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:.:............. 3 I i J &GROW !i: I Featuring the instant-aid edition of Napoleon Hill's classic Think and Grow Rich plus your own personal course for lifelong success, the ThinkandGrowRichActionManual. NAPOLEON HILL Henry Ford - John D. Rockefeller - Theodore Roosevelt - William Jennings Bryan - Clarence Darrow - Alexander Graham Bell - William 1 Howard Taft - and hundreds of others founded their success on Andrew Carnegie's philosophy of success. Vj Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 http://archive.org/details/thinkgrowrichactOOnapo_0 ;;;:;;;;V;;u!iiiii>n--':HiMiW»<;iiti;i;I)t'ii;;;uUHUUtnNnHW;i;iti);i:);K::::;;:::;;;;:;;;;;:;;;- &GROW RICH [ACTION NAPOLEON HILL © A PLUME BOOK PLUME PublishedbythePenguinGroup PenguinBooksUSAInc., 375 HudsonStreet, NewYork,NewYork 10014, U.S.A. PenguinBooksLtd, 27 WrightsLane, LondonW8 5TZ, England PenguinBooksAustraliaLtd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia PenguinBooksCanadaLtd, 10AlcornAvenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada,M4V 3B2 PenguinBooks (N.Z.)Ltd, 182-190WairauRoad, Auckland 10,NewZealand PenguinBooksLtd, RegisteredOffices: Harmondsworth,Middlesex,England PublishedbyPlume, animprintofDutton Signet, adivision ofPenguinBooksUSAInc. ThispaperbackeditionofThe Thinkand GrowRichActionPackfirstpublishedin 1988 byE. P. Dutton. FirstPlumePrinting, December, 1990 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Copyright© 1972by HawthornBooks, Inc. ThinkandGrow Rich, New andRevisedEdition, copyright© 1937, 1960, 166, 1967,bytheNapoleonHillFoundation ThinkandGrowRichActionManual copyright© 1968 byHawthornBooks,Inc. Allrightsreserved. © REGISTEREDTRADEMARK—MARCA REGISTRADA LibraryofCongressCatalogCardNumber: 75-38620 ISBN: 0-452-26660-2 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica Withoutlimitingtherightsundercopyrightreservedabove, nopart ofthispublicationmaybereproduced, storedinorintroducedinto aretrieval system, ortransmitted, inanyform, orbyanymeans (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, orotherwise), withoutthe priorwrittenpermissionofboththecopyrightowner andthe abovepublisherofthisbook. BOOKS ARE AVAILABLE ATQUANTITY DISCOUNTSWHEN USEDTO PROMOTE PRODUCTSORSERVICES. FOR INFORMATION PLEASEWRITE TOPREMIUM MARKETING DIVISION, PENGUIN BOOKS USA INC., 375 HUDSON STREET, NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10014. 6 . 1 Contents A Word from the Publisher 3 Preface 4 Introduction 1 THOUGHTS ARE THINGS 1 Edison Looked into His Face Opportunity . . . Came by the Back Door The Man Who Quit Too . . . Soon Success with One Step Beyond Defeat . . . . . The Child Who Mastered a Man The "Yes" . . . Behind the "No" With One Sound Idea You . . . Achieve Success ... "I Want It and Til Have It" . . . A Poet Saw the Truth A Young Man Sees His . . . Destiny Step 1 Toward Riches: DESIRE 32 No Way to Retreat He Burned His Boats . . . . . . Six Steps that Turn Desires into Gold Principles . . . Worth $100,000,000 Great Dreams Can Turn . . . into Riches They Put Desire Behind Their . . . Dreams Desire Performs the "Impossible"... . . . We Find a Way Nothing Could Stop Him A . . . . . . Breakthrough in Hearing The "Deaf Boy Helps . . . Others Desire Works Magicfora Singer . . . Step 2 Toward Riches: FAITH 50 Faith Waitsfor You to FindIt ... No Such Thing as Bad Luck Faith Gives Power to Thought . . . . . . Thoughts that Dominate Your Mind Five Steps . . . to Self-confidence You Can Think Yourselfinto . . . i••n• .. iv The Think and Grow Rich Action Pack