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| Think and Grow Rich!: The Original Version, Restored and Revised | 
 enlarge | Author: Napoleon Hill
Publisher: Aventine Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (128 reviews)
Sales Rank: 3434
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 412
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9 x 5.8 x 1.1
ISBN: 1593302002
Dewey Decimal Number: 650.1
EAN: 9781593302009
ASIN: 1593302002
Publication Date: October 1, 2004
Release Date: October 30, 2004
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 116 Reviews of This Book and 106 of Them Are 5 Stars March 2, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I first read this book about twenty-five years ago. I was involved in a family business with my brother that afforded me a very good living but not much personal satisfaction. There were ups and downs in this business and there were many times I was determined to quit, however I never did. Finally we rebuilt the business and it became very successful. I received a lifetime's education in just two years. I personally marketed the business and sold it off to our largest competitor at a very hefty price. Then for about four years I drifted. I practiced law and didn't enjoy it for a minute. Then somehow I reconnected with the principles in this book. I helped rescue a firm that was on the brink after 9-11. The last 5.5 years have been truly remarkable. All of the success that eluded me at times in the past, magically found its way to me.
I came to realize that life and especially life in the USA is just one big wish fulfillment machine. I don't mean that you just wish and it comes true. Rather you focus and focus singularly on the object of your desires. You visualize yourself in the place where you want to be. You ignore naysayers and doubters. You focus on your desires and not your fears. You do it joyously because you know that this journey is the true expression of your true self. You know that there is a force that is always with you and always guiding you. You do this day in and day out. And then the magic occurs. Your goal comes to you. The less negative thoughts and doubts you have the better. This system is truly an act of faith and requires the greatest act of courage. But it works! Just look at the great men Hill talks about in the book. Carnegie, Rockefeller, Edison, Bell, etc. The list goes on and on. Then look around at the great business people now, Gates, Buffet, they've all done the same thing.
Basically this book states that you must take complete responsibility for where you are in your life at any given time. If you aren't where you want to be, then its because your thoughts have taken you where you are. To borrow a concept from some more current spiritual self help experts, if you are not creating your life intentionally, then you are doing so by default.
In short, the only thing holding you back is you. Once you accept this fact and realize that you have become a victim or servant of your thoughts rather than having them serve you, then your life will change in an astonishingly short period of time. Temporary obstacles are not a permanent barrier to success. I have gotten to the point in my own life where when I start a new business and we hit a road block, I laugh out loud with joy. That's because I know that this "obstacle" is a wonderful thing. It means that I am almost there. I need to change my thinking just a little. I just have to look adversity in the eye and not blink and then what I desire will be mine.
When I was selling the family business I realized that there are very few things in life that we can control. However the one thing that absolutely everyone can control is their thoughts. Once we learn this secret, we become unstoppable creators and the world is ours.
Reading this book is your first step in evolving from one who accepts what life has dished out to you, to one who consciously chooses from what life is offering you. Its really that simple and that powerful!
The single way of life in a capitalist society February 9, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
After reading "Think and Grow Rich" I have suddenly realized that this simple slogan is the single way of life in a capitalist society. In this book, as the only way of getting rich, the author advocates goal-directed way of life, purposefulness, constant self-perfection, courage, the skill to think and to act, and the other similar traits of character.
Many people came to a conclusion that the wealth, in some extent, depends on a level of education, motivation, self-esteem, and so on. The problem is that not all the people in equal extend incline to the education, to their self-improvement. This is because of the differences of their needs, habits, abilities, capabilities, and so on. Leo Tolstoy in his novel "Resurrection" arose a question of how to improve the level of education within a society: from inside of each individual or from outside? Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Should first the level of education of each and every individual be risen which yields a revolution (dialectic transition of quantity into quality) or the revolution should make the environment to foster the education of every individual?
