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Summary: Shows the what and the how to do; easy listening.
Review: I love Think & Grow Rich. It is without a doubt the most powerful positive mind book ever written. Think & Grow Rich has no doubt influenced more people to become successful than any other book ever written.Recently, I came across this audio cd program along with Your Right To Be Rich also by Hill. Having always been a fan of Hill and his revoluntarily principles of success, I bought both programs and listened to them on a long cross country trip. I found myself feeling renewed during that long trip. The principles in Think & Grow Rich are as fresh today as they were in the 1930's. Principles don't change. Even if you have read the book, I highly recommend you add the cd's in as well and listen to them over and over. Do this for 30 days and watch the difference.
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Summary: Excellent! but the hardcover version is abridged
Review: Wonderful book, which inspires me and makes me think big and stay motivated. I love the unabridged version from wilshire book company. Unfortunately it comes only in paperback. I recently bought the hardcover, collector's edition. Unfortunately it is abridged, in some chapters several pages in total. The format in this book is among the best i've seen though. Leatherbound, goldedges etc. Anyway, great book!
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Summary: Undoubtably the greatest self development book of all time!
Review: I know that they are many personal development books and tapes and seminars and other programs. But in all my years I have never seen anything that delivers like Think and Grow Rich does. To be honest, it took me awhile to figure out the secret that Hill was taking about. Of course, I found some people who still haven't figured it out. Perhaps they are the people giving this great book 1 stars. Not a big book, Think and Grow Rich is only 230 pages and 15 chapters. What sold me on buying this book (I used to hate these self books and thought they were too Pollyannaish) was when I read that Clement Stone turned $100 into over $36 million by following the principles in this book. At the time I first heard about this book, I was flat broke and deepling debt. That all changed and quickly thanks to following the principles in Think and Grow Rich. To me the 6 step self confidence formula on page 36 coupled with the chapter on autosuggestion did the most for me. I also memorized the poem on page 38 and would say it outloud on my way to sales calls while driving in my car. Drivers next to me on the road found me very entertaining I suppose...but I found this simple exercise very beneficial to me. Think and Grow Rich had a profound effect on my life. I cannot recommend this book or any book by Napolean Hill for that matter highly enough. They are life changing and powerful.
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Summary: This edition not the best
Review: I have owned this book for years, but I recently have discovered another, newer version that is far superior. It is "Think and Grow Rich!: The Original Version, Restored and Revised" published by Aventine Press. For one thing it is a bigger book, both in size and in pages (412). It turns out that the book that this review is about is an abridged version of the original, something I never knew in all the times I have read it over the years. This smaller version, while good, contains nothing like the additional information in the "Restored and Revised" version. There is just a ton of fascinating facts and information in the back of the book. In the older book (the plain "Think and Grow Rich"), the print is difficult to read, there is little space for writing notes. The newer version reads better and by comparison is a far more useful learning instrument. Napoleon Hill's work is probably the most important ever done in the motivational and self-improvement field. Whichever version you read, it will change your life forever.
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Summary: Think and Grow
Review: The title of this classic book speaks for itself. Think and Grow Rich is a tool that can be used to advance oneself through the many trials and tribulations that face a person in the course of life. Hill outlines a 'how-to' guide to creating and maintaining wealth. It is a classic book that has and will continue to last the test of time. There have not been many books that truly are a must read. You don't have to want to be a millionaire for it to benefit you. These principles will help you in every area of life. Only recently have I read a book that like Think and Grow Rich is not only a must read, but also a must own, The Baron Son by Vicky Therese Davis, William R. Patterson and D. Marques Patton.
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Summary: One of the Musts
Review: Napoleon Hill rocks. This book is timeless and so are the principals it shares. There is such power in thought. Read this book. Act on this book. Grow RICH inside and out.
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Summary: Good -- albeit a bit vague... but worth reading for sure.
Review: What can I say? Everybody who has even an ounce of entrepreneurial blood in them has to read this book at least once. The info and references are a bit outdated (it was written a long time ago) but the salient principles outlined in the book are solid. A classic that must be on everyone's bookshelf.
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Summary: Think & Grow Rich -- Book Summary
Review: "Think & Grow Rich" has withstood the test of time and is undoubtedly a perennial classic. After nearly fifty years it remains one of the most highly recommended "how-to" books on becoming rich. The book received the stamp of approval from American industrialist Andrew Carnegie who originally recommended that Napoleon Hill undertake the project in order to share with the world the secret to wealth. However, Hill realized that even if he explicitly divulged the secret the sad truth was that 98 out of 100 people would still never succeed financially because they lacked definite purpose.
There are no two ways about it. In order to become rich a person must possess an inviolable reason for wanting to succeed. It is imperative to develop a "money consciousness." Hill writes, "Anybody can wish for riches, and most people do, but only a few know that a definite plan, plus a burning desire for wealth, are the only dependable means of accumulating wealth" (204). If you are part of the 2% who already possesses a strong sense of purpose, then you will easily pick up the secret of wealth interspersed throughout the book's encrypted pages. However, if you need some help, then look no further than reading the title.
There is a reason why the book is NOT entitled "Work Harder and Longer & Grow Rich." Once you comprehend that you are capable of achieving anything when you put your "mind" to it, you will understand what Hill meant when he wrote, "Man can create nothing which he does not first conceive in thought" (199). This central tenet (i.e. the "secret") serves as the basis for which Hill's thirteen principles are based. These principles include desire, faith, autosuggestion, specialized knowledge, imagination, organized planning, decision, persistence, Master Mind alliances, sex transmutation, the subconscious mind, the brain, and the sixth sense. These principles are nothing more than methods for focusing the mind on those activities that will best contribute to your likelihood for success.