Disaster The GreatExperience ofLove You . . . . . . Give Before You Get Riches Begin Inside the . . . Man Step 3 Toward Riches: AUTOSUGGESTION 72 The Money Power ofEmotion See Yourself . . . Making Money Inspiration Will Guide You . . . . . . Now Your Subconscious Mind Goes to Work . . . Why You Are Master ofYourDestiny Step4TowardRiches: SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE 82 "Ignorant" Enough toMake a Fortune Knowl- . . . edge Is Easy to Acquire Where to Find Knowl- . . . edge Study and Self-discipline Never Too . . . . . . Late to Learn Bookkeeping on Wheels ... A . . . "Blueprint" thatBuilta Job He Saved Ten Years . . . of "Beginning" The World Loves a Winner . . . . . Don*t Linger at the Bottom . . . You Can Market Yourself Step 5 Toward Riches: IMAGINATION 100 The Synthetic and the Creative Stimulate Your . . . Imagination Nature Tells Us the Secret ofFor- . . . tune Ideas Become Fortunes One Ingredient . . . . . . Was Missing One Week to Get a Million Dollars . . . Definite Purpose Plus Definite Plans . . . Step 6 Toward Riches: ORGANIZED PLANNING 1 14 Defeat Makes You Stronger You Can Sell . . . Services andIdeas Where Leadership Begins . . . . . Eleven Secrets ofLeadership Why Leaders Fail . . . Many Fieldsfor Leadership Five Ways to . . . . . . Get a Good Job How to Prepare a "Brief" or . . . Resume . . . Find a Job You Like to Do . . . The Public Is Your Partner Rate Yourself Three . . . Ways Go-getter or Go-giver? Thirty-one . . . . . . Ways to Fail How Do You Market Yourself? . . . Did You Advance Last Year? Twenty-eight . . . . . . Very Personal Questions Your Vast Opportuni- . . . Contents v ties toAccumulate Riches Give Credit to Capital . . . . . . Civilizat—ion Is Built on Capital . . . Abundance Everywhere Opportunity Everywhere Step 7 Toward Riches: DECISION 56 — 1 Opinion A Cheap Commodity History Made . . . by Decisions An Incident in Boston Minds . . . . . . Begin to Work Together An Instant Decision . . . Changes History Thomas Jefferson Reads Aloud . . . The Powerofa Made-up Mind . . . Step 8 Toward Riches: PERSISTENCE 70 1 Weak Desires Bring Weak Results The Magic . . . of "Money Consciousness'7 You Have a Hidden . . . Guide Defeat: A Temporary Condition Any- . . . . . . one Can Learn Persistence An Eight-Point . . . "Persistence Inventory" Anyone Can Criticize . . . They Made Their Own "Breaks" All They . . . . . . Wanted Was Each Other Four Steps to Persis . . . tence Can You Get Help from Infinite Intelli- . . . gence? Step 9 Toward Riches: POWER OF THE MASTER MIND 190 Andrew Carnegie's SecretofSuccess You Can . . . Use More Brains Than Your Own Poverty Needs . . . No Plan Step 10 Toward Riches: THE MYSTERY OF SEX TRANSMUTATION 200 — The Driving Power of Sex . . . Mind—Stimuli Good and Bad Your Sixth Sense Creative . . . Imagination An Exalted Plane of Thought . . . . . . The Voice Within "Sitting for Ideas"... The . . . Source ofGenius IsAvailable to You Sex Energy- . . . Is Transmuted Much Sex Energy Is Wasted . . . . . . Nature Gives Great Stimulants Sex and Sales- . . . manship Too Many False Beliefs About Sex . . . . . . The Lesson ofthe Fruitful Years Only You Can . . . . . vi The Think and Grow Rich Action Pack Lead Yourselfto Genius The Mighty Experience . . ofLove Trivialities Can Wreck a Marriage . . . . . . How Women Get TheirPower Step 11 TowardRiches: THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND 226 The First Creation Must Be Thought How to . . . Harness Your Positive Emotions Prayer and the . . . Subconscious Mind Step 12 Toward Riches: THE BRAIN 236 WeAre