Think & Grow Rich
by Napoleon Hill
Quick Quote
Both poverty and Riches are the offspring of thought.
“When defeat overtakes a person, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is what majority of people do.……..Before Success comes in anyone’s life, that person is sure to meet with much temporary defeat, and, perhaps, some failure.”
pg 27 Ch-2
“When the opportunity comes, it appeared in a different form and from different direction……….That is one of the trick of opportunity.”
pg 25 Ch-2
“Success comes to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who become failure conscious.”
pg 31 Ch-2
Quick Quote
“I am the master of m fate, I am the captain of my soul.”
p 33 c2
6 WAYS TO TURN DESIRES INTO GOLD
The method by which your desire for the riches can be transmuted into its financial equivalent consists of six different, practical steps;
1- Fix in your mind the exact amount of money you desire.
2-Determine exactly what you intend to give in return for the money you desire.
3-Establish a definite date when you intend to possess the money you desire.
4-Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and began at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.
5-Not write it out. Write a clear, concise statement of the amount of money you intend to acquire, name the time limit for the money, and describe clearly the plan through which you intend to accumulate it.
6-Read your statement aloud, twice daily. Read it once just before retiring at night, and read it once after arising in the morning. As you read, see and feel and believe yourself already in possession of the money.
Pg 42 Ch-3
“If the thing you wish to do is right, and you believe in it, go ahead and do it. Never mind what “they” say if you meet with temporary defeat. “They” do not know that every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.”
Pg 45 Ch-3
Quick Quote
Dreams, followed by failures, followed by lessons learned, then SUCCESS.
“Remember, no more effect is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty.”
Pg 51 Ch-3
“Every adversity brings with it the seed of an equivalent advantage.”
Pg 53 Ch-3
“There are two kinds of knowledge. One is general the other is specialized………The faculties of any university possess particularly every form of general knowledge known to civilization. Most of the professors have little money. They specialize in the teaching knowledge, but they do not specialize in organization or thew use of knowledge…….The missing link in all systems of education is that education institutions fail to teach their students how to organize and use the knowledge after they have acquired it.”
pg 97 Ch-6
“The word educate is derived from the Latin word educo, meaning to educate, to draw out, or to develop from within.”
Pg 98 Ch-6
Quick Quote
“The story of practically every great fortune starts with the day when a creator of ideas and a seller of ideas got together and works”
“Ideas are like that. First you give life and action and guidance to ideas, then they take on a power of their own and sweep aside all opposition. Ideas are intangible force, but they have more power then the physical brains that give birth to them. They have the power to live on, after the brain that creates them has returned to dust.”
Pg 142 Ch-7
“It should encourage you to know that practically all the great fortunes began either from selling personal services or from the sale of idea.”
Pg 148 Ch-8
“Person Who cannot control themselves can never control others.”
Pg 149 Ch-8
The Last Great Prophet
“Mohammed was a prophet, but he never performed a miracle. He was not a mystic, he had no formal schooling; he did not begin his mission until he was forty. When he announced that he was the Messenger of God, bringing world of the true religion, he was ridiculed and labeled a lunatic. Children tripped him and women threw filth upon him. He was banished from his native city, Mecca, and his followers were stripped of their worldly goods and sent into the desert after him. When he had been preaching ten years he had nothing to show for it but banishment, poverty and ridicule. Yet before another ten year had passed, he was dictator of all Arabia, ruler of Mecca, and the head of a new world religion which was to sweep to the Danube and the Pyrenees before exhausting the impetus he gave. That impetus was threefold: the power of words, the efficancy of prayer, and man’s kinship with God.
His career never made sense. Mohammed was born to impoverished members of a leading family of Mecca. Because Mecca, the crossroads of the world, home of the magic stone called Caaba, great city of trade and the center of trade routes, was unsanitary, its children were sent to be raised in the desert by Bedouins. Mohammad was thus nurtured, drawn strength and health from the milk of nomad, vicarious mothers. He tended of her caravans. He traveled to all parts of the Eastern World, talking with many men of diverse beliefs and observed the decline of Christianity into warring sects. When he was twenty-eight, Khadija, the widow, looked upon him with favor, and married him. Her father would have objected to such a marriage, so she got him drunk and held him up while he gave the paternal blessing. For the next twelve years Mohammad lived as a rich and respected and a very shrewd trader. Then he took to wandering in the desert, and one day he returned with the first verse of the Koran and told Khadija that the archangel Gabriel had appeared to him and said that he was to be the Messenger of God.
The Koran, the revealed word of God, was the closest thing to a miracle in Mohammed’s life. He had not been a poet; he had no gift of words. Yet the verses of the Koran, as he received them and recited them to the faithful, were better than any verses which the professional poets of the tribes could produce. This, to the Arabs, was a miracle. To them the gift of words was the greatest gift, the poet was all-powerful. In addition the Koran said that all men were equal before God, that the world should be a democratic state- Islam. It was this political heresy, plus Mohammed’s desire to destroy all the 360 idols in the courtyard of the Caaba, which brought about his banishment. The idols brought the desert tribes to Mecca, and that meant trade. So the businessmen of Mecca, the capitalists, of which he had been one, set upon Mohammed. Then he retreated to the desert and demanded sovereignty over world.
The rise of Islam began. Out of the desert came a flame which would not be extinguished- a democratic army fighting as a unit and prepared to die without wincing. Mohammed had invited the Jews and Christians to join him; for he was not building a new religion. He was calling all who believe in one God to join in a single faith. If the Jews and Christians has accepted his invitation Islam would have conquered the world. They didn’t. They would not even accept Mohammed’s innovation of human warfare. When the armies of the prophet entered Jerusalem not a single person was killed because of his faith. When the crusaders entered the city, centuries later, not a Moslem man, women, or child was spared. But the Christians did accept one Moslem idea– the place of learning, the University.”
Pg 221 Ch-10
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