Chapter 0: Introduction

The author of Think and get rich, Napoleon Hill, studied and

interviewed the 500 richest men of his time: Carnegie,
Rockefeller, Ford,… To try and determine if there were any
commonalities between these men who knew how to get
wealthy.

Is there a reproducible method to learn how to become rich?

The answer is yes! And this method, the fruit of 25 years of

research, has been divided into 13 steps. Napoleon Hill tells us
that personal enrichment is possible provided we know one and
only one secret. This secret will never be precisely named in the
book, but will nonetheless be evoked more than a hundred
times because this secret is more effective when it is simply left
in sight, where those who are willing and looking for it, will be
able to use it… But it is clear that through these 13 steps, you
think and become rich.

Andrew Carnegie taught this secret to him when Napoleon Hill

was still a young man. The latter then spent the next 20 years of
his life revealing this secret to more than 100,000 men to
check its effectiveness.

The author gives us a number of examples of people who have

succeeded after acquiring this secret. For him, all the people
who acquired this secret and used it were carried away by
success! Then the author says that this secret has nothing to do
with in-depth studies or being particularly well educated. He
cites the example of Henry Ford who never attended high
school.

Finally, Napoleon Hill concludes by saying that if the reader

of Think and get rich is ready for this secret then it will pop out
of the text before his very eyes and he will recognise this secret
in each of the chapters of the book.

In the end, Napoleon Hill declares: “Every success, every

fortune begins with an idea.”

Chapter 1: The man who “in his mind”

wanted to become Thomas A Edison’s
associate.
Napoleon Hill tells the story of Edwin C. Barnes, a man who
eagerly wanted to meet and work with Thomas A Edison.

However, Barnes did not know Thomas Edison and could not
afford the trip to Edison’s office. These obstacles would have
stopped most people, but not Barnes, who wanted so badly to
work with Edison. So he took a freight train and managed to get
an interview.

Barnes was a very ordinary boy but despite this, Edison felt that
his desire to work with him was very strong, so he hired him as
a simple employee.
Barnes seizes this opportunity and goes on to sell
this “Ediphone” for over thirty years! He pocketed millions of
dollars. It was this era that gave birth to the slogan “invented by
Edison and installed by Barnes”.

He remains fixated on his idea: to become Edison’s associate, a

straightforward man who managed to make a fortune. What did
he have that others didn’t? He knew what he wanted and was
willing to persevere until he reached his goal.

The link between all men who experience failure is

abandonment. Barnes could have given up on many occasions,
yet he persevered and succeeded.

Success comes after the failure

Napoleon Hill gives another example, that of a man who headed

west in search of gold. He quickly found his sought-after metal
and began to make a fortune. He exploited all the gold in his
mine right up to the day it dried up. And what did he do then?
He gave up.

An investor bought the apparently empty mine. He brought in

an engineer who declared that there was still gold in the mine
but one had to dig in a different area, close by. And this investor,
who had consulted an engineer, made a fortune.
The moral of this story? Success rarely happens right away and
you often have to endure several failures before enjoying
success.

Failure only obscures success that is actually much closer

than we think.

Henry Ford’s secret to becoming rich

One day, Henry Ford, the man who revolutionised the

automobile, decided to produce his V8 engine. All his engineers
told him that his idea was “impossible”. Ford ordered them to
try it anyway. Six months passed, then six more… And the
engineers couldn’t build the much-touted engine. Determined,
Ford told them to keep looking.

Then one day, magically, engineers discover the secret to

making the V8 engine.

It is Henry Ford’s legendary determination that is the source of

his successes. Where more than one person would have
abandoned ship, he remains focused on his purpose.

Chapter 2: First step towards wealth: the

desire
Desire is the starting point for any personal success.

When Barnes got off the freight train to meet Thomas Edison,
he could have been mistaken for a vagabond, but his thoughts
were those of a king. Throughout the journey, he visualised
himself working as Edison’s partner.

This desire was not a hope or a wish, it was a burning passion!

For everyone, Barnes was just another cog in Edison’s business.

But in his own mind, he was Edison’s partner from the first day
he started at the company.

Instructions to turn your desires into cash

Here are 6 precise and practical instructions that will allow you
to transform your desires in cash:

1. Fix in your mind the exact amount of money you seek.

2. Determine exactly what you intend to give in exchange for

the money you want.

