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No matter how poor you may be, if you begin to do things in the Certain Way you will begin to get rich; and you will begin to have capital. The getting of capital is a part of the process of getting rich;

无论多么穷困，只要你掌握了前面所说的特殊的方式，就等于在致富的康庄大道上迈出了坚实的第一步，随之而来的资本积累自然也就不在话下了。

and it is a part of the result which invariably follows the doing of things in the Certain Way. You may be the poorest man on the continent, and be deeply in debt; you may have neither friends, influence, nor resources;

它也是特殊的行为方式所产生的必然结果之一。也许，天下间最悲惨的人非你莫属：身负巨债，无亲无友，没有任何可利用的资源，更谈不上有何影响力，

but if you begin to do things in this way, you must infallibly begin to get rich, for like causes must produce like effects. If you have no capital, you can get capital; if you are in the wrong business, you can get into the right business;

然而，一旦你掌握了致富的秘诀，即我说的那种特殊的方式，你就一定能够成功致富，迅速崛起为众人艳羡的大富翁。

if you are in the wrong location, you can go to the right location; and you can do so by beginning in your present business and in your present location to do things in the Certain Way which causes success.

Chapter Three Is Opportunity Monopolized? NO man is kept poor because opportunity has been taken away from him;

because other people have monopolized the wealth, and have put a fence around it. You may be shut off from engaging in business in certain lines, but there are other channels open to you.

Probably it would be hard for you to get control of any of the great railroad systems; that field is pretty well monopolized. But the electric railway business is still in its infancy, and offers plenty of scope for enterprise;

and it will be but a very few years until traffic and transportation through the air will become a great industry, and in all its branches will give employment to hundreds of thousands, and perhaps to millions of people.

Why not turn your attention to the development of aerial transportation, instead of competing with J. J Hill and others for a chance in the steam railway world?

It is quite true that if you are a workman in the employ of the steel trust you have very little chance of becoming the owner of the plant in which you work;