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iiThink and Grow Rich: Real Estate EditionNapoleon HillTHINKANDGROW RICHReal Estate EditionReal Estate Action Steps and Treasure MapBy Tim & Julie HarrisEdited by A. B. GuitryTim & Julie Harris Real Estate Coachinghttp://timandjulieharris.com
Published 1938 The Ralston Society, Meriden, Conn.Copyright 1937 by Napoleon HillThis book is a reproduction of the complete and original 1937version of Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, originallypublished by The Ralston Society and now in the public domain.This edition published with an original cover design by ZiziIryaspraha S. with original foreword and additional Real Estatematerials by Tim & Julie Harris. This edition is neithersponsored nor endorsed by, or otherwise affiliated with, theNapoleon Hill Foundation, The Ralston Society, or any otherperson or entity.
ivThink and Grow Rich: Real Estate EditionTABLE OF CONTENTSForewordviAuthor’s PrefacexIntroduction1Desire: The Starting Point of All Achievement21Faith Visualization of, and Belief in Attainmentof Desire47Auto-Suggestion: The Medium for Influencingthe Subconscious Mind73Specialized Knowledge, Personal Experience orObservations83Imagination: The Workshop of the Mind103Organized Planning: The Crystallization ofDesire into Action123Decision: The Mastery of Procrastination173Persistence: The Sustained Effort Necessary toInduce Faith189Power of the Master Mind: The Driving Force211The Mystery of Sex Transmutation221The Subconscious Mind: The Connecting Link247The Brain: A Broadcasting and Receiving Stationfor Thought257The Sixth Sense: The Door to the Temple ofWisdom265How to Outwit the Six Ghosts of Fear281REAL ESTATE TREASURE MAP324Tim & Julie Harris Real Estate Coachinghttp://timandjulieharris.com
viThink and Grow Rich: Real Estate EditionForewordWhat the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.Napoleon HillWARNING: This book is not for everyone. Reading thecontents of this book will cause an immediate erosion of thefaulty, life-limiting, dream-killing thinking that has caused somany people to needlessly live a life of despair and in a constantstate of ‘good enough.’Is this book for you? It might not be. Frankly, you may not beready.You must answer these five simple questions with a powerfulYES:1) Are you finally ready to do whatever it takes (legally,morally, and ethically) to become truly rich?Note: Rich is defined by your money is working for YOU andyou no longer have to work for your money.2) Have you been searching for someone to take you by thehand and show you the exact path to achieve your life’s desires?3) Can you open your mind to new ways of thinking aboutcreating a financial fortune that will result in everything yourheart can desire?4) Can you set aside your preconceived notions about ‘RichPeople?’ In a time when ‘Rich Bashing’ is trendy, can you focuson what you are about to read and internalize Hill’s powerful,life-affirming, money making secrets?Tim & Julie Harris Real Estate Coachinghttp://timandjulieharris.com
5) Are you an individual or small business owner (Real EstateProfessional) searching for an exacting, step-by-step plan toaccelerate your financial fortunes?Note: Included in this special Real Estate Edition is theexclusive HARRIS REAL ESTATE UNIVERSITY TreasureMap - Real Estate Business Plan.Did you answer YES to ALL of these questions? If so, read on.You are about to begin a journey that will forever change yourlife.Think and Grow Rich, is one of the best-selling books of alltime. There have been millions of millionaires (and billionaires)who have earned their vast fortunes as a direct result of readingThink and Grow Rich, more than any other book ever published.This book has been a staple of any successful person’sbookshelf for decades. Originally, this book was publishedduring the Great Depression. This is perhaps a not so irrelevantfact when you consider that we are in the midst of whathistorians are now calling The Great Recession. At the time ofHill’s death in 1970, Think and Grow Rich had sold more than70 million copies. It remains the biggest seller of NapoleonHill’s books - a perennial best seller after 80-plus years.Why be rich?A recent survey from Spectrem Group has shown that peoplewho have achieved a level of worth of 5 million or greater aremore likely to experience a higher degree of happiness in atleast three of the most important elements in their lives – theirsocial life, relationships, and their work. More than 70% ofpenta-millionaires reported being very satisfied in theirrelationships (including their relationships with their children),compared with only 45% of those who are merely affluent. Thisgreater sense of satisfaction is particularly true when referring tomultimillionaires with regard to their jobs and their social lives,areas in which the Spectrem study found that they are more thantwice as satisfied than those worth 100,000 or less.
