INTRODUCTION TO THE MASTER MIND 7SOf the three, Henry Ford is by far the most powerful, if measured
in economic and financial power. Mr. Ford is the most powerful man
now living on earth. Many who have studied Mr. Ford believe him to
be the most powerful man who ever lived.
As far as is known, Ford is the only person now living, or who ever
lived, with sufficient power to outwit the money trust of the United
States. Ford gathers millions of dollars with as great ease as a child
fills a bucket with sand when playing on the beach. It has been said,
by those who were in position to know, that Ford, if he needed it,
could send out the call for money, gather in a billion dollars, and
have it available for use within one week. No one who knows Ford's
achievements doubts this. Those who know him well know that he
could do it with no more effort than the average person expends in
raising the money to pay a month's house rent. And he could get this
money, if he needed it, through the intelligent application of the
principles on which this course is based.
While Mr. Ford's new automobile was in the process of perfection
in 1927, it is said that he received advance orders, with cash payments,
for more than 375,000 cars. At an estimated price of $600 per car, this
would amount to $225,000,000 that he received before a single car
was delivered. Such is the power of confidence in Ford's ability.
Thomas Edison, as everyone knows, is a philosopher, scientist, and
inventor. He is, perhaps, the keenest bible student on earth; a student
of Nature's bible, however, and not of the myriad manmade Bibles.
Mr. Edison has such a keen insight that he has harnessed and com-
bined, for the good of mankind, more of Nature's laws than any other
person now living or who ever lived. It was he who brought together
the point of a needle and a piece of revolving wax in such a way that
the vibration of the human voice could be recorded and reproduced
through the early phonograph.
Edison first harnessed lightning and made it serve as a light for
man's use, through the aid of the incandescent bulb.