- He wrote the book Think and Grow Rich.

- He's Napoleon Hill and here are his top ten rules for

success.

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- A definite purpose must be accompanied by a definite

plan for detainment, followed by appropriate action,

now you have to have a purpose, you have to have a

plan, and you have to start putting that plan into action.

And ladies and gentlemen, it's not too important that

your plan be sound.

It is in fact, it's not too important because if you find

that you've adopted a plan that is not sound, it's

not working you can always change.

You can modify your plan, but it is very important that

you be definite about what it is you're going after,

what your purpose is, that must be very definite.

Learn to adjust yourself to other people's state of

mind and difficulties so as to get along peacefully

with them and to refrain from taking notice of trivial

circumstances in your relations with other people by

refusing to allow them to become controversial

incidents.

Great people always avoid small incidents of controversy

when possible.

If you want the mind to pick up an idea, and to form

a habit so that the mind will automatically act upon

that idea you've got to tell the mind what you want

over and over and over again.

No end to it.

When Mr. Coue came over here some years ago with his

famous formula, day by day in every way I'm getting

better and better, he cured thousands of people

but a very great number than that he didn't cure.

And I wonder if you would know why?

(audience murmuring)

There was no desire, there was no feeling put into that

statement, you might as well just blow into the wind

as to make a statement to let you put some feeling

back of it, unless you believe it.

Well you need a pocket sized notebook, all something

on the order of this one here, looseleaf at that.

And on the page one write down a clear description of

your major desire in life.

The one circumstance or position or thing which you

will be willing to accept as your idea of success.

And remember before you begin writing that your only

limitations are those that you set up in your own

mind or permit others to set up for you.

And two, on page two of your notebook, write down a

clear statement of precisely what you intend to give

in return for that which you desire from life and then

start in right where you stand now to begin giving and

three, memorize both of your statements, what you desire

and what you intend to give in return for it.

And repeat them at least a dozen times daily and always

end your statements with this expression of gratitude

for the blessings with which you were gifted at birth.

Any dominating desire, plan, or purpose which is

backed by that state of mind known as faith, is taken

over by the subconscious section of the mind and acted

upon immediately.

I don't know for sure ladies and gentlemen, but I suspect

that there's a relatively small number of people

in the world at any one time who understand the

principle of faith, who really understand it and know

how to apply it.

And even if you do understand it, if you don't back

it up with action and make it a part of your habit life

you might just as well not understand it because

faith without deeds is dead.

Faith without action is dead, faith without absolute

positive belief is dead.

I don't know how you're going to get any results

through believing unless you put some action back of

that belief.

And incidentally, if you tell your mind often enough that

you have faith in anything, the time will come when your

subconscious mind will accept that, even if you tell

your mind often enough that you have faith in yourself.

Have you ever thought about nice thing would be if

you had such complete faith in yourself that you wouldn't

hesitate to undertake anything you wanted to do in life?

Had you ever thought about that?

What a benefit that would be to you?

Your personality determines whether people are attracted

to you or shy away from you, it is the show in which

you display your character to the world and it is

the one thing which distinguishes you from all other

human beings.

It is your trademark by which people recognize you and

it is the thing which determines your success or failure

in selling yourself through life.

Therefore, you should see your personality just as others

see it, so you may improve it where it needs improvement.

If you would sit down and put an hour by hour of account

of the actual work that you put in each day for one

week and then an hour by hour account of the time

that you waste that you could devote to anything you

want to do badly enough.

You're going to get one of the shocks of your life.

We're not efficient, you know we have about eight hours

to sleep, about eight hours to earn a living, and

have eight hours of free time that you can do anything

that you want to with here in this country where we live.

And then definiteness as a purpose makes one more alert

in recognizing opportunities related to the object of

one's major purpose and it inspires the courage to embrace

and act upon those opportunities.

Now, we all see opportunities almost everyday of our lives

which if we embrace them and acted upon them could benefit

us, but there's something in us that we

call procrastination, we just don't have the will,

the alertness, the determination to embrace opportunities

when they come along.

But if you condition your mind with this philosophy, you'll

not only embrace opportunities, but you'll do something

better, what could you do better than embrace

an opportunity?

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Make the opportunity, that's the idea.

Success is something which has to be planned and

success is something which has to be earned in advance.

True, there is such a thing as luck, but just remember

luck is something that you can create for yourself

if you know the rules and follow them just as I give

them to you.

Remember too that success in the higher brackets of

achievement is something that can be had only by

taking others along with you and the best definition of

success which I know is this, success is the knowledge

with which to get whatever you want from life without

violating the rights of others and by helping others

to acquire it.

The very minute that you decide upon something, you

know that's what you want, you know you're going to do

it, all of these negative that have been bothering

you, they pick up their baggage and get out.

They just move out, they can't live in a positive

mind, can you imagine a negative frame of mind and a

positive frame of mind occupying the same space at

the same time?

Could you imagine that?

No, you can't cuz it can't be done and did you know that

the slightest bit of a negative and mental attitude is

sufficient to destroy the power of prayer?

Did you know that the slightest bit of a negative mental

attitude is sufficient to destroy your plan, whatever

it is you're doing?

Carrying out your definiteness of purpose?

You have to move with courage, with faith, with

determination in connection with carrying out your

definiteness of purpose.

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the

mind can achieve.

Isn't that a profound statement?

You will notice that it says nothing about the need

for education, but simply that whatever your mind can

conceive and believe your mind can achieve.

Now if you want evidence that the mind can achieve

whatever the mind can conceive without the benefit

of formal education, you'll have to remember that

Thomas A. Edison conceived the idea of becoming an

inventor and lived to become the world's greatest

scientist in the field of invention, with only

three months of common school education.

- Thank you so much for watching, I made this video

because Business asked me to, so if there's a

famous entrepreneur that you want me to profile next,

leave it in the comments below and I'll

see what I can do.

I'd also love to know which of Napoleon Hill's top

ten rules you loved the most, leave it in the comments.

We're going to join in the discussion, thank you so much

for watching, continue to believe and I'll see you soon.

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