Think and Grow Rich

Think and Grow Rich clearly spells out the Thirteen Principles of Success of Napoleon Hill using real examples from his inside knowledge of the rich and powerful.

Think and Grow Rich reveals the principles behind each success, and shows how you too can take the techniques and make them your own. When you know this — and it tells you step-by-step what to do and how to do it — you will have the blueprint to your personal, professional, and financial success.

Napoleon Hill’s classic Think and Grow Rich has sold more than 60 million copies worldwide. It revolutionized the whole concept of self-help writing and to this day remains the standard against which all other motivational literature is measured. This classic of classics on the subject of personal achievement has helped literally millions of people to lead richer, fuller lives. It is said that Napoleon Hill has made more millionaires and inspired more successes than any other person in history.

i. Foreword

What do you want most? Is It Money, Fame, Power, Contentment, Personality, Peace of Mind, Happiness?

ii. Publisher's Preface

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.

iii. Author's Preface

IN EVERY chapter of this book, mention has been made of the money-making secret which has made fortunes for more than five hundred exceedingly wealthy men whom I have carefully analyzed over a long period of years.

01. Introduction

TRULY, "thoughts are things," and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a BURNING DESIRE for their translation into riches, or other material objects.

02. Step One - Desire: The starting point of all achievement

The First Step toward Riches

03. Step Two - Faith: Visualization of and belief in attainment of desire

FAITH is the head chemist of the mind. When FAITH is blended with the vibration of thought, the subconscious mind instantly picks up the vibration, translates it into its spiritual equivalent, and transmits it to Infinite Intelligence, as in the case of p

04. Step Three - Auto-suggestion: The medium for influencing the subconscious mind

AUTO-SUGGESTION is a term which applies to all suggestions and all self administered stimuli which reach one's mind through the five senses.

05. Step Four - Specialized knowledge: Personal experiences or observations

Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when, and if, it is organized into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite end.

06. Step Five - Imagination: the workshop of the mind

The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man. The impulse, the DESIRE, is given shape, form, and ACTION through the aid of the imaginative faculty of the mind.

07. Step Six - Organized planning: the crystallization of desire into action

You have learned that everything man creates or acquires, begins in the form of DESIRE, that desire is taken on the first lap of its journey, from the abstract to the concrete, into the workshop of the IMAGINATION, where PLANS for its transition are creat

08. Step Seven - Decision: The mastery of procrastination

ACCURATE analysis of over 25,000 men and women who had experienced failure, disclosed the fact that LACK OF DECISION was near the head of the list of the 30 major causes of FAILURE. This is no mere statement of a theory— it is a fact.

09. Step Eight: Persistence: the sustained effort necessary to induce faith

PERSISTENCE is an essential factor in the procedure of transmuting DESIRE into its monetary equivalent. The basis of persistence is the POWER OF WILL. Will-power and desire, when properly combined, make an irresistible pair.

10. Step Nine - Power of the master mind: the driving force

POWER is essential for success in the accumulation of money. PLANS are inert and useless, without sufficient POWER to translate them into ACTION. This chapter will describe the method by which an individual may attain and apply POWER.

11. Step Ten - The mystery of sex transmutation

The meaning of the word transmute is, in simple language, the changing, or transferring of one element, or form of energy, into another. The emotion of sex brings into being a state of mind.

12. Step Eleven - The subconscious mind: the connecting link

THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND consists of a field of consciousness, in which every impulse of thought that reaches the objective mind through any of the five senses, is classified and recorded, and from which thoughts may be recalled or withdrawn as letters may b