I'm amazed that this book continues to be so popular. The fact that was popular at the time is not surprising, but for a modern reader to enjoy wading through so much superstition and pseudoscience simply to get at a handful of actionable ideas baffles me.


What Hill got right: becoming successful in business (as in anything) requires desire and focus. He understood this and did a good job of summarizing the overall idea. Unfortunately, he spends the rest of the book hammering away at that idea to the point of annoying many readers. He also offers a few valuable suggestions such as to practically brainstorm about goals or how to review them.


What he gets wrong (just to mention a few points): 1. Desire does not guarantee that something will happen. Hill describes the outcome of desire as a certainty, rather than a likelihood. 2. Refusing to let his mute son to learn sign language did not cure the boy's hearing loss (seriously?). 3. Tearing the word "impossible" out of a dictionary doesn't change the nature of reality. 4. Appealing to science and research is hearsay without citation 5. Writing every other word in CAPS is not CONVINCING.


So many other books can inspire entrepreneurs without the nonsense in this work. I suggest reading something else, maybe Seth Godin or Michael Gerber.

I was recommended to read "Think and Grow Rich" from my life coach and found it to be a decent read. I will be honest though and say that although I found some helpful nuggets along the way, I didn't love the book.

The author, Napolean Hill, was from the "New Thought" movement, which ultimately paved the way for the harmful rise of the prosperity gospel amongst Western culture. Although, highly motivational in theory, it can be very harmful in practice.

There were some helpful thoughts scattered throughout the book, such as, creating vision for yourself, setting tangible goals, positive self talk, etc. However, the focus on money and achievement as the ultimate means to happiness is foolish and misguided. Yes, many of the men that Hill interviewed were "successful" by the worlds standards, but spiritually poor. I also was put off by the section where he wouldn't let his deaf son learn sign language so that he could integrate into society. Ultimately, why couldn't his son have done both?

At the end of the day, positivity is a helpful tool, but it can't be a messiah.

DNF.

This book reads like those Facebook posts you see from acquaintances that got involved in a pyramid scheme and they have to constantly hype their product but everyone knows its trash. "With AQUALUNG 3000, I can BREATHE through my KNEECAP, which allows me up to 2,000 PERCENT more OXYGEN!!"

I'm sure there are things to be gained from this book....if you read it in 1950.

...Huge shifts in variants of English language I have come by when reading past Robinson Cruesoe, to listening to J.K. Rowling speeches. A fresh new kind I arrived at when reading this book—a one of a kind style.

This book helped me shift from a poverty-stricken mindset to one that operated from abundance all the time. I had a massive poverty—striken mindset of ‘What-if-I-run-out-of-money’. This one died as I read this book and reflected over the myriads of real life of stories of people who drew monetary wealth towards themselves, even when the world stacked odds about that path. But this 25-year old research work of Napolean Hill really stretches more than that. It silently urges every reader to not merely seek money but also grow as an individual alongside which in turn will secure the money wealth that ultimately seek. You cannot have a very aggressive attitude and be wealthy in the highest sense—you can’t. This is well-outlined throughout the book.

Questions you will want to ask as you read along—how do you treat your colleagues, coworkers, employees, people at home?

Some of the things that are necessary to become wealthy as outlines by Napolean Hill (which many many times wealth-seekers discount as unimportant) are:

‘Unwillingness to render humble service’

‘Lack of a pleasing personality’

’Selfishness’

‘Disloyalty’

‘Lack of Imagination’

‘Emphasis of title’—the competent leader requires not title to give him the respect of his followers


(THE LAST POINT IS SOMETHING EXTREMELY IMPORTANT IN THE MEDICAL INDUSTRY OF INDIA….So many people ‘demanding’ respect for their title of a ‘medical doctor’——sorry….that doesn’t grant you anything!!!!)

The other points the in the book—equally valuable, but a little more obvious requirements as opposed to the ones I mentioned above which so many people discount as very very very important requirements for money to really arrive in your life


A little more about my story——where I come from, poverty is considered the norm, hard work as the answer to that!

