Think and Grow Rich

by Napoleon Hill

appearance.” Barnes was ready for a business association with Edison, moreover, he was determined to remain ready until he got that which he was seeking.

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.

what he wanted, and the determination to stand by that desire until he realized it

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.

that we are the Masters of our Fate, the Captains of our Souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts.

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.

nothing is impossible to the person who backs desire with enduring faith.

because of the dominating thoughts which he permits to occupy his mind.

No man is ever whipped, until he quits — in his own mind.

A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.

Money, of itself, is nothing but inert matter. It cannot move, think, or talk, but it can “hear” when a man who desires it, calls it to come!

There is something radically wrong with a civilization, and a system of education, which permit 98% of the people to go through life as failures. But

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Sounds like Saturn!

serves as a target for the joke makers.” A better definition of a genius is, “a man who has discovered how to increase the vibrations of thought to the point where he can freely communicate with sources of knowledge not available through the ordinary rate of vibration of thought.”