The going was hard, but his lust for gold was definite.Īfter weeks of labor, he was rewarded by the discovery of the shining ore. He staked a claim and went to work with pick and shovel.

He had never heard that more gold has been mined from the brains of men than has ever been taken from the earth. Darby was caught by the gold fever in the gold-rush days, and went west to DIG AND GROW RICH. Every person is guilty of this mistake at one time or another. Maxwell's A Lifetime 'Must Read' Books List.One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat. It remains the biggest seller of Napoleon Hill's books - a perennial best-seller after 70 years (BusinessWeek Magazine's Best-Seller List ranked Think and Grow Rich as the sixth best-selling paperback business book 70 years after it was first published). At the time of Hill's death in 1970, Think and Grow Rich had sold 20 million copies. The Reverend Charles Stanley writes 'I began to apply the principles of (Think and Grow Rich) to my endeavors as a pastor, and I discovered they worked!' The book was first published in 1937 during the Great Depression. For instance, Jim Murray (sportswriter) wrote that Think and Grow Rich was credited for Ken Norton's boxing upset of Muhammad Ali in 1973.

While the title implies that this book deals only with how to achieve monetary wealth, the author explains that the philosophy taught in the book can be used to help individuals succeed in all lines of work and to do or be almost anything they want in this world. Think and Grow Rich is a motivational personal development and self-help book written by Napoleon Hill and inspired by a suggestion from Scottish-American businessman Andrew Carnegie.

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