One of the 13 secrets Napoleon Hill discovered is called a Mastermind Alliance. Hill later become an advisor to two American presidents. Henry Ford, without touching the book, just asked one question, “Have you come in your own car or on the bus?” Napoleon Hill interviewed Andrew Carnegie and with his help, studied the richest men in the world over the next 20 years to discover and document the secrets of success. And to create a piece of art out of crap is real mastery. Napoleon Hill said proudly, “Yes, I am the writer of the book.” And he can be proud: that book he has written is a piece of art. Henry Ford looked at the man and said, “Are you the writer of the book?” And it is not only a book, it is a sure method of success.” He went forward with his book and he said, “A great book has just been published – you will be happy with it. And Napoleon Hill did not want to miss this chance. But in the very beginning days, when his book came out, he used to stand in bookstores to persuade people to purchase the book.Īnd it happened that Henry Ford came in his latest model car and went into the bookshop to find something light to read. But it was not positive thinking that was making him rich – it was fools around the world who were purchasing the book, it was his work, his labor, his effort. He became rich by selling the book, Think and Grow Rich. That would have been enough proof to disprove his whole philosophy. They give you such a simple method – and they don’t ask anything of you in return.Ībout Napoleon Hill I remember… He himself was a poor man. And of course you want to be rich, so they exploit your ambition, your desire. And all these people have been doing just that: they find examples, and they place the examples in beautiful poetic prose. Why one? – you can find hundreds of examples if you just look around and try to find them. And you can find people – this world is big enough.
Whom are you trying to befool? All these thoughts are going on: “This is just nonsense, I shouldn’t waste my time, I could be earning some dollars this way I am losing rather than gaining.”īut Napoleon Hill writes beautifully and gives examples of how people have succeeded by positive thinking. But the doubt is there, that these really are snowflakes. You see they are just snowflakes, and you again close your eyes and start thinking that dollars are showering. Once in a while you open your eyes to see whether they are dollars or just snowflakes. Naturally, positive thinking works!īut if you don’t succeed… And ninety-nine percent of the time you are not going to succeed – you know perfectly well that your positive thinking is not absolutely positive you know that there is doubt. You have been thinking and thinking and thinking and positively thinking that dollars are showering on you – these are not snowflakes but dollars showering on you – and suddenly your uncle dies and leaves you a big inheritance. If you succeed by chance, then he succeeds because his philosophy – think and grow rich – has succeeded. So these are beautiful games in which you cannot defeat the man who is proposing the game.
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