THINK AND GROW RICH (CHAPTER SUMMARY) - ARTE - 2025

Today I am going to summarize what I consider to be a great book; Think and get rich, one of the most read in the world and especially by enterprising people. I hope you have already read it, and if not, I encourage you to do so whether you are an entrepreneur or not, a businessman or an employee.

I bought it one day when I was waiting at the Managua airport. It was cheap ($ 10 I think) and I had nothing to do on the flight so I took it with me. I hadn't heard or read it before, so the title sounded like a smoke seller to me.

He thought that it would be based on the fact that simply with the magic of thought, simply by wanting it, one can become rich. However, later I realized that many of his teachings are very valuable and can result in great changes.

What is your central thesis?

One of his central theses is that, for a goal to be achieved, you have to desire it very strongly, although it also emphasizes the need to make a commitment, to act and to persevere despite failures.

Like How to Make Friends and Influence Others, it is a classic read by millions of people and of great value.

To write the book, its author, Napoleon Hill, investigated and analyzed the "signs of success" of some of the richest people of his time such as: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ford, Theodore Roosevelt, Elbert Hubbard, Thomas A. Edison, Graham Bell, Edwin C. Barnes and many more.

The main idea is that from the secret of the great rich is how anyone can get to have the same wealth. Who knows if the author of the million times sold The Secret was inspired by Napoleon Hill.

It certainly seems like it, although the book to which I am dedicated today has nothing to do with it and I assure you that they will teach you much more than anyone who is left alone in that the magic of thought will make you have what you want.

I start with the summary. I will present you the most important ideas that you can take, although I advise you to read the book at least once. In addition, if you are an entrepreneur, it will surely be very simple and pleasant.

What do you think of the book? Have their teachings served you? Comment, I'm interested!

Thoughts are things

Thoughts are things when combined with accuracy of purpose, perspective, and a compelling desire to turn them into wealth, or other material objects.

An intangible impulse can be transmuted into material gains through the application of known principles.

The answer that you may be looking for to the questions that have made you reflect on the mysteries of life, you can find in yourself, through some idea, plan or purpose that may arise in your brain.

You will notice that wealth begins from a state of mind, with a definite purpose.

One of the greatest weaknesses of the human species is the typical familiarity of man with the word impossible.

Our brain is magnetized with the dominant thoughts that we carry in the mind, and that, by mechanisms that no one knows well, these magnets attract towards us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life that harmonize with the nature of our dominant thoughts.

Before we can accumulate wealth in abundance, we have to magnetize our mind with an intense desire for wealth, we must become aware of wealth until the desire for money leads us to make definite plans to acquire it.

The desire. The starting point of all achievement

Every person who wins in any endeavor must be willing to burn down their ships and eliminate all possibilities of turning back. Only then can you be assured of maintaining that state of mind known as the burning desire to win, essential to success.

Every human being who reaches the age of understanding the raison d'être of money wants money. Wanting it is not enough to accumulate wealth. But desiring wealth with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, and then planning definite ways and means of acquiring it, and executing those plans with a perseverance that does not accept failure, will attract wealth.

Method to convert desire into its monetary equivalent:

• Determine the exact amount of money you want.
• Determine what you propose to give in return.
• Establish a plan.
• Write a statement with: amount of money to get, time limit, what you will give in return and description of the plan.
• Read the statement twice a day.

One must realize that all those who have accumulated great fortunes have first dreamed, desired, yearned for, thought, and planned before acquiring money.

There is one quality one must possess to win, and that is the definition of purpose, the exact knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it. Realize your dreams and ignore what others may say if you run into difficulties at any time.

The state of mind must be conviction, and not mere hope or longing. An open mind is essential to believe.

Faith

The emotions of faith and love are the most powerful among the main positive emotions. It is essential that you stimulate your positive emotions as the dominant forces in your mind, and downplay and eliminate negative emotions.

Life's battles don't always favor the strongest or fastest man, but sooner or later the man who thinks he can.

Wealth starts from an idea, the quantity is limited only by the person in whose mind that idea is set in motion. Faith removes those limitations.

Autosuggestion

Through the dominant thoughts that one allows to remain in the conscious mind, the principle of autosuggestion voluntarily reaches the subconscious and influences those thoughts through it.

Indifferent words, recited without emotion, do not influence the subconscious. You will not get appreciable results until you learn to reach your subconscious with thoughts or spoken words that have been charged with the emotion of conviction.

In visualizing the money you intend to accumulate, see yourself providing the service, or providing the merchandise you intend to give in exchange for your money.

The transmutation of desire into money entails the use of autosuggestion as an agent through which one can reach out to and influence the unconscious.