3. Fix the date you want to be in possession of this sum.

4. Define a specific plan that will help you achieve your

desire, and immediately start putting it into action.

5. Write clearly on a paper the amount you want to acquire,

the time you have set and the specific plan you have
developed to achieve all of this.

6. Read your written goals a loud, twice a day, in the evening

before bedtime and in the morning as you wake up.
During this reading, you must see, feel and believe in the
possession of this money. Your mind must be overtaken with
the desire for money.

Have a well-defined goal and an ardent desire. To be

successful, you have to have a well-defined goal, to
know exactly what you want and to have an ardent
desire to possess it. All those who wish to become rich
must bear in mind that the greatest skyscrapers, the
most ingenious inventions, all started out as dreams.

Henry Ford’s secret to becoming rich

One day, Henry Ford, the man who revolutionised the

automobile, decided to produce his V8 engine. All his engineers
told him that his idea was “impossible”. Ford ordered them to
try anyway. Six months passed, then six more… And the
engineers couldn’t build that famous engine. Ford, determined,
told them to keep looking.

Then one day, magically, engineers discover the secret of

making the V8 engine.

It is the legendary determination of Henry Ford that is the

source of all his successes. Where more than one person would
have abandoned, it remains fixed on its purpose.
When you decide to acquire your share of wealth, do not sway,
even if one mocks your dream. Lock into the spirit of the great
pioneers whose dreams allowed the American civilisation to
attain all that it holds most valuable, as well as the opportunity
to develop and launch our talents.

A few years later, the author buys a phonograph that his son
then listens to for hours, his teeth clamped onto the device’s
casing. The bone being a good conductor of sound, his son could
hear the music, even softly.

More than anything in the world Napoleon Hill wanted his son
to be able to hear, so he sought solutions in the technological
advances of the time.

When the young boy arrived at university, he tried a high-tech

electrical device that allowed him to hear for the first time!

Discovering a new world, the author’s son decided to devote his

life to selling these hearing aids.

Napoleon Hill concludes that nothing is impossible for someone

who has faith. He could have accepted that his son would never
hear, but he fought his whole life to find a solution and
eventually his son was found his hearing.

Chapter 3 The second step towards wealth:

Faith
Faith is a state of mind obtained by affirming or repeating
instructions to the subconscious, which plays a major role in
creating desire, using the principle of auto-suggestion.

Let’s use yourself as an example, why are you reading this

chronicle? Because you want to know how to turn your desire
into its physical equivalent, that is money.

The only method to effectively develop faith is to repeat the

following clear orders to one’s subconscious: I want 1 million
euros, I want 1 million euros, I want … ».

All thoughts, positive or negative, influence the subconscious

when stimulated by faith

Most people feel condemned to remaining poor and therefore

keep repeating to themselves: “I could never become rich.” In
the end, they convince themselves it’s true. They are the creators
of their own misfortune.

Faith is a state of mind that is created by auto-suggestion

You can develop your faith by strongly suggesting to your

subconscious that you have the faith. Your subconscious will
then influence your actions.

If you understand this, then you will appreciate why it is

essential to drive away ones negative thoughts (“I will fail”) and
to encourage positive thoughts (“I will succeed”).
This faith is both the first step towards wealth and the only
antidote to failure. This explains why the rich are always more
successful and the poor always fail more.

The repetition of thought

How do you plant the seed of an idea in your mind?

It is very simple: any idea, plan or goal can be inserted into the
mind by the repetition of the thought. This is why the author
recommends writing down your main purpose on paper and
precisely defining it, learning it by heart and repeating it aloud
every day, until this thought is firmly installed in your mind.

Once this idea is fixed in your mind, nothing can make you
ignore it.

Remember, wealth begins with a thought.

Chapter 4: The third step towards wealth:

auto-suggestion, the tool to influence the
subconscious mind
Auto-suggestion is a form of suggestion that is addressed to
oneself.

The subconscious is like a garden. Left unattended, weeds will

grow. Conversely, by nourishing your garden with positive
thoughts, all negative thoughts will disappear and you’ll succeed
in everything you undertake.
To act on your subconscious, think emotionally

In the chapter on desire, we learnt to repeat our goals a loud,

twice a day. Unfortunately just reading aloud is not enough. You
have to read and feel your goals at the same time. Your
subconscious can only act if it is motivated by emotional
thoughts.

