Think and Grow Rich

by Napoleon Hill

can create anything which he can imagine.

Through the aid of his imaginative faculty, man has discovered, and harnessed, more of Nature’s forces during the past fifty years than during the entire history of the human race, previous to that time.

The time will soon come when a man may breakfast in New York, and lunch in San Francisco. Man’s only limitation,

“synthetic imagination,” and the other as “creative imagination.”

Synthetic imagination:

one may arrange old concepts, ideas, or plans into new combinations. This f...

works with the material of experience, education, and observation ...

used most by the inventor, with the exception of the who draws upon the creative imagination, when he cannot solve his pro...

Creative imag...

Intelligence.

“hunches” and “inspirations” are received. It is by this faculty that all basic, or new ideas are handed over to man.

thought vibrations from the minds of other...

one individual may “tune in,” or communicate with the subconsciou...

The creative imagination works automatically, in the manner described...

functions only when the conscious mind is vibrating at an exc...

when the conscious mind is stimulated through the emotion ...

The creative faculty becomes more alert, more receptive to vibrations from the sources mentioned, in proportion...

The great leaders of business, industry, finance, and the great artists, musicians, poets, and writers became great, because they developed the faculty of creative imagination.

become more alert with use, just as any muscle or organ of the body develops through use.

Desire is only a thought, an impulse. It is nebulous and ephemeral. It is abstract, and of no value, until it has been transformed into its physical counterpart.

Center your attention, for the time being, on the development of the synthetic imagination, because this is the faculty which you will use more often in the process of converting desire into money.

Transformation of the intangible impulse, of desire, into the tangible reality, of money, calls for the use of a plan, or plans. These plans must be formed with the aid of the imagination, and mainly, with the synthetic faculty.

Carry out the instructions best suited to your needs, reduce your plan to writing, if you have not already done so. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

remember that the moment you reduce the statement of your desire, and a plan for its realization, to writing, you have actually taken the first of a series of steps, which will enable you to convert the thought into its physical counterpart.

every one of the billions of individual cells of your body, and every atom of matter, began as an intangible form of energy. desire is thought impulse! Thought impulses are forms of energy. When you begin with the thought impulse, DESIRE,

you are drafting into your service the same “stuff” that Nature used in creating this earth, and every material form in the universe, including the body and brain in which the thought impulses function.

the entire universe consists of but two elements-matter and energy. Through the combination of energy and matter, has been created everything perceptible to man, from the largest star which floats...

and I want to tell you that the moment I reached a definite decision to get the money within a specified time, a strange feeling of assurance came over me, such as I had never before experienced.

‘Why didn’t you reach that decision a long time ago? The money was waiting for you all the time!’

God seems to throw Himself on the side of the man who knows exactly what he wants, if he is determined to get just that!

A publisher of books, which sell for a nickel, made a discovery that should be worth much to publishers generally. He learned that many people buy titles, and not contents of books. By merely changing the name of one book that was not moving, his sales on that book jumped upward more than a million copies. The inside of the book was not changed in any way. He merely ripped off the cover bearing the title that did not sell, and put on a new cover with a title that had “box-office” value. That, as simple as it may seem, was an idea! It was imagination.

There is no standard price on ideas. The creator of ideas makes his own price, and, if he is smart, gets it.

Here is a wide open field of opportunity screaming its protest at the way it is being butchered, because of lack of imagination, and begging for rescue at any price. Above all, the thing that radio needs is new ideas!

The story of practically every great fortune starts with the day when a creator of ideas and a seller of ideas got together and worked in harmony. Carnegie surrounded himself with men who could do all that he could not do. Men who created ideas, and men who put ideas into operation, and made himself and the others fabulously rich.

It was no ordinary desire that survived disappointment, discouragement, temporary defeat, criticism, and the constant reminding of “waste of time.” It was a burning desire! An obsession!

Ideas are intangible forces, but they have more power than the physical brains that give birth to them.

They have the power to live on, after the brain that creates them has returned to dust. For example, take the power of Christianity. That began with a simple idea, born in the brain of Christ. Its chief tenet was, “do unto others as you would have others do unto you.” Christ has gone back to the source from whence He came, but His idea goes marching on.

Success requires no explanations failure permits no alibis

(c) Arrange to meet with the members of your “Master Mind” group at least twice a week, and more often if possible, until you have jointly perfected the necessary plan, or plans for the accumulation of money.

(d) Maintain perfect harmony between yourself and every member of your “Master Mind” group. If you fail to carry out this instruction to the letter, you may expect to meet with failure. The “Master Mind” principle cannot obtain where perfect harmony does not prevail. Keep in mind these facts:

you must have plans which are faultless.

Second. You must have the advantage of the experience, education, native ability and imagination of other minds.

No individual has sufficient experience, education, native ability, and knowledge to insure the accumulation of a great fortune, without the cooperation of other people.

If the first plan which you adopt does not work successfully, replace it with a new plan, if this new plan fails to work, replace it, in turn with still another, and so on, until you find a plan which does work.

that temporary defeat is not permanent failure.

Build other plans. Start all over again.

Thomas A. Edison “failed” ten thousand times before he perfected the incandescent electric light bulb. That is-he met with temporary defeat ten thousand times, b...

Millions of men go through life in misery and poverty, because they lack a sound plan through which to accumulate a fortune.

Your achievement can be no greater than your plans are sound.

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