viiiThink and Grow Rich: Real Estate EditionFree your mind of the limiting beliefs that have been holdingyou back.In this landmark timeless book, Napoleon Hill takes the readeron a journey of self-discovery to the very core of what it takes tobecome truly rich. Finally revealed are all of the closely guardedsecrets of history’s richest people. Throughout this book youwill learn exactly what to do now to finally become - RICH.Think and Grow Rich will give you the principles that formedwhat Hill referred to as, the “philosophy of personalachievement.” As an added bonus, Tim and Julie Harris,founders of HARRIS REAL ESTATE UNIVERSITY, haveincluded your precise, step-by-step guide. At the end of eachchapter you will know how to apply Hill’s teachings to yourbusiness. You will learn how to conquer many common fears,such as: Poverty, Ill Health, Criticism, Loss of Love and Death.Think and Grow Rich is indispensable reading for personalachievement.During the past twenty-five years I have been blessed with moregood fortune than any individual deserves but I shudder to thinkwhere I’d be today, or what I’d be doing if I had not beenexposed to Napoleon Hill’s philosophy. It changed my life.Og Mandino, Author and LecturerIf you have ever wondered what it would be like to be in theright place at the right time, you are about to find out. You AREin the RIGHT PLACE and NOW is YOUR Time.Tim & Julie Harris Real Estate Coachinghttp://timandjulieharris.com
xThink and Grow Rich: Real Estate EditionAuthor’s PrefaceIN EVERY chapter of this book, mention has been made of themoney-making secret that has made fortunes for more than fivehundred exceedingly wealthy men whom I have carefullyanalyzed over a long period of years.The secret was brought to my attention by Andrew Carnegie,more than a quarter of a century ago. The canny, lovable oldScotsman carelessly tossed it into my mind, when I was but aboy. He sat back in his chair, with a merry twinkle in his eyes,and watched carefully to see if I had brains enough tounderstand the full significance of what he had said to me.When he saw that I had grasped the idea, he asked if I would bewilling to spend twenty years or more, preparing myself to takeit to the world, to men and women who, without the secret,might go through life as failures. I said I would, and with Mr.Carnegie’s cooperation, I have kept my promise.This book contains the secret, after having been put to apractical test by thousands of people in almost every walk oflife. It was Mr. Carnegie’s idea that the magic formula, whichgave him a stupendous fortune, ought to be placed within reachof people who do not have time to investigate how men makemoney, and it was his hope that I might test and demonstrate thesoundness of the formula through the experience of men andwomen in every calling.He believed the formula should be taught in all public schoolsand colleges, and expressed the opinion that if it were properlytaught it would so revolutionize the entire educational systemthat the time spent in school could be reduced to less than half.His experience with Charles M. Schwab, and other young menof Mr. Schwab’s type, convinced Mr. Carnegie that much of thatwhich is taught in the schools is of no value whatsoever inTim & Julie Harris Real Estate Coachinghttp://timandjulieharris.com
connection with the business of earning a living or accumulatingriches. He had arrived at this decision, because he had taken intohis business one young man after another, many of them withbut little schooling, and by coaching them in the use of thisformula, developed in them rare leadership. Moreover, hiscoaching made fortunes for everyone of them who followed hisinstructions. In the chapter on Faith, you will read theastounding story of the organization of the giant United StatesSteel Corporation, as it was conceived and carried out by one ofthe young men through whom Mr. Carnegie proved that hisformula will work for all who are ready for it. This singleapplication of the secret, by that young man – Charles M.Schwab – made him a huge fortune in both money andOPPORTUNITY. Roughly speaking, this particular applicationof the formula was worth six hundred million dollars. Thesefacts – and they are facts well known to almost everyone whoknew Mr. Carnegie – give you a fair idea of what the reading ofthis book may bring to you, provided you KNOW WHAT IT ISTHAT YOU WANT.Even before it had undergone twenty years of practical testing,the secret was passed on to more than one hundred thousandmen and women who have used it for their personal benefit, asMr. Carnegie planned that they should. Some have madefortunes with it. Others have used it successfully in creatingharmony in their homes. A clergyman used it so effectively thatit brought him an income of upwards of 75,000.00 a year.Arthur Nash, a Cincinnati tailor, used his near-bankruptbusiness as a “guinea pig” on which to test the formula. Thebusiness came to life and made a fortune for its owners. It is stillthriving, although Mr. Nash has gone. The experiment was sounique that newspapers and magazines gave it more than amillion dollars’ worth of laudatory publicity.The secret was passed on to Stuart Austin Wier, of Dallas,Texas. He was ready for it; so ready that he gave up hisprofession and studied law. Did he succeed? That story is toldtoo.
