Organized Effort
by: Napoleon Hill

Out of organized effort comes power, and out of power intelligently directed comes a higher civilization.

Men who know how to get that which they want always ally themselves with others and proceed toward their objective through co-operative effort.

The lecture bureau of this magazine offers an excellent object lesson in the principle of organized effort.  One hundred men and women have pooled their services under one directing head.  Each of the one hundred has back of him the combined energy and ability of the other ninety-nine.

These one hundred people will reach and influence an aggregate of more than eighteen million people each year, and out of this vast army will be gathered a following of those who have profited by that influence.  This following and its far-reaching influence will increase the power and the ability of each of these one hundred people; thus, through organized, co-operative effort each of the one hundred will have added to himself the combined power of the other ninety-nine.

Single-handed no man can accomplish enough to cause much of a stir; but, through allied effort Rockefeller became the world’s richest man, Henry Ford has astounded the world and put the most learned men to shame by comparison, James J. Hill got up from the telegraph key and became the greatest builder of railroads, and George Washington carved his name at the head of the list of immortal patriots.  

There is nothing within reason impossible to the man who allies himself intelligently with the organized forces of the world, through the co-operative effort of other men.

Source: 
Napoleon Hill’s Magazine, April, 1923, pg. 1.