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Vintage Essays By Judy Williamson, Director of the Napoleon Hill World Learning Center at Purdue University Calumnet

Dear Readers,

The reason you will be attracted to successful people is because of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s law of compensation. Authors more than 100 years ago wrote about the law of compensation, which simply states that if you do excellent work, either you will be recognized by your employer and given salary increases and promotions, or another employer will discover your talents and hire you away from your present employer. This was what happened to me when I got into the banking business. I had worked in the consumer finance industry for about 13 years, and I had earned an excellent reputation for my work. The new bank was only a year old and was terribly deficient in qualified personnel, especially in the area of lending and collections, which was my area of expertise.

I have never had to seek full-time employment since I first became employed. Employers will seek you out if you make your skills the best in your particular line of work.

You will be able to market yourself with very little effort if you choose to associate with other successful people. Success attracts success, and failure attracts failure. Like attracts like, and that is not a new principle, in spite of recent books written on the subject.

My dear mother used to tell my brothers and me, “Birds of a feather flock together.” We probably pretended to not know what she meant, but her advice was as worthwhile then as it is today. We are all social creatures, and we easily take on the characteristics of those we spend our time with. Today, I recall the advice of the late Charlie “Tremendous” Jones, who said, “We will be the same in five years from now as we are today, except for two things, and those are the books we read and the people we meet.”

 

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Don Green
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The Law of Success

This is the fourth of a series of excerpts from Napoleon Hill’s Golden Rules.

The Law of Compensation
by Napoleon Hill

The law of compensation is no respecter of persons. It operates for or against the rich and the poor alike. It is as immutable as the law of gravitation. If it were not so, this planet which we call earth would not roll on and on throughout immeasurable time and space, keeping ever in its true course. It is the equalizing force which balances the ‘‘eternal scales’’ and keeps the planets in their places.

The law of compensation permits no voids or hollow places anywhere in the universe. What is taken away from one place is replaced by something else.

Read Emerson’s essay on compensation. It will lay the foundation in your mind for the development of that much-sought quality called ‘‘balance’’ or ‘‘sense of proportions’’ which marks the man or the woman who attains to great heights in the field of business, industry, or the professions.

The law of compensation never seems pushed for time, often deferring both its penalties and rewards over long periods. That which it exacts from one, generally as a penalty, is given over to the next generation as a reward. That which it takes away from the individual, it gives back to the offspring, or to the race as a whole. The law of compensation is no cheater, nor will it tolerate cheating. It squares its accounts to the penny and to every act and thought, demanding its debts and paying its rewards with an unvarying exactness.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.

The world war was a tremendous shock to humanity and a tremendous loss to the world, but already we can begin to see the compensating advantages that grew out of it.

For example, we have learned the folly of trying to ‘‘impose’’ rulership from the top without the consent of those ruled, through so-called ‘‘divine’’ righters. We have been reminded of Lincoln’s famous words concerning a ‘‘government of the people, by the people, for the people,’’ and we know that his idea was sound.

We have learned, also, the folly of religious and racial intolerance; that all the people, of whatever religious belief or race, can fight for one common cause. We learned this because we saw Catholics and Protestants, Jews and Gentiles, fighting side by side in the trenches, never stopping to question one another as to race or creed. Somehow, we cannot get away from believing that this same spirit of tolerance will prevail among these people in their everyday relationships, because they learned during the war not only that this was possible, but that it actually was the sensible thing for all.

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The law of compensation both rewards and punishes! The punishment, as well as the reward, takes on every possible guise. Sometimes it seems self-inflicted, while at other times it seems to come from causes beyond the individual control, but come it will, in one guise or another. There is one means of approach which no human being can cut off, and that is through the conscience.

Punishment is often visited upon a man through his conscience (or imagination) when it exists nowhere else. As evidence of this— evidence that might be multiplied by a million similar cases—read the following account of a bank clerk who stole some money and fled, with the ‘‘law’’—the unrelenting law of compensation—on his trail for eighteen years, and watch the workings of this law as you read.