On top of this, you have to believe in what you say.

With your eyes closed, you can “visualise” the money you desire
and imagine that, at the same time you are helping others and
this it is not just about acquisition or personal advantage, but
about exchanging. There can be no enrichment without a service
rendered in return.

The fact that you are reading this article proves that you really
want to know the secrets of success. To obtain satisfactory
results, you must follow all the instructions described in Think
and get rich and deeply believe that your desire will materialise.

Chapter 5: The fourth step towards wealth:

specialisation, personal experiences or
observations
There are two kinds of culture: general and specialised. General
culture is of little use in the quest for wealth. Lengthy studying
does not help you get rich, besides most professors are poor.
The main flaw in any educational system is the inability of
schools to teach students about organisation and use of
knowledge.

Henry Ford, in a defamation suit, had to answer a number of

general culture questions to prove that he was not educated.
What Henry Ford replied was unsettling: “I work with people
who are all able to answer your questions, all I have to do is
press a button and they will come and answer them. So why
should I try to answer all these questions when I work with
men who are there to help me if I fail? »

The lawyers didn’t know what to say. Everyone recognised that

Ford’s words were those of an educated man.

Before you can transform your desire into its monetary

equivalent, you first need to specialise in a particular field.
Knowledge of the service, goods or profession that you intend to
offer, in exchange for the fortune, is indispensable.

To be trained in something, most of the time pays off! Someone

who stops studying, simply because they think that they have
finished their studies, is desperately condemned to mediocrity.
To achieve success, you have to continue to acquire knowledge.

Chapter 6: The fifth step towards wealth:

imagination, the mind’s workshop
Imagination is the workshop in which all human plans are
developed. The desire is shaped, sculpted and nourished by the
imaginative faculties of the mind.

It is with imagination that man conquered the sky, determined

the distance from the sun and travelled faster than sound…

Napoleon Hill defines 2 types of imagination:

 Synthetic Imagination: It does not create anything;it

reheats old concepts, old ideas, and old plans. This form of
imagination is based on experience, instruction and
observation

 Creative Imagination: With this, the mind knows no limits.

It creates new ideas. It works thanks to the ardent desire of
our subconscious.

The author then tells us the story of a book salesman who

noticed that the best selling books were the ones that had the
prettiest covers. So he changed the cover of the books he
couldn’t sell and made a fortune!

As simple as it sounds, it’s a good idea! An idea springs from

imagination.

For ideas, there is no standard price. The creator of ideas

defines his own price and if he knows how to do it right, he will
earn a lot of money.
The story of almost all the big fortunes begins on the day the
creator of ideas and a salesman of ideas meet and work
together.

Chapter 7: The sixth step towards wealth: the

elaboration of plans, the crystallisation of
desire in action
Everything one creates or acquires begins with desire. In the
imagination workshop, where plans are created and organised,
desire begins its journey, from the abstract to the tangible.

The development of defined and practical plans to achieve this

transformation is a very important phase.

Persevere until you succeed

If the first plan you make fails, replace it with a new plan. If that
doesn’t succeed either, replace it again with a new one and so on
until you find the one that works. This is exactly where the
majority of people get discouraged and fail because of their lack
of perseverance.

Temporary defeats leads to success

Thomas Edison failed 10,000 times before inventing the electric

light bulb. It could be said that he failed 10,000 times, but
Napoleon Hill points out that he failed temporarily 10,000
times before his efforts were rewarded.
This is where the difference lies. Each failure should be
considered as a temporary failure and a success-in-waiting. It is
important not to give up at the first hurdle.

One is only ever beaten when one gives up mentally. No one can
expect great financial success without experiencing temporary
failures.

The author uses a phrase that I like very much: “A quitter never
wins and a winner never lets go”

The key elements of leadership

There is no shame in being a follower, but you do not earn

anything by staying as one. Most great leaders started as
followers. They become great leaders because they are
intelligent followers. With few exceptions, he who is unable to
intelligently follow his leader will never be a good leader. Men
who are close to their superiors are often the ones who pick up
promotions first. An intelligent follower has several advantages,
among them the opportunity to acquire the knowledge of its
leader.

Chapter 8: The seventh step towards wealth:

the decision
Napoleon Hill studied several thousand cases of chess and
concluded that one of the main causes of failure is indecision.
Most people who make a fortune have the ability to make
decisions quickly and stick to them.
Make your own decisions and keep to them

Most people who fail in their attempt to earn a lot of money are
usually very impressionable.