Of course, Hill understood that the message is nothing if not passionately understood and applied. So with this purpose in mind, Hill presents us with a brief poem that helps to put things into perspective, and more importantly to help us develop a money consciousness by appealing to us emotionally:
"I bargained with Life for a penny
And Life would pay no more,
However I begged at evening
When I counted my scanty store.
For Life is just employer,
He gives you what you ask,
But once you have set the wages,
Why, you must bear the task.
I worked for a menial's hire,
Only to learn, dismayed,
That any wage I had asked of Life,
Life would have willingly paid." (42)
The poem is worth reading more than once. I understand it to mean that anything is possible if you name it and are willing to work intelligently toward it despite what you might perceive as barriers to achieving that goal (e.g. economic background, lack of money, unsupportive family, too old, etc.). In other words, YOU choose your life, not your circumstances and not anyone else, but it doesn't come free. If you are sufficiently motivated, then the next step is to follow Hill's "Six Ways to Turn Desires into Gold" on page 36, but you'll have to read the book to find out what they are.
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Summary: The unmentionable chapter...
Review: There's one chapter in this book that's either not mentioned or is glossed over in the modern re-do's. It's a chapter that gave me the fortitude to sometimes work for days without sleep in the emergency room, yet the summary booklet that I received with a modern recorded summary only hinted at the chapter. Even though Mr. Hill claimed this chapter holds the key to the best motivator available, the chapter is the chapter that cannot be named in the modern redo books and tapes that were offspring of Mr. Hill's work.
With over 200 glowing reviews about the book in general I couldn't agree more (this book and The Power of Postitive Thinking kept me on track through medical school and a few businesses). I've pulled it out frequently in good times and bad and plugged into the knowledge and strength of Mr. Hill. I won't waste more space explaining why it needs 5 stars. I would like to specifically testify to the wisdom in the unmentionable chapter...Chapter XI The Power of Sex Transmutation.
Who could get away with publishing a book in 2005 with a chapter subtitle like Mr. Hill used..."the worthlessness of money without women." Though the chapter is politically incorrect, the wisdom of the power of sex energy to motivate and energize when rechanneled to a worthy cause is undeniable.
For more on this subject, I recommend that you read Walden by Henry David Thoreau especially his chapter entitled, "Higher Laws." There's another book called "The Ancient Secret of the Fountain of Youth" by Peter Kelder that explores this theme. Also, see "Anytime...for As Long as You Want: Strength, Genius, Libido, and Erection by Integrative Sex Transmutation" for more practical advice about how to plug into the power of Sex Transmutation.
Few seem to doubt the deep pure source of power and wisdom that comes from this book. Every part of it seems to bear the test of time, even the chapter that can't be named.
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Summary: The Elvis of Self-Help Offal
Review: Why do I say that this book is the Elvis of self-help offal? Because, quite literally, since its first printing some seventy or so years ago, it has spawned many objectionable pretenders to the throne. Some are unabashed plagiarizations of this book's contents, while others have profitted handsomely by distilling one or more of its useful concepts. You probably own more than a few of these books, and they probably reside in a box, tucked in the corner of your attic, closet or garage, where they quietly molder and gather dust. There have been, currently are, and most certainly will be many books like it, albeit disguised with catchy titles and stuffed with the latest and most trendy psycho-babble of the moment, but none will ever be truly the same as this book. Those who excel in their chosen professions not only know the secret it purports to 'show' the reader, but truly live it with every fiber of their being. This even I recognize now after gleaning the secrets of this book.
As for the contents of the book, it purports to have the secret formula for personal achievement, as divulged to Napoleon Hill by no less than Andrew Carnegie. In the grand tradition of all the great writers, Dr. Hill did not tell the reader the secret; rather, he showed it to the reader repeatedly by way of example. In fact, he divulged it in his foreword (and come to think of it, in the testimonials preceding the contents of the book). The book is the original source for such hackneyed sayings as, 'Never take NO for an answer', 'If you believe it, you can achieve it', 'Attitude determines altitude', and my personal favorite, 'A quitter never wins and a winner never quits'.
Every book rests on certain key assumptions, and every writer has his or her own biases, and these, in the context of Dr. Hill's subject matter, are fairly obvious. Yet, given that everyone has his or her own shortcomings, the contents of the book can be summed up in one sentence: the key to success, whether you define it materially or spiritually, is internal and not external. The entire book elaborates at length on this central point. Indeed, when you stare at the cover of the book, about one-half of the secret that it purports to teach stares you in the face. For the other half, which talks at length about the application of this secret, you will have to pick up a copy of the book and read for yourself.
While I did not agree with everything Dr. Hill professed, I did like the book overall. Even though I have no interest in riches (though I would not protest too much if they flowed my way as a result of my efforts), I nonetheless found the book quite useful. Indeed, I will include it as a permanent member of my professional armamentarium, in spite of some its more glaring flaws. I highly recommend it to those sincerely desiring to change for the better, and grow as an individual. In sum, this book, combined with The Thinker's Way by John Chaffee, will do much to aid anyone in gaining the most from efforts devoted toward self-improvement and personal development.
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