Think and Grow Rich

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Think and Grow Rich! (ISBN 1-59330-200-2) is a motivational book. Written by Napoleon Hill and inspired by a suggestion by Andrew Carnegie, it was published in 1937 at the end of the Great Depression. It was the biggest seller of Napoleon Hill's books, selling a claimed 20 million copies over the next 50 years (although Alice Payne Hackett's 70 Years of Best Sellers suggests the figure was considerably lower).[1]

In 2004, Ross Cornwell published Think and Grow Rich!: The Original Version, Restored and Revised (Second Printing 2007), which restored the book to its original content, with slight revisions, and added the first comprehensive endnotes, index, and appendix the book had ever contained.[2]

Contents

[edit] Influence

Think and Grow Rich is often cited as an influence on Werner Erhard and Erhard Seminars Training.[3][4]

It has also been referred to as an influence in the documentary on hardcore punk American hardcore, by H.R; the singer of Bad brains.This book inspired them to write the song Attitude.He also mentions he referred fellow hardcore band The teen idles to it, the rest of the members in Bad brains refers to it as a Flow of positive energy.

Since its original publication it has shown up on bestseller lists of business books as recently as 2007 in BusinessWeek magazine.[5]

[edit] Editions

  • Think and Grow Rich (ISBN 1-59330-200-2)
  • Hill, N., Think and Grow Rich; Teaching, for the First Time, the famous Andrew Carnegie Formula for Money-Making, Based upon the Thirteen Proven Steps to Riches, The Ralston Society, (Meriden), 1937.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Lingeman, Richard, "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People". The New York Times, August 13, 1995. Accessed April 28, 2008.
  2. ^ Hill, N. and Cornwell, R.: "Think and Grow Rich!: The Original Version, Restored and Revised", page xi. Aventine Press, 2004
  3. ^ Bartley, W.W. III, Werner Erhard: The Transformation of a Man, The Founding of est. 1978, Clarkson Potter.
  4. ^ Carroll, Robert Todd, The Skeptics Dictionary. Accessed April 29, 2008.
  5. ^ "The BusinessWeek Best-Seller List", BusinessWeek, June 4, 2007. Accessed April 29, 2008.

[edit] Further reading

  • A Lifetime of Riches: The Biography of Napoleon Hill, Michael J. Ritt and Kirk Landers (Revised Edition 1995) (ISBN 0-525-94146-0)