Let's get one thing straight. This book is 100% fact. There are no suppositions or "possibles" in it. It was written for a single purpose, and addressed to a certain individual. The fact that you bought the book makes you that individual.

However, if you are timid, or negative, this book will not help you in the least. It's all right for you to be lazy — my kind of lazy — which was the laziness of a man who was willing to work at a thing dedicatedly so that he could enjoy laziness later and longer and in delicious, sweet idleness. But if you are too lazy to work at making your million, read no further. Go back and enjoy your laziness. I have no quarrel with it. This just isn't your cup of tea.

Necessarily this book will seem autobiographical. In a sense it is. That means it has got to be about me, and I hope you'll bear with that. I won't inflict any more of my personal history upon you than is necessary to give you a full background for the better understanding of my successes and failures—so that you will be able to spot the temptations that led me to some whopping mistakes—and so that you will learn the signals that say "This Way Up" to guide you to your million.

Perhaps the personal history will help you in another important phase of our undertaking—showing you how to make your million. If you see how poor I was, how little I had by special training, education, experience, or even advice, and above all, how little money I had to start with, you will be more likely to feel, "Heck! If Bob could do it with what he had, so can I." If we accomplish that, we’ve come a long way toward success. When you believe you can do it, you have a big advantage. If you don't quite believe it, you must at least keep an open mind, and be willing to be convinced by your own experience. Ill do the rest, using your hands, mind and heart.

How do I know I can show you how to make your million? Simple. I've done it in many cases.