, and she is correct about the coming new era.
What she forgot to highlight is that her movie was informative thus incomplete. The new era will come - not when people will learn about the law of attraction - the world will change when people will learn how to apply it in the bigger scheme.
This requires more than simply watching a movie presenting principles, it requires understanding, thus education.
“This is the Law of Attraction in action; this law being the common property of all, can be exercised by anyone having sufficient knowledge of its operation.” - Charles Haanel, The Psychology Of Business Success
Dr. Jean F. Howry
2129 Eastern Avenue.
Cincinnati, Ohio.
January 23, 1932.
Mr. Charles F. Haanel,
704 No. Ninth Street,
St. Louis, Missouri.
Dear Mr. Haanel:
As I visualize the tremendous good, the far-reaching effects your study “The Psychology of Business Success” must have for the truth-seeking individual, the desire to speed its universal ownership becomes a force unconquerable.
Had I been familiar with but one stanza in this course, the first paragraph of the seventh lesson, it would have saved me the loss of over $25,000 less than three years ago. This one paragraph alone is well worth the price of the entire course, a price which is not prohibitive.
Out of this study shall come a wealth of new ideas, some of which have already materialized. They shall reimburse me for the losses of the past. A new world has been opened to me, a world of unlimitable possibilities. The new vista, broadening into infinity, promises diamonds for cut-glass; life for mere existence.
If every man and woman in the United States would study and apply the principles taught in “The Psychology of Business Success”, we would indeed be a country of master minds; true wealth, in all its fullness, would be universal rather than abiding in isolated places; depression would be but an historical fact, illusion rather; disease would be wiped out from our midst; and our country would inevitably be the Land of Freedom, tutoring the world.
Mr. Haanel, you have indeed created a masterpiece.
Sincerely,
Dr. Jean F. Howry
Google’s Sergei Brin & Larry Page
What about Google? No company has ever provided such a revolution in the way we can access information, and so quickly met such an insane success. Did they also learn from Charles Haanel?
I’ll be clear, absolutely no rumor runs about Google and Haanel’s work.
Still, studying Haanel’s books and having read investigated about Google’s story, I cannot help but draw parallels between the two.
Here is the Google story in short:
While attending Stanford University, Sergei Brin and Larry Page were developing an innovative search engine they called Google.
As more and more people were using Google, the need for servers increased. They needed money. In August 1998, they convince Andy Bechtolsheim, a business Angel, to directly write them a check of 100.000$ (even though he doubted about the economical value of search engines, since well established search engines like Altavista were loosing money at that time).
This was even before Google existed as a company.
On September 7, 1998, Sergei & Larry decided to leave Stanford as students to incorporate Google as a private company, they had no idea on how they would generate income.
As the Google service was in high demand, the necessity for money to buy servers became higher and higher. In spring 1999, two famous capital risk investment companies: Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia Capital both invested 12,5 millions $ in Google.
Brin & Page managed to negotiate the funding on their terms and kept their independence. This was still done without any business model (= the concrete method used to generate income).
Their desire was to deliver the best search engine service and make it freely available.
Even though they didn’t have any idea on how they would earn money, they clearly had something in mind and were not at all pressed by the need to get money… This is revealed by the following interview Larry Page gave to the San Francisco Business Times:
Question: Tell me about the decision to remain private. Were you ever tempted to cash in during the market peak of ‘99?
Larry Page: Not really.
Q: What, you don’t like money?
Larry Page: No, I like it. We work hard to optimize our long-term value. We believe we’ll become bigger and bigger.
Now students of the Master Key System easily recognized some principles traces of people who use it like fire leaves ashes have already recognized the following principles:
A clear vision: “Our goal is to organize the world’s information and to make it universally accessible and useful.” - Larry Page
“The Secret of power is service” - The Master Key System “Google’s number one priority is on serving the user and creating the world’s most efficient and precise search engine.” - Larry Page
Today, Google still offers its search services to you for free.
“Wealth is the offspring of power” - The Master Key System: they manage to generate a sustainable insane income (after refusing the opportunity to quickly cash in during the “dot com bubble”).
“Knowledge of cause and effect enables man to plan courageously and execute fearlessly” - The Master Key System : they started from nothing and consistently acted boldly, never pressed by the need to generate money.
“This is one of the secrets of success, one of the methods of organizing victory, one of the accomplishments of the Master-mind. He thinks big thoughts. The creative energies of mind find no more difficulty in handling large situations, than small ones.” - The Master Key System: Brin and Page ended up billionaires at the age of 31. Look at the overall value of Google today… All of this was done in fewer years necessary to grow from baby to adolescence.
These are some of the many similarities one can find between the principles suggested by Charles Haanel and the story of Google.
