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What do I love about: Think and grow rich?
Think and Grow Rich by My Napoleon Hill is a bestseller and one for all ages, a modern day classic filled with ideas which have the power to change your life and set out upon the path of learning and self-development. This book conveys the experience of more than 500 men of great wealth, who began at scratch, with nothing to give in return for riches except THOUGHTS, IDEAS and ORGANIZED PLANS.
Here you have the entire philosophy of moneymaking, just as it was organized from the actual achievements of the most successful men known to the American people during the past fifty years. The book describes WHAT TO DO also HOW TO DO IT! It presents complete instruction on HOW TO SELL YOUR PERSONAL SERVICES, while providing you with the perfect system of self- analysis that will readily disclose what has been standing between you and “the big money” in the past.
It describes the famous Andrew Carnegie formula of personal achievement by which he accumulated hundreds of millions of dollars for himself and made no fewer than a score of millionaires of men to whom he taught his secret.
Perhaps you do not need all that is to be found in this book- no more of the 500 men from whose experiences it was written did- but you may need ONE IDEA, PLAN OR SUGGESTION to start you towards your goal.
Somewhere in the book, you will find this needed stimulus. The book was inspired by Andrew Carnegie after he had made his millions and retired. However, it was written by the man to whom Carnegie disclosed the astounding secret of his riches- this same man to whom the 500 wealthy men revealed the source of their riches.
What do I not love about: Think and grow rich?
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Who should read: Think and grow rich?
Are you looking to improve money, power, fame, contentment, personality and a peace of mind? Then this book is for you.
Who should not read: Think and grow rich?
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Notes from Think and grow rich
The thirteen steps towards riches
- Desire (The starting point of all achievement)
- Tolerance and open mind are practical necessities of the dreamer of today
- Success requires no apologies, and failure permits no alibis
- Every failure brings with it the seed of equivalent success
- The whole course of things goes to teach us faith, we need only obey
- Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds
- Desire backed by faith knows such words as impossible
- Faith is the eternal elixir which gives life, power, and action to an impulse of thought
- Faith (Visualization of, and belief in attainment of desire)
- I am the master of my faith, and the captain of my soul
- Faith is the eternal elixir which gives life, power and action to the impulse of thought
- The emotion of love in the human heart and brain, creates a favorable field of magnetic attraction which causes an influx of the higher and finer vibrations which are afloat in the ether
- Autosuggestion (The medium for influencing the subconscious mind)
- Specialized Knowledge (Personal experience or observations)
- If you contemplate taking additional schooling, first determine the purpose for which you want the knowledge you are seeking. Then learn where this particular sort of knowledge can be obtained from reliable sources.
- It pays to know how to purchase knowledge
- Education consist not so much of knowledge, but of knowledge effectively and persistently applied
- Imagination (The workshop of the mind)
- Organized Planning (The crystallization of desire into action)
- Decision (The mastery of procrastination)
- Tell the world what you intend to do, but first show it
- Opinions are the cheapest commodity on earth
- Persistence (The sustained effort necessary to induce faith)
- The quality of “persistence” is to the character of man what “carbon” is to steel
- Power of the master mind (The driving force)
- Men take on the nature and the habit and the POWER OF THOUGHT of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony
- Poverty needs no plan. It needs no one to aid it because it is bold and ruthless. Riches are shy and timid. They have to be attracted
- The Mystery of Sex transmutation
- Genuis: a man who has discovered how to increase the vibrations of thought to the point where he can freely communicate with sources of knowledge not available through the ordinary rate of vibration of thought
- The hunter of today brings home no skins of wild animal, but he indicates his desire for her favor by supplying fine clothes, motor cars, and wealth
- No man is happy or complete without the modifying influence of the right woman
- Sex desires is the most powerful of all desires. Its transmutation will lift one to the state of genius
- The subconscious mind (The connecting link)
- The Brain (A broadcasting and receiving station for thought)
- The sixth sense (The door to the temple of wisdom)
- It is believed to be the point at which the mind of man contacts universal mind
- Emperor of Fate, King of Chances, Many of destiny
Other notes from think and grow rich
- Six Fears: Poverty, criticism, ill health, old age, death, loss of loved one
- Death is mere transition
- You have ABSOLUTE CONTROL over but one thing and that is your THOUGHT.
- You either control your mind or it controls you
- The first and best victory is to conquer self
- Life is a check-board and the player opposite you is time.
- Most of the ugliness I saw in others, was but a reflection of my own nature