Two major principles from Napoleon Hill's philosophy: The Mastermind Principle and Applied Faith.
First of all, the first premise is that the Mastermind Principle is the medium through which one may procure the full benefits of the experience, the training, the education, and the specialized knowledge and influence of others as completely as if their minds were in reality, one's own. Isn't that a marvelous thing to contemplate? That whatever it is that you lack in education or in knowledge or influence, you can always obtain it through somebody who has it. The exchange of favours. The exchange of knowledge is one of the greatest exchanges in the world. It's a very nice thing to engage in business where the exchange of money makes you a profit. But I would a whole lot rather exchange ideas with somebody, give a man an idea that he didn't have before, and receive in return one that I didn't have, and I would do it. And an exchange of money. You, of course, know that Thomas Edison was perhaps the greatest inventor the world has ever known. He was dealing all the t...