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There never was any man-made law placed on the statute books, and there never will be any such law placed there, which cannot be broken and the consequences avoided now and then, by shrewd and cunning men, but no man has yet been smart enough to thwart the workings of the law of compensation. That law is man-proof. The more man tinkers with it, the less chance he stands of escaping its consequences, unless he earnestly studies it with the object of conforming to its principles!

By turning back the pages of history, we learn that most of the great men of the past—those whose names have lived beyond the grave—were men who suffered much, who sacrificed, who met with failure and defeat, yet went smiling on to the end of this physical existence without bitterness in their hearts. The pages of history are full of such men, from Socrates and the man from Galilee on down to the present, but a case that particularly claims our attention just now, on account of the fact that the principal still lives, is that of Knut Hamsun, whose story is briefly told in the following press dispatch:

(Please see the continuation of this excerpt below: “A Tramp wins the Nobel Prize for Literature” below)

Source: Napoleon Hill’s Golden Rules.

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A Tramp Wins the Nobel Prize for Literature

 

The Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded, nearly fifty thousand dollars, to Knut Hamsun, whom probably not one American in one hundred ever heard of.’’

But Hamsun was for years a streetcar conductor in Chicago and a longshoreman in New York City. He has been a dishwasher in a restaurant, a coal passer on a tramp steamer, a house painter, a writer of scientific essays, a porter in a hotel, a deckhand, and many others things.

Like O. Henry, he was for years a forlorn, friendless, and homeless person, wandering over the face of the earth, often without money or food, a sleeper on park benches.

Now he receives the most glittering single prize offered anywhere in the world to literary genius, awarded by a committee of experts. Hamsun was discharged as a trolley car conductor because ‘‘he never could remember the names of streets.’’ The Chicago superintendent said he seemed too stupid even for skipper for a Halsted streetcar. So he went to New York, worked on the docks several months, and then shipped as a seaman on a fishing smack for Newfoundland. Wherever he went, he was always scribbling on paper.

Finally, he published his Pan, a lyrical novel of epic power. The volume has been translated into seventeen languages, of which English was one of the last.

His two most notable novels are Shallow Soil and Hunger. The last has neither plot, beginning, nor end. Nor is the name or age of the hero given. It describes what happens to a man who cannot get work in a great city, either as a writer or a laborer, and is forced to go hungry after pawning most of his clothes. The novel leaves the man exactly where it found him—friendless, homeless, nameless. No one who reads it will ever forget it.

This was Knut Hamsun’s own experience.

Now, at sixty, he has worldwide fame, a fifty-thousand-dollar prize, and a handsome country estate in Norway, and his gates will henceforth be besieged by publishers.

As Mark Twain says, the only difference between truth and fiction is that fiction has to stick to what seems possible. Truth doesn’t.

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When my former associate lost sight of the high ideals, the humanitarian aims and purposes which actuated me in editing Hill’s Golden Rule Magazine, and was no longer able to hold principle above the dollar, was no longer actuated by the spirit to serve instead of the desire to get, his change of attitude forced me to disconnect myself from him. In doing so, it practically meant that two years of labor was lost; it means that new contacts must be formed, that new subscribers must be secured, that my work must all be done over again. Yet, only three short months have elapsed since I decided to take the step which told all the world that I stood for principle above the dollar, for humanity above the individual, and I have been more than compensated for taking this stand by the sweeping storm of protest that swept down on my former publisher from those who sensed what had happened, and the corresponding pledge of support of this magazine which has come to me from those same people.

In the light of every experience which I have cataloged, and in the light of every observation which I have made with relation to others, I am bound to say frankly and boldly that where principle stands in the way of pecuniary gain, there is only one thing to do and that is to support principle; where the cause of the individual is in conflict with the cause of humanity as a whole, support the cause of humanity! All who would thus boldly assert themselves must sacrifice, temporarily, but just as sure as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, their just reward will come to them further along the line, when the law of compensation begins to get down to business.

One of the very best ways to teach a child that a hot coffee pot will burn is to explain, in minute detail, that hot surfaces always burn, then turn your back and let the child do a little experimenting with its fingers. One lesson will be about right. Some of us “children grown tall” learn in the same way.

Source: Napoleon Hill’s Golden Rules.

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