Actually there’s way more—money is only a piece of paper—a by-product of a way of being, and a way of providing service that the world currently requires. It is possible for everyone, but you will need to grow as a human too.

Plus, I learnt something extremely interesting in this book——a powerful thing for a creator-mind person like me—it is called, ’Sex transmutation’. It means transmuting sexual energy for creativity. I had no clue all hardcore creators do that—some knowingly, some unknowingly.


So many things to learn from this book! Remember it is a 25-year research by the author! Many many stars!

There are the kind of books that need to re-read over and over again because the inertia of human minds are sure to catch up and instructions from a gem of a book like this can help position us back on track

What a great book! And the resemblence of some of the concepts given in this book and the teachings of Islam is quite remarkable!

Let's be honest to ourselves and face the truth: success in business depends on a complex equation with a lot of variants, such as 1) how well your business idea adapts to the powers of supply and demand, which govern (and oppress) contemporary society, 2) where you come from economically to begin with (I've seen aromatherapy businesses run by middle-class sons of bitches grow and be more "successful" than neighborhood food establishments run by poor honest people), 3) how much investing capital you have at the time of creating your business, 4) your race, and 5) sheer dumb luck.

Quotes like “The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat” are ludicrous, absolutely ridiculous and delve into the worst kind of new-agey, self-help bullshitting bullying: victim-blaming. So, if your business is not successful, you are to blame, because you simply failed to desire it enough? Fuck that shit. This book is a perfect example of everything that is wrong in today's first-world-white-heterosexual-male-dominated economic culture. Tell me that such ideas as "desiring it enough" would work in Somalia, hell, even in Egypt, and then we'll talk.

Don't waste your time with this codswallop. Read real literature instead: you'll definitely increase your IQ this way.

Think And Grow Rich is a great book. I recommend listening to Bob Proctor’s YouTube video on Napoleon Hill’s book. This book has invaluable information that everyone needs to read. -Isaac Miller (Author Of, Just Get Up: And Manifest Inner Genius)

فلسفة النوايا الحسنة ومساعدة الآخرين والحب والإنضباط الذاتي وإمتلاك غايات كبرى في الحياة.

الكتاب سيء، مبهم وكثير الحشو ويميل لتبجيل الرأسمالية الأمريكية بقومية سقيمة ، ليس مميز أو جيد كفاية رغم استيعابي له بشيء من المشقة.

ألوم المراجعة ومكتبة جرير التي عودتنا على التراجم السيئة ولربما الكاتب أيضاً.

عالعموم فحوى الكتاب في الفصل الأخير، إستفدت منه اليسير ولكنه حتماً لا يستحق قيمته المالية.


إقتبست:

"يجب تخطيط برنامج القراءة بعناية كتخطيط الغذاء اليومي، ﻷن المعرفة أيضاً تعد غذاءا لا يمكننا أن ننمو عقليا بدونه."

ده مش واحد من الكتب الفنكوشية عن الثراء، أو النجاح ماليا وأنت نايم ومغطيها.

ده دستور الفلوس، وتقريبا فيه كل حاجة، من أول سستمة الدماغ، لحد الكوارث اللي بتقف بينك وبين الإزدهار.

كل سطر باين فيه المجهود وسنوات خبرة طويلة، والكتاب ينضح بالذكاء والحكمة والعملية.

اقرأه بقدر رغبتك في الغِنى، وطبّق ما بداخله بقدر إيمانك.

Napolian Hill, my favorite motivational and self help writer and speaker, studied for twenty years to put together this volume entitled "Think and Grow Rich."
This is a very practical manual wherein he explains a step by step process to attain riches, both of the finantial and spiritual natures.
I believe this is a must read for all especially for those who are entrapreneureal minded and not afraid to think for themselves.
Enjoy and Be Blessed.
Diamond

Profound.

A classic self-help book, even a few would arguably say this must be treated as text books and everyone should read it. I definitely did agree with lots of ideas mentioned in it, but I suppose I was expecting more since a lot of people were singing praises of it. Overall it wasn't bad But I just needed more or perhaps the book was pretty good for its time and I'm just being too critical here.