Think and Grow Rich

by Napoleon Hill

KNOW WHAT HE WANTED, AND THE DETERMINATION TO STAND BY THAT DESIRE UNTIL HE REALIZED IT.

counsel before giving up.

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

riches begin with a state of mind,

that before we can accumulate riches in great abundance, we must magnetize our minds with intense DESIRE for riches, that we must become "money conscious until the DESIRE for money drives us to create definite plans for acquiring it.

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DESIRE: THE STARTING POINT OF ALL ACHIEVEMENT

Barnes succeeded because he chose a definite goal, placed all his energy, all his will power, all his effort, everything back of that goal.

Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.

Write out a clear, concise statement of the amount of money you intend to acquire, name the time limit for its acquisition, state what you intend to give in return for the money, and describe clearly the plan through which you intend to accumulate it.

You may as well know, right here, that you can never have riches in great quantities, UNLESS you can work yourself into a white heat of DESIRE for money, and actually BELIEVE you will possess it.

If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance.

Edison, the world's greatest inventor and scientist, was a "tramp" telegraph operator, he failed innumerable times before he was driven, finally, to the discovery of the genius which slept within his brain.

No one is ready for a thing, until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be BELIEF,

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"Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds."

my own son has taught me that handicaps can be converted into stepping stones on which one may climb toward some worthy goal, unless they are accepted as obstacles, and used as alibis.

STRONG DESIRE "that something" which recognizes no such word as impossible, and accepts no such reality as failure.

FAITH is a state of mind which may be induced, or created, by affirmation or repeated instructions to the subconscious mind, through the principle of auto-suggestion.

Faith

you may CONVINCE the subconscious mind that you believe you will receive that for which you ask,