Think and Grow Rich Highlights

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Think and Grow Rich

By modernlifeninja

My latest highlights post. From Napolean Hill’s Think and Grow Rich.
 

Page 9
I had learned, from years of experience with men, that when a man really DESIRES a thing so deeply that he is willing to stake his entire future on a single turn of the wheel in order to get it, he is sure to win.
 

Page 10
Psychologists have correctly said that “when one is truly ready for a thing, it puts in its appearance.”
 

Page 10
What a different story men would have to tell if only they would adopt a DEFINITE PURPOSE, and stand by that purpose until it had time to become an all- consuming obsession!
 

Page 11
That is one of the tricks of opportunity. It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
 

Page 13
One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.
 

Page 13
The “Junk” man took millions of dollars in ore from the mine, because he knew enough to seek expert counsel before giving up.
 

Page 17
Life is strange, and often imponderable! Both the successes and the failures have their roots in simple experiences.
 

Page 18
WHEN RICHES BEGIN TO COME THEY COME SO QUICKLY, IN SUCH GREAT ABUNDANCE, THAT ONE WONDERS WHERE THEY HAVE BEEN HIDING DURING ALL THOSE LEAN YEARS.
 

Page 27
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat. Only by so doing can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a BURNING DESIRE TO WIN, essential to success.
 

Page 33
The turning point in the lives of those who succeed, usually comes at the moment of some crisis, through which they are introduced to their “other selves.”
 

Page 80
One of the strange things about human beings is that they value only that which has a price.
 

Page 85
And that is another reason why it pays to start one or two steps above the bottom. By so doing one forms the HABIT of looking around, of observing how others get ahead, of seeing OPPORTUNITY, and of embracing it without hesitation.
 

Page 106
No individual has sufficient experience, education, native ability, and knowledge to insure the accumulation of a great fortune, without the cooperation of other people. Every plan you adopt, in your endeavor to accumulate wealth, should be the joint creation of yourself and every other member of your “Master Mind” group.
 

Page 106
You may originate your own plans, either in whole or in part, but SEE THAT THOSE PLANS ARE CHECKED, AND APPROVED BY THE MEMBERS OF YOUR “MASTER MIND” ALLIANCE.
 

Page 108
A QUITTER NEVER WINS, AND A WINNER NEVER QUITS
 

Page 111
In the future, the relationship of employer and employee will be more like a partnership than it has been in the past.
 

Page 128
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.
 

Page 129
Sex energy is the most powerful of all the stimuli which move people into ACTION. Because it is the most powerful of the emotions, it must be controlled, through transmutation, and converted into other channels.
 

Page 130
The person who takes no chances, generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.
 

Page 160
Generally, the youth just out of school seeks any job that can be found. He takes the first place he finds, because he has fallen into the habit of INDECISION. Ninety- eight out of every hundred people working for wages today, are in the positions they hold, because they lacked the DEFINITENESS OF DECISION to PLAN A DEFINITE POSITION, and the knowledge of how to choose an employer.
 

Page 171
Riches do not respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant PERSISTENCE.
 

Page 199
A teacher, who has trained and directed the efforts of more than 30,000 sales people, made the astounding discovery that highly sexed men are the most efficient salesmen. The explanation is, that the factor of personality known as “personal magnetism” is nothing more nor less than sex energy. Highly sexed people always have a plentiful supply of magnetism. Through cultivation and understanding, this vital force may be drawn upon and used to great advantage in the relationships between people.
 

Page xii
THE “depression” was a blessing in disguise. It reduced the whole world to a new starting point that gives every one a new opportunity.
 

Page lix
“It was a great surprise to me when I discovered that most of the ugliness I saw in others, was but a reflection of my own nature.”
 

Page lx
In parting, I would remind you that “Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is TIME. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by TIME. You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate INDECISION!”

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