The Book in Three Sentences

The starting point of achieving your aims in life is burning desire, followed by goal setting and detailed planning. Successful people have incredible faith in themselves and use auto-suggestion that builds subconscious that influences out behavior. Successful people know their strength and weaknesses and continuously acquire new knowledge and puts them into organized plan and actions.

Think and Grow Rich — Summary

This is my book summary of Think and Grow Rick by Napoleon Hill. My summary contains my thoughts and often contains quotes from the book. It is completely informal.

• Everything is possible if you have initiative, faith, and the will to win even without money and little education.
• Before every success, there is a failure. That is when most people quit.
• The weakness of humankind is the familiarity of the word “impossible”, people always know all the ways why it will not work in advance.
• Determination is the key to success, get the word “impossible” out of the vocabulary.
• Thomas Edison was successful because he applied the principle of success — Burning Desire, even though he failed 10,000 times in experiments, he still managed to invent an electric light bulb.
• Goal setting and detailed planning are the basis of every achievement.
• No plan B — the desire should be such burning that it should not have time to think of another plan. e.g. I will work on this but will keep my eye open for another opportunity, in case I fail to get what I want.
• The desire for riches can be transmuted into its financial equivalent using the following steps: 1. Determine the exact amount of money you desire > 2. Determine what you intend to give in return for the money you desire > 3. Set a deadline of will possess the money you desire > 4. Create a definite plan > 5. Write down everything on the paper > 6. Read written statements aloud twice daily.
• Visualize the person you want to become.
• Every small success is proof that you are able to achieve more success, you can recall it when you feel disappointed at any time in your life.
• greatest weakness is a lack of self-confidence
• The principle of autosuggestion reaches the subconscious mind and influences it with this thought, no thought whether positive or negative can enter the subconscious mind without the aid of the principle of autosuggestion.
• You should mix your emotions while visualizing your identity. For example, you need to mix emotions and faith while saying the following famous formula: “Day by day, in every way, I am getting better and better”
• faith is the most powerful emotion that drives people to accomplish their goals.
• Knowledge is not power, it is just potential power. It becomes power if it is organized into definite plans and put into action.
• A person can be considered educated when they know where to get the knowledge and know how to organize the knowledge into definite plans and actions.
• imagination is a workshop where people create plans.
• limitation of humankind is the lack of development of the use of our imagination.
• Successful people always develop the faculty of creative imagination.
• quitter never wins and winner never quits
• QQS formula means quality plus quantity plus spirit of corporation equals perfect marketing of service
• procrastination is a common enemy of everybody
• tell people what you intend to do but first show it
• persistence is the basis of the power of will
• develop persistence you need to 1. have a definite purpose backed up by burning desire. 2. definite plan including continuous steps, 3. mind closed against negative ideas from other people, 4. group with people who encourage you
• group of people coordinated provides more value than a single one
• energy can be communicated to others through 1. handshake, 2. tone of voice. 3. posture of the body, 4. vibration of thoughts 5. body adornment
• The subconscious mind works day and night
• starting point of all achievements is a burning desire.

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