Phyllostachys Four: Think and Grow Rich

Napolean Hill is one of innumerable people who have proposed schemes or recipes for the "get rich quick" ideals....except that he had personal research to back up his plan. Can you "think and grow rich"? See this review of Hill's classic self-help book:

"Think and Grow Rich

By Napoleon Hill

[a book review] by Michael C. Gray

April 24, 2001

When I meet with young people coming into public accounting, I'm stunned that they are unaware of many of the classics of success philosophy and motivation. One that should be in everyone's success library is Think And Grow Rich.

Andrew Carnegie was the Bill Gates of his day. He came to the United States from Scotland and made a fortune in the steel industry. When you use a public library, you can thank Andrew Carnegie, who became a great philanthropists and made donations for building many of the public libraries in the United States. He also made big endowments to Universities.

Andrew Carnegie also had the reputation of having more millionaires working for him than any other employer of his time.

Carnegie was fascinated with success and wanted to understand why some men became successful while others in very similar circumstances did not. So he commissioned Napoleon Hill to interview the nation's most successful men to find a success formula that would work for the common man. Hill interviewed 504 people, including Ford, Wrigley, Wanamaker, Eastman, Rockefeller, Edison, Woolworth, Darrow, Burbank, Morgan, Firestone, and three United States Presidents.

The process of conducting these interviews required an investment of twenty years of Napoleon Hill's life.

Hill distilled his findings into a 13 step formula, which was published in Think And Grow Rich.

Since Think And Grow Rich was first published in 1937, it has been used as a roadmap to achievement by countless individuals. (Incidentally, Melvin Powers initially built the Wilshire Book Company by getting the paperback publishing rights to Think And Grow Rich and making it a best seller.)

As you may gather from the title, a premise of Think And Grow Rich is the starting place for wealth is in a person's thoughts.

The source for most of today's motivational speakers remains Think And Grow Rich. So why not go back to the source yourself? Be sure to include Think And Grow Rich on your reading list."
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One of the greatest debates in today's society is the increasing, seemingly unbridgeable chasm between those we deem wealthy and those we deem poor. The only equitable way to address this debate and to bridge the chasm is to educate those who are poor on methods for altering their lot in life to better themselves and their respective families and peers. This education will not come in the form of schooling...but through one of the world's oldest arts, that of proselytizing - teaching by human contact, advertising and publication (in all forms of media) ideas relevant to changing one's knowledge and viewpoint, to be aware of the possibilities available for short- and long-term wealth and health creation.

Do you agree with this? Is this a hopeless and solutionless conundrum? Leave a comment... ;-)

..Phyllostachys.