Name: Think and Grow Rich
SKU: 56791889
Price: 63.71 NZD
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Author: Napoleon Hill
ISBN: 9789357943192

Type

Physical Book

Author

Napoleon Hill

Publisher

V & S Publisher

Language

English

Pages

258

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.6x14x1.4 cm

Weight

0.30 kg.

ISBN13

9789357943192

Synopsis "Think and Grow Rich"

First published during the Great Depression, Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich continues to be a bestselling self-help book. It has also been listed in John C. Maxwell's 'A Lifetime "Must Read" Books List'. Based on Hill's earlier work, The Law of Success, the text represents the wisdom of highly successful men. The book offers ideas on how these successful men, including Andrew Carnegie, mastered the secret of growing and lasting success. Hill closely studied their practices and habits and formulated fourteen principles in the form of "Philosophy of Achievement". However, the book is much more than about earning money, and its teachings hold true for everyone, irrespective of their line of work. The book motivates readers to overcome and suppress any negative thoughts hindering their path to success by persisting towards their long-term goals, having faith, and by maintaining their desire to achieve them. The book asserts that an intense passion for one's goal is the primary key to success.

Napoleon Hill

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Oliver Napoleon Hill was born on October 26, 1883 in Wise County, Virginia, United States. He grew up in a humble family and faced a difficult childhood after the death of his mother, but his perseverance and ambition led him to become one of the most influential authors in the self-help and personal development genre of the 20th century.

Hill began his career as a local reporter and, according to his own account, was tasked with interviewing Andrew Carnegie, who supposedly entrusted him with the principles of success. Although the veracity of this encounter has been questioned, Hill built his philosophy from interviews and observations of figures such as Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and John D. Rockefeller. His life was marked by ups and downs, including business failures, accusations of fraud, and personal reinventions, but he always maintained his message of self-improvement and positive thinking.

Hill's style combines anecdotes, practical principles, and an optimistic view of human potential, advocating the importance of mindset, perseverance, and collaboration (the "Master Mind") as keys to success.

His legacy continues thanks to the work of the Napoleon Hill Foundation, a non-profit educational institution based in Virginia, the author's hometown, which has hundreds of thousands of followers on social media and aims to make the world "a better place to live".

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