Think and Grow Rich

• His bulldog determination, his persistence with a single desire, was destined to mow down all opposition and bring him the opportunity he was seeking.
• He had nothing to start with, except the capacity to know what he wanted, and the determination to stand by that desire until he realized it.
• One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.
• More gold has been mined from the brains of men than has ever been taken from the earth.
• Their greatest success came just one-step beyond the point at which defeat had overtaken them.
• Study failure in search of knowledge.
• When riches begin to come, they come so quickly, in such great abundance, that one wonders where they have been hiding during all those lean years.
• Riches begin with a state of mind.
• Success comes to those who become success conscious.
• Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.
• You are the master of your fate, the captain of your soul.
• Our brains become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds. These magnets attract to us the forces, the people, and the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.
• The desire for money drives us to create definite plans for acquiring it.
• Maintain a spirit of open-mindedness.
• He chose a definite goal, and placed all his energy, all his willpower, and all his effort into achieving that goal.
• He burned all bridges behind him.
• I will burn all bridges behind me, and stake my entire future on my ability to get what I want.
• One must realize that all who have accumulated great fortunes first did a certain amount of dreaming, hoping, wishing, desiring, and planning before they acquired money.
• Practical dreamers have always been, and always will be, the pattern makers of civilization.
• Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition.
• No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be belief, not hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief.
• God moves in mysterious ways.
• Faith is a state of mind.
• The subconscious mind proceeds to translate the impulse into its physical equivalent by the most practical procedure available.
• The emotions, or the feeling portion of thoughts, are the factors that give thoughts vitality, life and action.
• It is essential for you to encourage the positive emotions as dominating forces of your mind, and eliminate negative emotions.
• Faith is the element that transforms the ordinary vibration of thought, created by the finite mind of man, into the spiritual equivalent.
• The human mind is constantly attracting vibrations that harmonize with that which dominates the mind. Any thought, idea, plan, or purpose which one holds in one’s mind attracts, from the vibrations of the ether, a host of its relatives.
• I will cause others to believe in me, because I will believe in them, and in myself.
• All impressions perceived through the five senses are stopped by the conscious mind, and may be either passed on to the suconsious mind or rejected at will.
• Plain, unemotional words do not influence the subconscious mind.
• Capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
• Knowledge will not attract money unless it is organized and intelligently directed through practical plans of action to the definite end of accumulation of money.
• Knowledge is only potential power.
• The accumulation of great fortunes calls for power, and power is acquired through highly organized and intelligently directed specialized knowledge, but that knowledge does not necessarily have to be in the possession of the person who accumulates the fortune.
• Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application toward some worthy end. This is one reason why university degrees are not guarantees of successful careers.
• The person who stops studying merely because they have finished school is forever hopelessly doomed to mediocrity, no matter what their calling.
• Too many of those who begin at the bottom never manage to lift their heads high enough to be seen by opportunity.
• We call it “getting into a rut” which means we accept our fate because we form the habit of daily routine, a habit that finally becomes so strong we cease to try to throw it off.
• Both success and failure are largely the results of habit.
• Determination is only the first step. It must be followed by hard work, a regime of physical and mental exercise and whatever it takes to bring us to peak performance.
• There is no fixed price for sound ideas.
• Capability means imagination, the one quality needed to combine specialized knowledge with ideas in the form of organized plans designed to yield riches.
• Desire is only a thought, an impulse. It is abstract and of no value until it has been transformed into its physical counterpart.
• If you are one of those who believe that hard work and honesty alone will bring riches, perish the thought! It is not true.
• Creators of ideas make their own price, and if they are smart, they get it.
• Every great fortune starts with the day when a creator of ideas and a seller of ideas got together and worked in harmony.
• First you give life, action, and guidance to ideas, and then they take on a power of their own and sweep aside all opposition.
• Everything that is created or acquired begins in the form of desire.
• Align yourself with a group of as many people as you may need for the creation and carrying out of your plan.
• You must have plans that are faultless.
• No individual has sufficient experience, education, natural ability, and knowledge to ensure the accumulation of a great fortune without the cooperation of other people.
• Most people lack persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
• Temporary defeat is not permanent failure.
• Temporary defeat should mean only one thing- The certain knowledge that there is something wrong with your plan.
• Decide at the outset whether you intend to become a leader in your chosen calling or remain a follower. The difference in compensation is vast.
• They became great leaders because they were intelligent followers.
• People cannot control themselves can never control others.
• The successful leader must plan the work, and work the plan.
• The world does not pay for what people know, it pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.
• Leaders who make too much of their titles generally have little else to emphasize.
• Failure cannot cope with persistence.
• The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others have finished choosing.
• People who succeed keep open minds and are afraid of nothing.
• The jack-of-all-trades is seldom great at any. Concentrate your efforts on one definite chief aim.
• Without enthusiasm one cannot be convincing.
• The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their n3eeds are, generally, easily influenced by the opinions of others.
• Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them.
• If you are influenced by the opinions of others, you will have no desire of your own.
• Those who talk too much do little else.
• The starting point of all achievement is desire.
• Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent advantage.
• Persistence is the direct result of habit.
• Examine the next hundred people you meet. Ask them what they want most in life, and 98 of them will not be able to tell you.
• Riches do not respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.
• Power may be defined as “organized and intelligently directed knowledge.”
• A good definition of a genius is “a person who has discovered how to increase the vibrations of thought to the point where they can freely communicate with sources of knowledge not available through the ordinary rate of vibration of thought.
• The mind is a creature of habit. It thrives upon the dominating thoughts fed to it.
• The effect of love endures because love is spiritual in nature.
• You may voluntarily plant in your subconscious mind any plan, thought or purpose which you desire to translate into its physical or monetary equivalent.
• The subconscious mind is the medium of communication between the thinking mind and infinite intelligence.
• Everything that is created begins in the form of a thought impulse. Nothing can be created that is not first conceived in thought. Through the aid of the imagination, thought impulses may be assembled into plans.
• Only emotionalized thoughts have any action influence upon the subconscious mind.
• 7 major positive emotions: Desire, Faith, Love, Sex, Enthusiasm, Romance, and Hope.
• Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time. One or the other must dominate. You can choose.

Source: Think and Grow Rich By: Napoleon Hill