The traits advocated by Napoleon Hill correspond to the first Leo Tolstoy's way of improving society. If each and every individual will improve, the society will automatically improve. The second way of Leo Tolstoy (create the environment which will foster the education of every individual) is contrary to Napoleon Hill's ideas: "if something is got for free or without big effort, it won't be appreciated, won't be handled with care or you won't trust it". Free education and medical care won't be respected properly by people, regardless how good this education and medical care are. That's why the socialist society will develop slower than capitalist. Marxists knew this and have built the concept of World revolution (to overthrow of capitalism in all countries), and a further idea by Trotsky that it was impossible to build socialism in a single country. Trotsky wrote that the socialist economy is not as efficient as capitalist and without the World revolution the USSR won't be able to overcome its economic underperformance.
Napoleon Hill praises the freedom and opportunities of the capitalist society of the U.S. in particular, which gives, according to Napoleon Hill, boundless opportunities for an individual who is able to think and grow rich.
I also recommend "The Road to Serfdom" by F. A. Hayek in addition to this book. Although "Think and Grow Rich" is a classical self-help book for a general reader while "The Road to Serfdom" is mostly academic, I think that both of them should be read.
Think & Grow Rich February 5, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Great Book - We are reading it in a group & discussing the chapters - It has the ability to change your life.
The Simple Formula: Money on the brain equals HIP, HIP...HURRAH! January 12, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Come on! Is it really that simple? If we constantly think about money, we will eventually be rich? This book is responsible for making more millionaires than any other book in history. There must be something here. Listening to the many success stories that credit this book really sparked our interest, so we checked it out. This is what we found:
First: We must say up front, this book is NOT for everyone. You have to be ready to receive this information in order to understand it. This is something we learned in our many attempts to read it.
Second: Published originally in 1937 during the Great Depression, Napoleon Hill gave his contribution to society by revealing the secret of the wealthy he discovered after several hundred interviews. AHHH! Did we say SECRET? Well, of course we did. Believe it or not, the very popular book written by Rhonda Byrne, "The Secret," has the same principles written in this book. With all of our technical and scientific advances, we as a society are just discovering universal laws Napoleon Hill knew many decades ago. The only thing...Napoleon Hill's version of this "secret" seems to have been written in code. He wanted the reader to discover this secret on their own...when they were ready for it. This is why people not understanding the universal laws will find it hard to read..at least this was our first experience. After reading books like "Ask and it is Given," by Esther and Jerry Hicks, and The Law of Attraction by Michael Losier who explained these laws in basic terms, we were able to see the brilliance of Napoleon Hill. Once you can get a solid understanding of these principles, this book appears to be the blueprint for all that followed. (Question: Did Rhonda Byrne ever reveal the name of the "100-year-old" book from which she learned this secret? ...HMMMM?)
Last, but certainly far from least, this book is not just about MONEY! Examples like Napoleon Hill son's success and the Edwin C. Barnes' story demonstrate that this book is about success of any kind.
Napoleon Hill goes through a 13-step formula of success given to him by his mentor and a multi-millionaire (billionaire equivalent in our time), Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie asked Napoleon Hill to make this information available to everyone. Think and Grow Rich! fulfills Andrew Carnegie's request! We no longer have to wonder if these so-called universal principles really work...this book was written long ago and many millionaires have proven its validity. It is time to get this information out to the world. There REALLY is something here!
 Don't Believe the Hype January 7, 2008
8 out of 18 found this review helpful
Hill basically blathers about the law of attraction and how to focus your thoughts and energies towards riches. Think rich, meditate rich, envision rich, and the law of attraction will eventually make you rich. The same goes for any desire you may have.
Even though this is a "classic" I would not recommend this book. I got about half-way through and couldn't read any longer. I found it to be horribly written. The thought process was unorganized and the wording flowery and intangible. Often the stories and illustrations were irrelevant to the lessons being taught. Overall very unpractical. I did find certain parts of the book to be slightly motivating, thus two stars instead of one.
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