| The First step towards RichesIn this chapter, | | | | business partner with a great inventor. So |
| Napoleon Hill talks about the starting point of all | | | | extraordinary was his desire to become the business |
| achievement - Desire. He writes that the desire or | | | | associate of Thomas A. Edison that he caught a |
| impulse to achieve something in life can be so great | | | | freight train to Orange, New Jersey because he |
| that any obstacles no matter how big or small can | | | | never had money to pay for the fare. After arriving |
| stop an individual from reaching the goal he has set | | | | he straight made his way to Edison office and |
| up for him. A person with burning desire, an | | | | presented himself and asked Mr. Edison for a |
| obsession with success can go to any lengths until he | | | | opportunity to become his business partner.Mr. Edison |
| succeeds. Failure does not bother him and in fact he | | | | was very impressed with Barnes determination that |
| uses it as a stepping-stone to fuel his burning desire | | | | he gave him a chance to work in the office at a |
| for achievement.Napoleon Hill mentions a couple of | | | | very nominal wage. |
| stories of everyday common people who in the face | | | | He worked with great eagerness but never gave up |
| of insurmountable odds came out victorious. Read on | | | | the desire to be his business partner. He waited for |
| to understand how desire can change a mans life.Mr. | | | | his opportunity and when it came in the form of a |
| Edwin C. Barnes had one consuming obsession of his | | | | new invention known at that time as the Edison |
| life; in fact it was a burning desire to become a | | | | Dictating Machine. Mr. |