Although it’s not their intention, close friends and parents often
curb our ambitions by issuing reservations or expressing a
negative opinion. Thousands of men and women carry
inferiority complexes throughout their lives because a person
destroyed their confidence with opinions and mockery.

You have a spirit and a mind, so use them to make your own
decisions.

The value of a decision

The value of a decision depends on the courage it takes to make

it. Men who are prepared to risk death take great decisions that
drive civilisation forward.

The greatest decision in the entire history of the United States

was taken in Philadelphia on July 4th, 1776 when 56 men signed
a document, knowing that they may be buying freedom for all
Americans, or hanging 56 of them by the neck until dead.

This document became The Declaration of Independence, which

gave birth to the United States of America.
Chapter 9: Step eight towards wealth:
perseverance, the effort required to have
faith
Perseverance is what allows you to transform your desire for
money into fully-fledged currency. Alongside perseverance,
there is willpower. Combining these two attributes can get any
man or woman to the summit of success.

Most people give up at the first resistance and that is why they
never get rich.

A lukewarm desire brings meagre results

Desire is the origin of any enterprise. Never forget it. A small

desire delivers only meagre results, just as a small fire gives off
little heat. If you lack perseverance, fight this weakness by
stimulating your desire until it becomes obsessive.

Chapter 10: The ninth step towards wealth:

the power of the “Master Mind” alliance
To make a fortune, power is indispensable. Napoleon Hill
defines it as ” organised and intelligently-directed knowledge.”

The benefits of having a “mastermind” group

He who surrounds himself with intelligent men has a definite

advantage over the loner. In addition, Napoleon Hill evokes
mind synergies: 1 + 1 = 3. Two minds working together are more
effective than two separate minds.
The key to power and success is to know how to surround
oneself with brilliant men. This is no table in the case of Andrew
Carnegie whose “Masterminds” group had fifty people whose
mastery of the steel industry was at their fingertips. The success
of great men is often down to the people who surrounded them.

Chapter 11: The tenth step towards wealth:

The mystery of sexual transmutation
Sexual emotion is not only related to a physical state, but also to
an emotion. This emotion exists for three reasons:

 Reproduction

 Health and well being

 The transformation of mediocrity into genius

Sexual desire is the most powerful of desires. It stimulates,

develops imagination, courage, will, perseverance and an ever-
growing creative power.

Sexual desire is extremely powerful. To satisfy it, some risk their

lives and their reputation.

This desire must therefore be mastered, catalyzed to serve a

“greater” cause than reproduction, for example the pursuit of
wealth.
It has been proven that the most successful people are those
who have a very strong sexual desire but are able to control it.

On the contrary, people who cannot catalyze this energy will

always fail in life. It is for this reason that success does not
materialise at 20 years old (with rare exceptions), but later
when man eventually manages to master his sexual energy.

Chapter 12: The eleventh step towards

wealth: the subconscious mind
The subconscious records and classifies all thought that reaches
the conscious through 1 of the 5 senses. The subconscious works
day and night.

Entrust your subconscious with your plan, desire or goal

By an unknown phenomenon, the subconscious feeds on our

thoughts and transforms them into their physical equivalent. In
addition, it always uses the most practical ways to do it.

You do not have control of your subconscious, but you can

suggest an action plan. Once you have accepted the existence of
your subconscious, you will understand why it is important to
specify your desires and write them down. However, to act on
the subconscious, you have to be patient and harness the power
of habit: Repeat your goals and your plan aloud,every day.

If you do not try to control it, your subconscious will feed on

thoughts that cross your mind, whether these thoughts are
positive or not. Learn to master your thoughts and master your
subconscious.

The seven positive emotions

You can choose to feed your subconscious with positive

emotions:

 Desire, faith, love, sexuality, enthusiasm, tenderness, hope

The seven negative emotions

Or you can choose to deal with your negative emotions:

 Fear, jealousy, hatred, vengeance, greed, superstition,

anger

Chapter 13: The twelfth step towards wealth:

The human brain, a transmitter and receiver
for thought
The human brain is similar to a radio station: it can emit waves,
but also receive them. When the brain works intensely, it is able
to give an emotional charge to the waves received so that they
are integrated into our subconscious.

