The Book in Three Sentences
- Napoleon Hill researched more than forty millionaires to find out what made them the men that they were.
- In Think and Grow Rich, he imparts that knowledge to you.
- Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.
The Five Big Ideas
- The starting point of all achievement is desire.
- You are the master of your destiny.
- When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
- Your greatest success will often come just one step beyond the point at which defeat has overtaken you.
- Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass.
Think and Grow Rich Summary
Bob Proctor has formed the habit of reading a few lines from Think and Grow Rich every day and has arrived at the conclusion that whatever challenge he may face, his solution will be found in the pages of Think and Grow Rich.
Another habit Proctor has formed that he would urge the reader to follow is to read the chapter on “Persistence” every day for 30 days at least twice a year.
“Don’t wait. The time will never be right.”
“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.”
Hill learned from years of experience with men that when a man really desires a thing so deeply that he is willing to stake his entire future on a single turn of the wheel in order to get it, he is sure to win.
“What a different story people would have to tell if only they would adopt a definite purpose and stand by that purpose until it had time to become an all-consuming obsession.”
“Opportunity has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, often disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat which why so many fail to recognise opportunity.”
“An intangible impulse of thought can be ‘transmuted’ into its physical counterpart.”
Know what you want and have the determination to stand by that desire until you realise it.
“One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.”
Before success comes into your life, you are sure to be met with much temporary defeat and, perhaps, some failure.
More than 500 of the most successful individuals this country has ever known told Hill that their greatest success came just one step beyond the point at which defeat had overtaken them.
“When riches begin to come, they come so quickly, in such great abundance, that one wonders where they have been hiding all those years.”
One of the main weaknesses of the human race is the average person’s familiarity with the word “impossible.” Another weakness found in many people is the habit of measuring everything and everyone by their own impressions and beliefs.
“A burning desire to be and to do is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off. Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition.”
“Those who win in any undertaking must be willing to burn their ships and cut all sources of retreat. Only by so doing can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win, which is essential to success.”
“Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognise failure, will bring riches.” You can never have riches in great quantities unless you can work yourself into a white heat of de
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