All success begins with definiteness of purpose.

Generally, the youth just out of school seeks any job that can be found. He takes the first place he finds, because he has fallen into the habit of indecision. Ninety-eight out of every hundred people working for wages today, are in the positions they hold, because they lacked the definiteness

These facts give you a fair idea of what the reading of this book may bring to you, provided you know what it is that you want.

DEFINITENESS OF PURPOSE, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning DESIRE to possess it.

You can lay your finger on the particular group of principles which made Henry Ford rich, you can equal his achievements in almost any calling for which you are suited. You are "the Master of Your Fate, the Captain of Your Soul" When poet William Ernest Henley wrote the prophetic lines, "I am the Master of my Fate, I am the Captain of my Soul," he should have informed us that we are the Masters of our

If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance. Never, in the history of America has there been so great an opportunity for practical dreamers as now exists. The

A burning desire to be, and to do is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off.

Back of all this demand for new and better things, there is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

The Lord doesn't need anything "special" from you or me. He certainly doesn't need our counsel. When He sovereignly chooses you to do something great, He doesn't need your advice on how to go about it.

You and I can become so dedicated to the will of God, we can be so driven by a false sense of purpose, that we might inadvertently take matters into our own hands and leave God completely out of the loop.

Which should be an excellent reminder that when God tells you to do something, you'd better do it; He always has a reason.

That is the way God works. Without even a hint of warning, He speaks to ordinary people, on ordinary days.