If you decide to study Charles Haanel’s work, I encourage you to pick up a book telling the story of Google, you’ll find it interesting…
Others
“The English language is inadequate to express my appreciation of your Master Key System. It is indeed a key for those who read it with understanding, for they will find that it unlocks all the good things of life.” - Arthur E. Stillwell (Builder of the Kansas City and Southern Railroad, the Kansas City Interurban Belt Railroad, Kansas City, Omaha, and Eastern Railroad, Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railroad, Port Arthur Ship Canal. He is the author of “Live and Grow Young”, “The Great Plan”, “The Light That Never Failed”, and other books)
“The greatest blessing that any human being can ask is the ability to realize his own inherent powers and possibilities, and to make practical use of them. This ability is worth more to any individual than all the wealth of a Rockefeller, or even the surpassing genius of a Shakespeare. I venture to say that any intelligent person who will devote his attention systematically to a study of the Master Key System may become the possessor of this priceless treasure.” - Jas. W. Freeman (past Assistant Editor, Who’s Who In America)
“I have been both student and teacher of orthodox Theology, Philosophy, and Ancient History, combined with a perfect knowledge of over a dozen and modern tongues, and three complete world tours, at one time caused me to think that I had all the knowledge necessary for anyone to have.
I had enough education and was optimistic enough to know that somewhere, some place, there was some heretofore hidden power that caused all that ‘is’, and that a persevering search for it would perhaps locate it. Need I tell you of my studies of Confucius, Brahma, Buddha, Mohammed, Plato, Aristotle, and Darwin? Also all known religions from Shintoism, Druidism, and all the Christian Churches?
Through this I learned that in a combined knowledge of Metaphysics and Psychology, and its use, was that fifteen years of travel, search, and study had failed to reveal to me. Since taking up your Master Key Course, I have come to understand many things that I did not know. I have learned the Natural Laws - The Law of Compensation, and the Law of Cause and Effect.
I have found an at-oneness between the Creator and His created that no Theology has ever taught. The Master Key embraces all religions, all philosophies, and all knowledge. It is so simple that it cannot fail to be understood, and I hope to see it printed in all languages, and used in every school in the world.” - George L. Davis
“… The world needs arousers, awakeners, inspirers more than it needs anything else, and you are among those who are filling this need in a masterly way. ‘The Master Key System’ not only arouses, but it also energizes, keeps one’s ambition from sagging. It makes on dissatisfied with a cheap success, dissatisfied with a meager life, with half-hearted effort, dissatisfied with the lower when the higher is possible. Phillip Brooks used to say that no one would be willing to live a half life after he had gotten glimpse of the larger possible self.
Everyone who takes your course gets a glimpse of his larger possible life, and an aroused ambition to reach up to it. No one can go through it without feeling a new courage, a new impulse, a new determination to try a little harder to make good; to do something infinitely greater than anything he had ever done before. No one would be willing to go back to the old order of things after his eyes have been opened to the possibilities of the new order by those mind awakening lessons.
I believe that no one can go through them without great uplift and lasting benefit. Though their value cannot be measured by money alone, I may say that, personally, if I could not get another, I wouldn’t take a thousand dollars for my course.“
- Orison Swett Marden (former president and editor, Success Corporation - publishers of Success Magazine)
The Microsoft-Google-Silicon Valley syndrome
In many cases, the pattern is similar: students decide to stop their initial project of studies to follow a vision.
They start their adventure modestly (very often in a garage) and seem to meet success from the beginning. Their dedication and enthusiasm seem to literally explode their success. Ultimately, they become worldwide companies, leader in their field and become billions dollars monsters.
Throughout their adventure, they seem to use the many principles taught by Charles Haanel.
This is true for Google, for Microsoft, and for many of the Silicon Valley companies.
Now close your eyes and put yourself in the shoes of one of these entrepreneurs at the very moment they make the decision. What can make young students take such a bold choice in their life and meet such insane success?
“You must first have the knowledge of your power; second, the courage to dare; third, the faith to do.” - Charles Haanel, The Master Key System
What could decide this young student to become the biggest software provider of the world?
How is this impressive success met?
Now I don’t deny the possibility that they have done it naturally, or that they have learned it from another book, or from a mentor.
What is important is that it is highly possible that such a level of success is backed up by “some form of education”.
My guess is that they encountered this “education” and this triggered their choice of a new path. Is it a book from Charles Haanel? I’m inclined to think it’s highly likely the case.
And if not, it doesn’t make any difference. What is important is that it’s exactly what Charles Haanel teaches you, fast.
Now learn the Master Key System and the Psychology of Business Success yourself and forge your own opinion.
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