The subconscious is the “transmitter station” of the brain and

the “creative imagination” is the “receiver unit” of the brain.

We are led by intangible forces

Napoleon Hill explains that there are intangible forces, things
we cannot perceive with our five senses. Among these intangible
forces is thought.

In the author’s era and even today, scientists understand brain

functionality very poorly.

Setting up a positive environment can link the collective brains

of your working group to each other. The author describes the
ideal conditions for stimulating our “sixth sense” in the next
chapter.

Chapter 14: The thirteenth step towards

wealth: The sixth sense, the gate to the
temple of wisdom
The sixth sense cannot be understood nor assimilated if one has
not understood and mastered the other 12 principles of Think
and get rich,right from the start.

Napoleon Hill defines the sixth sense as the part of the

subconscious that has been named the “creative imagination”.
By developing this sixth sense, you will possess a “guardian
angel” that will open the door to the “temple of wisdom“.

Any unexpected event that provokes emotions and causes the

heart to beat faster than usual will awaken your sixth sense. The
author takes the example of the car driver who turns the wheel
at the last moment to avoid an accident: The sixth sense helped
him.

By learning to develop your sixth sense, you will be able to

transform your desire into its material equivalent.

Chapter 15: How to defeat the six ghosts of

fear
To succeed, you must drive away any form of fear from your
mind.

Fear can be divided into 6 different forms: Fear of poverty,

criticism, illness, loss of love, old age and death.

However you must not forget that fear is a state of mind and
that a state of mind can be controlled and directed.
Unfortunately for the fearful, states of mind are transformed
into their physical equivalent, whether the state of mind in
question is voluntary or not.

The fear of poverty

The fear of poverty is the main fear that prevents us from

enriching ourselves: “What if I fail?” Would I have to live on the
streets? »

The fear of poverty is merely a state of mind. And yet it can be

enough to destroy any chance of success. Many people do not
invest their money for fear of losing it.
Fear of being criticised

Napoleon Hill asks himself the following question: How did

man come to fear criticism?

Fear of disease

Man fears illness because he associates it with aging and death.

However, a reputable physician has estimated that 75% of his
patients had an imaginary sickness. It has also been proven that
fear of the disease leads to…The disease itself!

This underlines the author’s thesis that thoughts turn into their
physical equivalent.

Fear of losing one’s loved one

Jealousy and other forms of neurosis come from the fear of

losing a loved one. It is a very powerful form of fear, one that
probably causes the most havoc in the body and mind.

Prehistoric man tended towards polygamy and it was the

strongest man who got to choose his wife. He would take her
with brute force.

Man can have several children from several women at the same
time while a woman can only have one child at a time and
therefore only one partner. Moreover, women are more likely to
be afraid of losing their love, as a result of the polygamous
nature of man.
The fear of aging

A fear of aging is associated with two types of fear: that of

weakening and dying. This form of fear leads to the fear of
poverty, that of losing independence as well as physical and
economic freedom.

The fear of death

This fear is the cruelest of all. This anguish has spawned a

number of religious fanaticism. Religion only gives meaning to
life by suggesting that there is a life after death. Religion tries to
explain the following questions: “Where do we come from?”
And where are we going?”

Destructive thoughts

The waves emitted by fear are transmitted and pass from one
mind to the other. This is why negative people tend to project
their pessimism and that positive people pass on their
enthusiasm!

Whoever emits negative thoughts will destroy their creative

imagination. Moreover, these thoughts lead to a negative
personality and repel others, or even make them hostile!
Fortunately, you can control your thinking, feed it with the ideas
you have chosen. You will master your destiny as long as you
control your thoughts. Many people use excuses.

I first heard about this book on a list of “10 books that will change your life”. It turns out this
book is a regular on this kind of list. It is one of the very first books ever written in the fields
of self-help and accumulation of wealth, which has helped it rise to fame. With over a 100
million copies sold worldwide and being so repetitively mentioned by wealth gurus, I decided
to buy it out of curiosity.

After spending quite some time studying it - and even though I do think it is overhyped - I
can see why it can be life changing for many people. It has indeed made me learn quite a few
things.

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill is structured in 13 chapters (also called “steps to
riches”) that talk about things like the power of thought, desire, faith, autosuggestion,
knowledge, planning, organization, and persistence, all of which must be understood in order
to obtain what is desired. He developed his moneymaking secrets after interviewing 500 of
the most affluent men and women of his time.

