Think and Grow Rich was written by Napoleon Hill in 1937 and promoted as a personal development and self-improvement book. He claimed to be inspired by a suggestion from business magnate and later-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.While the book's title and much of the writing concerns increasing income, the author insists that his philosophy can help people succeed in any line of work, to do and be anything they can imagine. First published during the Great Depression, the book sold more than 20 million copies by Hill's death in 1970. By 2015, more than 100 million copies had been sold worldwide.It remains the biggest seller of Napoleon Hill's books. BusinessWeek magazine's Best-Seller List ranked it the sixth best-selling paperback business book 70 years after it was published. Think and Grow Rich is listed in John C. Maxwell's A Lifetime "Must Read" Books List.
“Do not wait; the time will never be "just right."”
Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich
Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
Source: Think and Grow Rich (1938), p. 127
“There are no limitations to the mind except those that we acknowledge.”
Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich
Source: Think and Grow Rich
Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich
Variant: Do not wait: the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.
Source: Think and Grow Rich (1938), p. 127
Context: Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
“Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.”
Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich
Source: Think and Grow Rich
“Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.”
Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich
Source: Think and Grow Rich (1938), p. 54
“success requires no apologies, failure permits no alibis.” If”
Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich
Think and Grow Rich
Variant: Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis.
“Truly, thoughts are things, and their scope of operation is the world, itself.”
Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich
Source: Think and Grow Rich (1938), p. 87
“All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea!”
Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich
Source: Think and Grow Rich (1938), p.18
Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich
Source: Think and Grow Rich (1938), p. 54
Context: We are what we are, because of the vibrations of thought which we pick up and register, through the stimuli of our daily environment.
Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to ORDER.
“There is no substitute for honesty... there is NO HOPE for the person who is dishonest...”
Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich
Think and Grow Rich (1938), p.88
“Quick riches are more dangerous than poverty.”
Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich
Source: Think and Grow Rich (1938)
“Power in the hands of one who did not acquire it gradually, is often fatal to success.”
Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich
Source: Think and Grow Rich (1938)
Context: Sons and daughters of wealthy men, and others who inherit money which they did not earn...