Ruled by Intangible Forces Brain-to- . . . Brain Communication Minds "Tuned" to Each . . . Other Step 13 Toward Riches: THE SIXTH SENSE 246 The Great First Cause You Can Employ "In- . . . visible Counselors" A Timefor Self-suggestion . . . The Imaginary "Cabinet" How to Inspire the . . . . . Sixth Sense You Will Own a GreatNewPower . . . THE SIX GHOSTS OF FEAR 256 FearIs Only a State ofMind Roads that Lead . . . in Opposite Directions Analyze Your Fears . . . . . . Six Symptoms that Show Fear ofPoverty "Just . . . Money" Do You Fear Criticism? Seven Symp- . . . . . . toms that Show Fear ofCriticism Do You Fear . . . III Health? Seven Symptoms that Show Fear of . . . IIIHealth ...Do You FearLoss ofLove? Three . . . Symptoms that Show Fear ofLoss ofLove Do . . . You Fear OldAge? Three Symptoms that Show . . . Fear ofOldAge Do You FearDeath? Three . . . . . . Symptoms that Show Fear ofDeath Worry Is . . . Fear Thought that Destroys Are You Too . . . . . . Susceptible? Protect Yourself! ThinkBefore . . . . . . YouAnswer The Difference Mind ControlMakes . . . Do You Use These Alibis? The Habit Fatal . . . . . . to Success THINK AND GROW RICH ACTION MANUAL 295 A Word from the Publisher: OneoftheWorld 's Most Powerful Books Is in Your Hands. It gives you a tested plan that makes men rich, it shows you exactly how to use it, and gets you started right now. What is it that makes one man march forward all his life, acco—mplishing, earning, multiplying his wealth and his happiness while another man never gets started? What is it that gives one man great personal power, but leaves another ineffectual? What makes one man above to see his way through any problem, find his path over all the rough spots of life to the fulfillment of his dearest dreams—while another struggles, fails, ends nowhere? Years ago, Napoleon Hill sat down with Andrew Carnegie, then one of the world's richest men, and caught his first glimpse ofthe great Secret. Hill was entrusted by Carnegie to find out how others used the Secret, to study their methods, and to work out a single method that could be given to the world as a Master Plan. think and grow rich reveals the Secret and gives the Plan. Since its publication in 1937, 42 editions have been bought as fast as they could be printed. The present edition is brought up to date with brand new special aids, including a chapter-by-chapter one-page "refresher course." At last here is the one, sure way to overcome all obstacles, achieve any ambition, bring success as though provided from an ever-flowing river. This book is about to shake you with its life-transforming power. Soon you will know why ce—rtain people acquire great stores of money and happiness because you will be one ofthose people. Preface In every chapter of this book mention the money- I making secret that—has made fortunes for hundreds ofexceed- ingly wealthy men men Ihave carefully analyzed overalong period ofyears. The secret was brought to my attention by Andrew Car- negie more than half a century ago. The canny, lovable old Scotsman carelessly tossed it into my mind when I was but a boy. Then he sat back in his chair with a merry twinkle in his eyes and watched carefully to see ifI had brains enough to un- derstand the full significance ofwhat he had said to me. When he saw that I had grasped the idea, he asked if I would be willing to spend twenty years ormore preparing my- self to take it to the world, to men and women who, without the secret, might go through life as failures. I said I would and, with Mr. Carnegie's cooperation, I have kept my promise. 4