xiiThink and Grow Rich: Real Estate EditionI gave the secret to Jennings Randolph, the day he graduatedfrom College, and he has used it so successfully that he is nowserving his third term as a Member of Congress, with anexcellent opportunity to keep on using it until it carries him tothe White House.While serving as Advertising Manager of the La-SalleExtension University, when it was little more than a name, I hadthe privilege of seeing J. G. Chapline, President of theUniversity, use the formula so effectively that he has since madethe LaSalle one of the great extension schools of the country.The secret to which I refer has been mentioned no fewer than ahundred times, throughout this book. It has not been directlynamed, for it seems to work more successfully when it is merelyuncovered and left in sight, where THOSE WHO ARE READY,and SEARCHING FOR IT, may pick it up. That is why Mr.Carnegie tossed it to me so quietly, without giving me itsspecific name.If you are READY to put it to use, you will recognize this secretat least once in every chapter. I wish I might feel privileged totell you how you will know if you are ready, but that woulddeprive you of much of the benefit you will receive when youmake the discovery in your own way.While this book was being written, my own son, who was thenfinishing the last year of his college work, picked up themanuscript of chapter two, read it, and discovered the secret forhimself. He used the information so effectively that he wentdirectly into a responsible position at a beginning salary greaterthan the average man ever earns. His story has been brieflydescribed in chapter two.When you read it, perhaps you will dismiss any feeling you mayhave had, at the beginning of the book, that it promised toomuch. And, too, if you have ever been discouraged, if you havehad difficulties to surmount which took the very soul out of you,Tim & Julie Harris Real Estate Coachinghttp://timandjulieharris.com
if you have tried and failed, if you were ever handicapped byillness or physical affliction, this story of my son’s discoveryand use of the Carnegie formula may prove to be the oasis in theDesert of Lost Hope, for which you have been searching.This secret was extensively used by President Woodrow Wilson,during the World War. It was passed on to every soldier whofought in the war, carefully wrapped in the training receivedbefore going to the front. President Wilson told me it was astrong factor in raising the funds needed for the war.More than twenty years ago, Hon. Manuel L. Quezon (thenResident Commissioner of the Philippine Islands), was inspiredby the secret to gain freedom for his people. He has gainedfreedom for the Philippines, and is the first President of the FreeState. A peculiar thing about this secret is that those who onceacquire it and use it, find themselves literally swept on tosuccess, with but little effort, and they never again submit tofailure! If you doubt this, study the names of those who haveused it, wherever they have been mentioned, check their recordsfor yourself, and be convinced.There is no such thing as SOMETHING FOR NOTHING!The secret to which I refer cannot be had without a price,although the price is far less than its value. It cannot be had atany price by those who are not intentionally searching for it. Itcannot be given away, it cannot be purchased for money, for thereason that it comes in two parts. One part is already inpossession of those who are ready for it. The secret servesequally well, all who are ready for it.Education has nothing to do with it. Long before I was born, thesecret had found its way into the possession of Thomas A.Edison, and he used it so intelligently
Think and Grow Rich, more than any other book ever published. This book has been a staple of any successful person’s bookshelf for decades. Originally, this book was published during the Great Depression. This is perhaps a not so irrelevant fact when you consider that we are in the midst of what historians are now calling The Great Recession. At the time of Hill’s death in 1970, Think and .
