Think and Grow Rich!



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There is noway b It would be fascinating to hear Napoleon Hill’s comments about the national debt situation facing the United States today.
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It is the point The reference is to mortgage foreclosures, on both residential and commercial properties, resulting from bankruptcy proceedings. The Depression was devastating, to families and businesses. For example, from 1929 to 1932, average per capita

income (net) on family farms in America plunged from $2,297 to an incredible drop of almost 97 percent.
Chapter 7 DECISION The Mastery of Procrastination
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This is important. Napoleon Hill enjoyed getting in the occasional
“dig” at crooks and crooked politicians as shown by the parenthetical remark he tossed in at this point in the original book “(Racketeers and
dishonest politicians have prostituted the honor for which such men as
Adams died).”
Chapter 8 PERSISTENCE The Sustained Effort Necessary to Induce Faith
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WITH PERSISTENCE An attitude is everything conviction characterizes just about every page Napoleon Hill wrote throughout his long career. Marilyn vos Savant, who has one of the highest IQs in the world, agrees. She writes in Ask Marilyn (her widely read column),“While I feel completely confident that normal intellectual capacity is far greater than is necessary for nearly all jobs, I also feel completely confident that nearly all of us reach our limits of motivation, hard work and perseverance far before we reach our limits of intelligence. In other words, our attitudes hold us back more than our aptitudes.”
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The secret of how Fannie Hurst (1889-1968) was a novelist,
dramatist, and screenwriter. By her mid-20s, she had become an established author, writing for and about workingwomen. Several of her works were made into motion pictures, including Back Street and
Imitation of Life, the latter twice, in 1933 and 1959.

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