Think And Grow Rich
Think and Grow Rich is a motivational book. Think and Grow Rich was written by Napoleon Hill and inspired by a suggestion by Andrew Carnegie.
It was published in 1937 at the end of the Great Depression. It was the biggest seller of Napoleon Hill's books, selling a claimed 20 million copies over the next 50 years.
Think And Grow Rich At Wikipedia
The text of Think and Grow Rich is founded on Hill's earlier work, The Law of Success, the result of more than twenty years of research based on Hill's close association with a large number of individuals who achieved great wealth during their lifetimes.
At Andrew Carnegie's bidding, Hill studied the characteristics of these achievers and developed fifteen "laws" of success intended to be applied by anybody to achieve success. Think and Grow Rich! condenses these laws further and provides the reader with 13 principles in the form of a philosophy of personal achievement.
Reflected in these principles is the importance of cultivating a burning desire, faith, autosuggestion, and persistence in the attainment of one's goals. Hill also discusses the importance of overcoming many of the common fears that can adversely affect one's thinking and potential.
In his introduction, Hill refers to the "Carnegie Secret", a conception which he reports is the foundation of all success and appears to be the premise of the book. Hill promises to indirectly describe this "secret" in every chapter, but never states it plainly, believing the use of the secret is only available to those who possess a "readiness" for it, a disposition Hill describes as essential to the concept itself.
Variant Editions Of Think And Grow Rich
The original edition of the book bore the full title, Think and Grow Rich; Teaching, for the First Time, the famous Andrew Carnegie Formula for Money-Making, Based upon the Thirteen Proven Steps to Riches, and it was published by The Ralston Society, (Meriden Connecticut), 1937.
In 1960, Hill himself published an abridged version of the book, which for years was the only edition readily available. In 2004, Ross Cornwell published Think and Grow Rich!: The Original Version, Restored and Revised, which restored the book to its original content, with slight revisions, and added the first comprehensive endnotes, index, and appendix the book had ever contained. This version went into a second printing in 2007.
Influence Of Think And Grow Rich
Think and Grow Rich is often cited as an influence on Werner Erhard and Erhard Seminars Training. Since its original publication, it has shown up on bestseller lists of business books as recently as 2007 in Business Week magazine.