This is taken from Napolean Hill’s greatest book, Think and Grow Rich

(Capitialist) pioneer, experiment and blaze trails in new fields of endeavor. They support colleges, hospitals and schools, build good roads, publish newspapers, pay most of the cost of government, and take care of the multitudinous detail essential to human progress. Stated briefly, the capitalists are the brains of civilization because they supply the entire fabric of which all education, enlightenment and human progress consist.

Money without brains is always dangerous. Properly used, it is the most important essential of civilization. A simple breakfast for a city family consisting of grapefruit juice, cereal, eggs, bread and butter and tea with sugar could not be provided at a reasonable price if organized capital had not supplied the machinery, the ships, the railways, and the huge armies of trained people to operate them.

Ships and railways do not spring up from the earth and function automatically. They come in response to the call of civilization, through the labor and ingenuity and organizing ability of people who have imagination, faith, enthusiasm, decision, and persistance! These people are known as capitalists. They are motivated by the desire to build, construct, achieve, provide useful service, earn profits and accumulate riches. And, because they provide service without which there would be no civilization, they put themselves in the way of great riches.

Just to keep the record simple and understandable, I will add that these capitalists are the selfsame people of whom most of us have hear soapbox orators speak. They are the same people to whom radicals, racketeers, dishonest politicians and union leaders refer as “the predatory interests.”

“Big business,”"capital predatory interest” or whatever name you choose to give the system which as given us freedom represents a group of people who understand, respect and adapt themselves to this powerful law of economics. Their financial continuation depends upon their respecting the law.

If one has superior talent, training, or experience, one may accumulate riches in large amounts. Those not so fortunate may accumulate smaller amounts. Anyone may earn a living in return for a very nominal amount of labor.

So-there you are!

You can depend upon this much- CAPITALISTIC SOCIETY GUARANTEES EVERY PERSON THE OPPORTUNITY TO PROVIDE USEFUL SERVICE AND TO COLLECT RICHES IN PROPORTION TO THE VALUE OF THE SERVICE.

-Napoleon Hill