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"WHAT I WOULD DO IF I HAD A MILLION DOLLARS!

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"WHAT I WOULD DO IF I HAD A MILLION DOLLARS!" The message caught the eye of Philip D. Armour, the wealthy packing-house king, who decided to hear the sermon. In his sermon Dr. Gunsaulus pictured a great school of technology where cub manhood and young women could be taught how to succeed in existence by developing the function to THINK in practical rather than in theoretical terms; where they would be taught to "learn by doing." "If I had a million dollars," said the cub preacher, "I would start such a school." After the sermon was over Mr. Armour walked down the aisle to the pulpit, introduced himself, and said, "Young man, I believe you could do all you said you could, and if you evidence come down to my office tomorrow morning I will give you the million dollars you need." There is always much of resources for those who can create practical plans for using it. That was the onset of the Armour Institute of Technology, one of the very practical schools of the country. The seminary was born in the "imagination" of a offspring fellow who never would have been heard of outside of the flock in which he preached had it not been for the "imagination," plus the capital, of Philip D. Armour. Every great railroad, and every outstanding financial founding and every mammoth business

  • 6 - enterprise, and every great invention, began in the imagination of some one person. F. W. Woolworth created the Five and Ten Cent Store Plan in his "imagination" before it became a reality and made him a multimillionaire.
    Thomas A. Edison created the talking machine and the moving picture machine and the incandescent electric snapshot glomus and many of other useful inventions, in his own "imagination," before they became a reality.