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"Think and Grow Rich"

Can one engineer his own success? Is it possible to become wealthy or powerful merely by breaking out of traditional thought patterns and changing the way one approaches life? According to Napoleon Hill, it is. In his book, Think and Grow Rich, Hill uses the principles of Andrew Carnegie, who founded U.S. Steel and amassed a great personal fortune in the process to suggest that success for most people is just a mindset away. This research examines the ideas in Hill's work and relates them to today's business world, with an emphasis on the entrepreneur.

Hill suggests that desire is at the root of all achievement. You have to want something badly enough that you are willing to pursue it vigorously, and not give up, in order to achieve it (33). He is not particular about what the desire is for, be it wealth, fame, power, happiness or spiritual fulfillment. The important ingredient is that the individual be able to identify something to achieve, and have a drive, not just a passing interest, in achieving it.

But desire is not enough to bring about ultimate success. The individual must also believe in his ability to achieve that success. This is the faith ingredient, and requires that the individual believe that he is capable of success in whatever endeavor he desires. For some, this means that the individual must put aside conventional wisdom and traditional thinking and believe in himself when very few others would be willing to do so. Hill uses the story of Carnegie, J.P. Morgan and Charles Schwab creating a steel trust to illustrate his point. It was Morgan's belief that he could bring Carnegie into such a trust (a necessary partner) that gave him the confidence to pursue the entire idea (64). Schwab also did well in the exchange, becoming head of the new company and making a substantial fortune of his own.

Besides desire and faith, Hill also advocates the use of autosuggestion in order to influence the subconsciou...

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