experiments on 500 rich and successful people in whole world, good qualities which are similar in all of them

This is the book that started the movement on Law of Attraction.

the lesson I learned from this book is that you can achieve anything that you want in life

One of the Best book I've ever read ( )

OK. They said this was a classic book, and that might be evident, because you will realize that the popular book 'The Secret' also shares some common topics with it (borrowed maybe?). It's supposed to be a motivator. Well, I didn't enjoy it that much. To be honest, I even skipped the last 50 pages just to finish it!

I'm not saying the principles included here are wrong; they might be great! But they seemed kinda old and obvious to me, so I didn't get much out of it. I did, however, get a good grasp on the author's idea.

I also felt that the book deviated a little from its main course; not at all what I expected from the title. Perhaps I'm being a little too harsh, but the book might be good for you if you're not too much into motivators and stuff.

I gave the book 2 stars because I still got some ideas and tips from it nonetheless. In terms of content, it might get a 3 from me.

Goal setting, desire and persistence will lead to a fortune ... Sorry Napoleon, but I already knew that!

And yeah, the whole book can be summarized into one statement: Believe .. and you WILL achieve .. ! ( )

it was all good to me, until i found Napoleon Hill (the author of this book) died poor and his life was a mess. ( )

Your positive attitude, mindset can do wonders.

This books just hides one idea about how powerful our mind is and how we can really make it do what we want it to do and all the examples on the book are just really motivational ( )

Great book for personal development. All the principles route to help build one's confidence from themselves, not from any external forces. It is very true. And whoever undertands it can be a powerful one.
- One of the blessings of maturity is that it sometimes brings one greater courage to be truthful, regardless of what those who do not understand, may think or say. ( )

I enjoyed the first few sections of the book the most that overviewed the broad messages. The subsequent details were not as compelling. The 1930s perspective on success and wealth was quiet a shock at times, humorous at other times, and all together a forceful message of taking control of ones life and following desires. ( )

A must for anyone with dreams to read. Helps make a shift in mindsets. ( )

A book that was absolute required reading by the owner of a company I worked at for several years right after getting my first graduate degree. It wasn't bad, necessarily, but even though a "classic," I found it to be - like all such books to me - a lightweight, idealistic, unrealistic pep talk with little tangible value, especially when perceived as such to succeed in business. Because I've read many "business" books that provided a great more practical value than this one did... ( )

უნიჭოდ ნათარგმნია ქართულად და ბევრი ფაქტი გამოგოვებული. რუსულად სჯობდა ( )

First,to begin with,the action plan in this book is something to admire,something you'd wish all self help and inspirational writers would adopt,it's crazily effective.This beats all the other "Get rich" books by the other writers,I stand to be corrected.
Best ever.

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The success of this book proves, once and for all, that human beings are stupid, gullible and easy to make money out of.

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This book was recommended to my by my grandfather when I was less than 10 yrs old. This grandfather also told me that the Billionaires (or millionaires he may have said) started wars at will and created the necessary ruckus in Congress and in the Press after the fact to get what they want. They made huge fortunes off World War I, and even if they did have to pay income taxes for the first time to fight that kind of war, they got a substantial share of the national tax bill back for themselves into few pockets. The architectural record all over the Industrial Midwest attests to those profits. That game persists very well today with 50% of income tax going into military coffers. Less and less of that is going into the hands of military personnel and their families. There are plenty of lobbyists working on reducing even that share. Our family have deep roots in Industrial America. My grandparents' grandparents and great aunts and great uncles families played in the same sandbox with Carnegie, Mellon, Frick, Schwab, Ford, Goodyear, etc etc. since before the Civil War.

Mark Booth in his book "The Secret History of the World: As laid down by Secret Societies", which I may also have reviewed on Amazon, summed up the 2000s of years history of Neo-Platonism, or Freemasonry, or whatever other esoterica Napoleon Hill over-simplifies and sugar coats in this book. He says something like "the biggest error in the Western esoteric movement was to focus on materialism and individualism, instead of interconnectedness, spirituality, and sustainability". I couldn't have agreed with him more as I read Think and Grow Rich decades after Grandpa recommended it. It seems a classic left brain, whole brain dichotomy which impacts are now painfully evident on our planet, in our cell tissue, and imprinted on our own psyches, and those of our beloved offspring who inherited their psyches from ours.

Hill is a journalist. We can tell from our own world today where journos take official word from politicians as the explanation for things, that similar errors will arise from a generalist journo like Hill taking the word of Plutocrats about how to succeed in business. They need to cover their trails. Our family has plenty of dirt on Carnegie. It is not mentioned in the book, that Charles Schwab is cited as a huge success for envisaging the US Steel Trust, which became a monopoly, with all associated ills, that Teddy Roosevelt had to bust up so that our economy could continue to function. Said bust up resulted in the creation of rival Bethlehem Steel under Schwab and also a generous shareholding for the forebears of our current Supreme Court Justice John Roberts. No mention of the fact that Schwab died alone in one of his many over-sized white elephant houses and estranged from his wife and children. But, we know because he grew up in the next village from where my grandmother grew up. He like them was from humble German Catholic origins. She spoke of him always as "Charlie Schwab", and they were all very familiar with his many foibles and sources of his business success.

The last remark would be about Asa Candler and his Coca-Cola. Whatever the origins of cocaine in that stuff, today the high fructose corn syrup is the leading cause of diabetes and obesity in our children. The advertising is relentless, manipulative, and plays on deep identity fears. I should know because I once worked at the advertising agency that handled the account for about 50 years. These brands invented the sophisticated advertising techniques that seduce subconsciously and play on fears. The soft drink industry, with their once dependency on sugar from plantations in Cuba, and their political brethren, are now being implicated by declassified documents and the dharma work of investigative journalists who love America, in the assassination of JFK. They are also implicated in the failed attempt at the theatrical event designed to trigger the press ruckus Grandpa said they'd need to get the American people to back an invasion of Cuba. An invasion JFK refused to his demise, whose real purpose was to get nationalized plantations (and workers) back into the hands of dynastic American Yankee families who had owned them since we were a British Colony probably.

Soft drinks bottling was also the way this same crowd established their tentacles in the resource rich third-world by awarding franchises to their clone oligarchs and cement the interdependency on sugar, money, arms, coercion, "free markets" which means no trade unions or democracy in those countries ever. It is also the permanent money maker in countries where there is no investment in anything else to advance the people's lives. The impacts of this kind of business are terrible. Asa of course didn't know any of this would happen, but the stuff was clearly of no nutritional value, but rather another American "tonic" with dubious and impossible to measure psychological claims.

These are hardly the attributes of people who claim to have higher moral principles, or spiritually inspired gifts. The whole thing was a project to culturally invade a nation of people into thinking and believing that they too could become rich, without the benefits of monopolies, private Pinkerton Police forces, bought legislatures, public land grants, tax breaks, stacked courts...the list goes on. It speaks of a kind of Lucifer or Ahriman reconstitution to appear to the uninitiated (pun fully intended) that which it isn't, shrouding pure evil in goodness and light. The purveyors of this over simplified stuff do a great disservice to readers. They also do a great disservice to esoterica and Neo-Platonism.

At least now the cover is blowing, and more mirrors are appearing in the hallway. So we're now seeing more of these hidden angles! I would recommend Paulo Freire "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" to really learn about how one really does becomes rich, just like Grandpa said and with depth of historic evidence, and more importantly how we all could become more prosperous together as a whole world! ( )

Sensible book for the disciplined heart. The prequel to "The Secret". ( )

A motivational personal development and self-help.

4 stars ( )