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What does it mean?
All wealth and success originate from creative thoughts and concepts.
In plain terms
Money and success start as ideas in your head.
What can you take from it?
Value ideas as the root of all wealth.

Where it applies

  • starting a company
  • investing
  • career planning

Putting it to work

  • capture ideas
  • refine concepts
  • execute plans

Questions to consider

  • What ideas do you have?
  • How will you turn them into value?

Another view

Ideas alone are common; execution determines actual fortune.

More from Napoleon Hill

  1. Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

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  2. If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

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  3. Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

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