Specialized knowledge

Knowledge will not attract money, unless it is organized and intelligently directed by practical plans of action, for the precise purpose of accumulating money.

An educated man is not someone who has an abundance of general or specialized knowledge. An educated man is one who has cultivated the faculties of his mind in such a way that he can acquire whatever he proposes without violating the rights of others.

The accumulation of great fortunes requires power, and this is acquired through specialized knowledge, intelligently directed and organized, but that knowledge does not have to be in the possession of the person who accumulates wealth.

Capacity involves imagination, a quality necessary to combine specialized knowledge with ideas in the form of organized plans, designed to achieve wealth.

The imagination

Imagination is the workshop where all the plans created by man are embodied. Impulse, desire, are given shape, profile, and action by the help of the imaginative faculty of the mind.

Ideas are the starting point of all fortunes. Ideas are products of the imagination.

Wealth, when it appears in large quantities, is never just the result of hard work. When it appears, wealth is the result of definite demands, based on the application of definite plans, and is never due to luck or chance.

Organized planning

If the first plan you adopt doesn't work out successfully, replace it with a new one; If this new plan doesn't work either, switch back to another one, and so on until you find a plan that works.

A temporary failure is not the same as a permanent failure. A failure indicates only that the plans were not good. Make others.

You have to know your own weaknesses in order to overcome or eliminate them completely. You have to know her strength in order to draw attention to her when selling her services.

Without a brain to control it, money is always dangerous. If used in the proper way, it is the most important essential element of civilization.

There is only one sure method of accumulating wealth and holding onto it, and that method is to render useful services and keep creating fictitious needs.

Decision

People who fail to accumulate money have, without exception, the habit of making decisions, if at all, very slowly, and of changing those same decisions quickly and often.

If you allow yourself to be swayed by opinions when it comes to making decisions, you will not be successful in any endeavor, much less in turning your own desire into money.

Those who make decisions quickly and in a definitive way know very well what they want, in general they get it.

Perseverance

Perseverance is an essential factor in the process of transforming desire into its monetary equivalent. The foundation of perseverance is willpower.

They are the people whose wishes are applied in a persistent way, whose defeat ends up turning into victory.

People refuse to take risks in business because they fear the criticism they would receive if they failed. In such cases, the fear of criticism is much stronger than the desire to succeed.

The only chance that can be trusted is one that one has managed to carve out for oneself. And that is something that is achieved through the application of perseverance.

The power of teamwork

No individual will have great power without having the team at his disposal. Anyone can gain financial advantage by surrounding themselves with the advice, advice and cooperation of a group of people willing to give them honest help, in a spirit of perfect harmony.

The mystery of transmutation

Sexual desire is the most powerful of human desires. When men are propelled by it, they develop acuity of imagination, courage, willpower, perseverance, and creative ability unknown to them at other times.

Men who have accumulated great fortunes and achieved outstanding recognition in literature, art, industry, architecture, and the professions, were motivated by the influence of a woman.

Sexuality is the creative energy of all geniuses. There has never been, and never will be, a great leader, builder or artist who lacks that driving force of sex.

The subconscious

Anyone can desire wealth, and most people desire it, but only a few know that the only reliable means of accumulating wealth is through a definite plan, in addition to a burning desire to achieve wealth.

The subconscious is more susceptible to being influenced by thought impulses when they are mixed with a feeling or emotion than when they originate only in the reasoning part of the mind.

Our responsibility is to ensure that positive emotions are the dominant influence on our minds. Get in the habit of applying and using negative emotions.

Brain

Men sometimes speak lightly of the intangible, of things that they cannot perceive through any of their five senses, and when we hear them speak, we must remember that all of us are controlled by forces that are invisible and intangible.

When the brain works at a fast speed, it not only attracts thoughts and ideas emitted by other brains, but provides the thoughts themselves with that same feeling, which is essential for the subconscious to pick up on the thoughts and act on them.

The sixth Sense

Understanding what the sixth sense is is only achieved through meditation and mental development from within. With their help, you will be warned of imminent danger in plenty of time to avoid it, and opportunities will be notified well in advance to take advantage of them.

The six ghosts of fear

There are six basic fears, from which every human being suffers at one time or another, either for each one of them or in a combination of them: poverty, criticism, illness, loss of love, to old age, to death.

Fears are nothing more than states of mind. The state of mind of which it is subject to control and direction.

Mind control is the result of self-discipline and habit. Either you control your mind, or it controls you. The most practical method of all for controlling one's mind is the habit of keeping it occupied with a definite purpose, supported by a definite plan.