Think and Grow Rich:

Melvin Powers Wilshire Book Company, (Published 1937)

Written By Napoleon Hill

United States of America

REVIEW 5 Stars – LIFE CHANGING!

How the blurb describes the book:

Are you too busy working to spare any time for thinking? ... Then you’re two busy earning a living to make any money... until now!

Because the curious thing is, people who really make money – lots and lots of it – don’t work hard. Once they’ve set the ball rolling, wealth simply accumulates upon wealth.

The secret lies in moving that ball.

It’s a secret Napoleon Hill discovered when he interviewed 504 of America’s richest men – and its secret is so simple anyone, but anyone, can use it to become fabulously wealthy.

That secret is here, in the pages of this very book. Reprinted an amazing 42 times since its original publication, and sold out totally each time. It details the precise steps you can take to put yourself on easy street including:

-          Great dreams turn into great riches

-          Desire performs the impossible

-          Twenty eight very personal but revealing questions

-          The magic of “Money Consciousness”

-          You can use more brains than your own

-          There’s no such thing as bad luck

-          Fear is only a state of mind

These things together with the “Secret” formula provide a tried and tested plan that makes men rich. It will make YOU rich too!

Mr Home Budget’s Review:

It’s not every day you get a chance to read a book which was first printed nearly 75 years ago and was started by the author 20 years prior to its first printing. But a book which has sold over 7 million copies and been reprinted 42 times must have something to it? Well this book delivers good advice in spades.

 But don’t let the title fool you, this is not a home budgeting book. Nor will you learn how to save money at the supermarket; or how to start a property portfolio.

The author Napoleon Hill gets you to question what you are doing day to day. While he never says it anywhere in the book, he hints you might be walking in the wrong direction for success.

This book should know, because everyone who contributed to this book was not just successful, but extremely successful. For example, just two of the many contributers are Henry Ford (who founded the Ford motor company) and Thomas Edison (who invented the Light Bulb).

The book gets you to focus and build strengths including training your subconscious mind, teamwork, creative vision and how to stop and recognise failure. The book is humorous and uplifting. You can’t help thinking about your future.

One thing the book proves through stories over and over again, is successful people didn’t just get there overnight. They were not just born under a lucky star! It took years and years of failures to hit on the one true idea which helped them achieve their ultimate success.

There were many paragraphs I could point to as being good ones to read, however, this one stuck in my mind. “Before success comes in any man’s life, he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps, some failure. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thinking is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do.”

And this one also caught my eye, “We have in this country what is said to be the greatest public school system in the world. One of the strange things about human beings is that they value only that which has a price. The free schools of America, and the free public libraries, do not impress people because they are free.”

“Ten Trillion tiny servants – every cell in your brain – form patterns of thought, imagination and will. Your mind can gather in any amount of moneymaking knowledge.”

There are very few books which we give 5 out of 5 stars. In fact, as I write this, there has only been one other. In my mind, to give full marks to a book, it must be life changing. This book is LIFE CHANGING. As you are on my website, I will make the assumption you want help retaining and making more money. This book will get your brain thinking, not just along those lines but like a rhino stampeding towards this goal.

My only advice is to read this book. Buy it now!

Pros: The book is a real dive into history’s great leaders.

You can really see why it has sold so many copies. Very uplifting.

If you can’t reach for your budgeting goals after reading this book, then you have little hope.

Cons: As it was written such a long time ago, some words can be lost in translation.