Hill says that in applying his principles one will reach a tremendous amount of wealth. Even
though throughout the book he talks about money as the end goal, these principles can be
applied to reach any kind goal: professional, monetary, spiritual, etc.

THINGS I HAVE LEARNED

1) In chapter 7 Napoleon Hill says the following: “capitalistic society guarantees every
person the opportunity to provide service and to collect riches in proportion to the value of
the service”. Out of this magnificent quote I got two things.

First, “every person has the opportunity”, for him there are no barriers at all between you and
your goals, things like your race, your gender, sexual orientation or social class are not valid
excuses nor determinants of your success. If you think that any of these things are the reason
why you don’t succeed it is because you have a losing mindset and not a winning mindset,
Napoleon says.

“If you want something you will find a way, if not you will find an excuse”. Unknown.

The second thing that caught my eye out of that quote was “collect riches in proportion to
the value of the service” and that is because the market doesn't lie. We all get money in return
for the value we provide. Surgeons make more money than accountants because in our
society saving a life is more valuable than doing some taxes. The moral of this is that if you
want to make more money you will have to find a way to provide more value (something
that rarely happens when you are working for somebody else).
2) Every successful person I can think of knew what he or she wanted. There are plenty
examples of very wealthy (and fulfilled) people that had a goal in mind and stuck to it until
they succeeded. Having a clear idea of what you want will help you persevere until you
achieve it. If you really, really want something you will do whatever it takes to make it
happen.

These successful people, apart from having a clear goal in mind, were very specific. If you
want to become a millionaire (but you really, really want it), you should write the exact plan
you are going to follow to achieve that said goal in a place where you are going to see it
every day. Once that precise plan is written you have to say it out loud every day until it
becomes a part of you, that’s when you will start taking conscious and subconscious actions
toward that goal.

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't, you're right” Henry Ford.

3) The first step to any sort of achievement must be conquering your own mind. You must
master your fears, doubts, negativity and procrastination if you intend to accumulate any sort
of riches or success.

4) Surround yourself with a group of people (“Master Mind” or team of experts) that share
your vision and will push you toward your goal. This Master Mind group needs to be in
harmony with you and must have a different skill set that compliments yours.
It is important to keep in mind that nobody will work for very long without personal benefit,
so it is important to create a win-win relationship with every member of the group.

5) Master your thoughts; if you feed your subconscious mind negative thoughts and poor
thoughts, negativity and poverty will become a part of your reality. Whatever you want to
achieve in life you must learn how to think toward that goal.

You can feed your subconscious mind positively with meditation. Write down your goals,
meditate and visualize yourself succeeding. If you have a goal and you believe you are going
to achieve it, repeat it every day and one day you will succeed. Faith will grow in you as you
make your goal a reality in your mind. That way you will work consciously and
subconsciously toward that goal.

6) If you want to affect your subconscious you need to mix your thoughts with emotions.
You can’t say, “I am going to become a surgeon” and hope that you will. You need to
actually focus and mix emotions as you say it, then you will convince yourself that you will
make it.

7) Be specific when applying for a job. It is very important to climb the corporate ladder from
the beginning. Instead of applying for any job, make sure you apply for a specific role being
as precise as possible. You should say what position you are going to take, what solutions
you will bring to certain problems, and why it is beneficial for the company to hire you and
not somebody else. By doing so you will save a few years of your professional career trying
to get a promotion and will start up high from the very beginning.

One of the keys of this is that you will place yourself ahead of the competition where you will
see opportunities and, more importantly, where opportunities can find you! Imagine that a
CEO from another company wants to hire someone from yours. Will they look for someone
in the lower level of the company or for someone that has already had a position of
responsibility?

8) Most successful people have the habit of reaching decisions promptly and of changing
those decisions slowly. That way once they have made a decision they will not be influenced
by people outside their Master Mind group. The majority of people who fail to accumulate
money are generally easily influenced by the opinions of others.

“Criticism is one form of service of which everyone has too much. Everyone has a stock of it
that is handed out, gratis, whether called for or not” Napoleon Hill

9) We will all face failure but only those willing to stand up and fight again will be able to
achieve success. After studying so many successful people, Napoleon Hill concluded that the
recipe for success was a combination of “definiteness of purpose, persistenceand a
tremendous amount of effort”.