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 Procrastination1
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 anddishonest politicians have prostituted the honor for which such men asAdams 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.”
2 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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