Just wondering.

Never even heard of it.

I read that in the early seventies. plus numerous similar books when I was younger & obsessed with someday becoming a millionaire!

Also took all of the Dale Carnegie Course (Public Speaking, Sales Training, Management) and read all his stuff.

Recently read The Secret...

Nowadays I'm more interested in reading about figuring out how to try and be a person I like & can be proud off -- vs. chasing the big bucks... But I think that
comes with age.

Napoleon Hills book was THE get rich advice book years ago...

It's all good though. What i liked about Carnegies teachings were, that he basically taught that the Golden Rules are the real deal, and you can't get ahead by being dishonest or uncool to people.

His books, "How to Stop Worrying and Start Living" & How to Win Friends and Influence People" while very simple and very psych 101 --- are still very powerful reads. I was 19 when I took the courses, and it really gave me the confidence to become a self made business guy.

Once every decade or so, when I feel like I am back-sliding, I'll crack open those books for a refreshers. jmo.

"This time next year Rodney, we'll be millionaires."

Is becoming a millionaire bad?

No. But I doubt it can be done by reading a book.

"Wishful Thinking"

is really

"Wishful" minus the "Thinking" part.

davidcasemore you should know since your income is right up there with the people that Hill interviewed. Have you read the book? Sorry you probably haven't too many big words and not enough pretty pictures!

Think and grow rich...

Is the book about having positive thoughts = becoming wealthy?

On one hand.. im a firm beleiver that if your positive and happy.. positive and happy surrounds you. But on the other hand.. have you heard of the old saying.. "wish in one hand.... #$%@ in the other.. see which one fills up first".

:)

Yeah he didn't interview anyone with the business acumen of davidcasemore. The people that he interviewed and consolidated what they had/thought that made them successful were minor players e.g.:

Thomas Edison
Alexander Graham Bell
George Eastman
Henry Ford
Elmer Gates
John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
Charles M. Schwab
F.W. Woolworth
William Wrigley Jr.
John Wanamaker
William Jennings Bryan
Joseph Stalin
Theodore Roosevelt
William H. Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Charles Allen Ward
Jennings Randolph

None of these people were even close to being on the same level as davidcasemore.

Methinks Putin must have read it or, at least, he's dealing with his critics in a similar fashion.

Great minds, maybe. Great people is an entirely different question.

Success does always go only to the good. But there are great people on that list. The concepts that are taught like anything can be used for good or evil but they still apply.

Ergo that exemplar of humanism, Robert Mugabe, could be considered great. After all there can't be many people that have, quite literally, single handedly ruined a country.

But Mugabe isn't a success. At the time the book was written no one knew what Stalin was going to turn into. He - Hill - was of the belief that anyone that was out for themselves at the expense of others was a detriment and could not reach their potential. He applied that to the heads of industry to the people that worked for them. He was not Machiavellian in his beliefs but very altruistic. From the people that he talked to he came to the conclusion that anyone could be a success. Many of the people on that list started with nothing. Fascinating stuff considering that it was written right after the Great Depression and his research took 20 years some some of it was done during the height of the Depression. He has many examples of people succeeding during the Depression.

BUSH did!

And if history repeats itself so will Obama. The countries economy is in a shambles per Obama so what does he do submit the largest budget ever. Obama has started he thought police and is trying to pass legislation that all doctor regardless of their beliefs will preform abortion or give references - EVEN IF ABORTIONS IS AGAINST THEIR BELIEFS. MR. Stanley you had Bush so much that to you anyone is better regardless of what the country will be like when their administrations over. Obama is going to cost this country untold amounts of money because to the foolish belief that man made CO2 effects the atmosphere. And he has only been in office a little over 5 weeks.