What is the key to becoming wealthy in the 21st Century? Do the same key principles which were in vogue, 70 or 100 years ago still apply? Is psychology and the personal mindset a major contributor to wealth creation?

In 1937 American born Napoleon Hill (1883-1970), wrote in his landmark book Think and Grow Rich, "Whatever your mind can conceive and believe it can achieve."

Hill is considered to have influenced more people into success than any other person in history and has been perhaps the most influential man in the area of personal success technique development, primarily through this book. He did not just write about some theory of how to think and grow rich - he wrote from his own numerous experiences and the experiences of America's most successful people.

Hill was one of the earliest producers of the modern genre of personal-success literature. His most famous work, Think and Grow Rich, is one of the best-selling books of all time. Hill spent 20 years writing this book and interviewed many of the most successful people in the U.S. in the process. Think and Grow Rich was reprinted twice in the year it was first published while the world was still suffering the effects of the great depression and since then has sold more than 7 million copies.

Hill stated in his writings, people are free to believe what they want to believe, and he examined the power of personal beliefs, and the role they play in personal success. The huge sales of Hill's books prove that the secret of achievement is still highly sought-after as key plank in wealth creation. Using the philosophy of achievement, Hill stated, was the responsibility of every American.

"What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve" is one of Hill's hallmark expressions. How achievement actually occurs, and a formula for it that puts success in reach for the average person, were the promise of Hill's books.

Hill considered freedom, democracy, capitalism, and harmony to be important contributing elements. For without these, Hill demonstrated throughout his writings, personal beliefs are not possible. He contrasted his philosophy with others, and thought achievement was superior and responsible for the success Americans enjoyed for the better part of two centuries. Fear and selfishness had no part to play in his philosophy, and Hill considered them to be the source of failure for unsuccessful people.

The secret of achievement was tantalizingly offered to readers of Think and Grow Rich, and was never named directly as Hill felt discovering it for themselves would provide readers with the most benefit. For according to Hill, 98% of people had no firm beliefs, putting true success firmly out of reach.

Hill's early career as a reporter helped finance his way through law school. He was given an assignment to write a series of success stories of famous men and his big break came when he was asked to interview steel-magnate Andrew Carnegie.

Carnegie commissioned Hill to interview over 500 millionaires to find a success formula that could be used by the average person. These included names familiar to most Australians such as, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Henry Ford, Charles M. Schwab, Theodore Roosevelt, William Wrigley Jr, John Wanamaker, George Eastman, Woodrow Wilson, William H. Taft, John D. Rockefeller, and F. W. Woolworth.

Hill became an advisor to Andrew Carnegie, and with Carnegie's help he formulated a philosophy of success, drawing on the thoughts and experience of a multitude of rags-to-riches tycoons. The secret to success is very simple but you will have to read the book to find out what it is! Napleon Hill's book Think and Grow Rich is not only about making money, it is about a better way to live a rich life.

Napoleon Hill made many interesting observations including these:

•  A goal is a dream with a deadline.

•  Action is the real measure of intelligence.

•  All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

•  All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

•  Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

•  Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

•  Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

•  Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

•  Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

•  Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

•  Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

•  Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

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Think and Grow Rich
What I didn't learn at school but wish I had
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What I didn't learn from Google but wish I had

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