The year is 1936 and there is this trouble. No, actually, step back twenty four years and you see where this starts. Ford, Wanamaker, Eastman, Wright, Schwab, Rockefeller, Edison, Vanderlip, Woolworth, Graham Bell, and a handfull of other noteworthy kingmakers of the first world talk to Napoleon. They are dreamers and they talk quarter of a billion dollar dreams in a time when five hundred dollars per year is considered a fortune. Most of these men start from scratch, fail often, persist, get betrayed, scorned, arrested, and listen to all manner or nay sayers. They get setbacks, major and minor yet they persist talking about their dreams till history records the realisation of each of those dreams.
Quotation from Napoleon:
Life is strange, and often imponderable! Both ... success and failure have their roots in simple experiences.... common-place and simple enough, yet they hold the answer to our destiny in life, therefore they are as important as life itself. You profit by dramatic experiences because you analyze them, and find the lesson they teach. But what of the man who has neither the time, nor the inclination to study failure in search of knowledge that may lead to success? Where, and how is he to learn the art of converting defeat into stepping stones to opportunity?
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