No one can get something for nothing. Everything worth having has a definite price, and that price must be paid. The rules of personal achievement are as definite as the rules of mathematics. If every there was a true science, it is the science of personal achievement described in the seventeen principles of this philosophy.
You are a student of this philosophy. Therefore you are deprived of alibis for failure, including the grandfather of them all, "I never had an opportunity." You have an opportunity, and it lies in the privilege of availing yourself of the combined knowledge of more than five hundred men of great achievement who have made this philosophy available to you.
What are you going to do with your opportunity?
Success does not require a great amount of knowledge about anything, but it does call for the persistent use of whatever knowledge you may have.
How are you using your time?
How much of it are you wasting, and how are you wasting it?
What are you going to do to stop this waste?
These are the questions which should claim your earnest attention throughout this lesson. Successful men must know themselves, not as they think they are, but as their habits have made them. Therefore you are requested to take inventory of yourself so that you may discover where and how you are using your time.
Napoleon Hill
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