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ii Think and Grow Rich: Real Estate Edition Napoleon Hill THINK AND GROW RICH Real Estate Edition Real Estate Action Steps and Treasure Map By Tim & Julie Harris Edited by A. B. Guitry Tim & Julie Harris® Real Estate Coaching http://timandjulieharris.com Published 1938 The Ralston Society, Meriden, Conn. Copyright© 1937 by Napoleon Hill This book is a reproduction of the complete and original 1937 version of Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, originally published by The Ralston Society and now in the public domain. This edition published with an original cover design by Zizi Iryaspraha S. with original foreword and additional Real Estate materials by Tim & Julie Harris. This edition is neither sponsored nor endorsed by, or otherwise affiliated with, the Napoleon Hill Foundation, The Ralston Society, or any other person or entity. iv Think and Grow Rich: Real Estate Edition TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword vi Author’s Preface x Introduction 1 Desire: The Starting Point of All Achievement 21 Faith Visualization of, and Belief in Attainment of Desire 47 Auto-Suggestion: The Medium for Influencing the Subconscious Mind 73 Specialized Knowledge, Personal Experience or Observations 83 Imagination: The Workshop of the Mind 103 Organized Planning: The Crystallization of Desire into Action 123 Decision: The Mastery of Procrastination 173 Persistence: The Sustained Effort Necessary to Induce Faith 189 Power of the Master Mind: The Driving Force 211 The Mystery of Sex Transmutation 221 The Subconscious Mind: The Connecting Link 247 The Brain: A Broadcasting and Receiving Station for Thought 257 The Sixth Sense: The Door to the Temple of Wisdom 265 How to Outwit the Six Ghosts of Fear 281 REAL ESTATE TREASURE MAP 324 Tim & Julie Harris® Real Estate Coaching http://timandjulieharris.com vi Think and Grow Rich: Real Estate Edition Foreword What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Napoleon Hill WARNING: This book is not for everyone. Reading the contents of this book will cause an immediate erosion of the faulty, life-limiting, dream-killing thinking that has caused so many people to needlessly live a life of despair and in a constant state of ‘good enough.’ Is this book for you? It might not be. Frankly, you may not be ready. You must answer these five simple questions with a powerful YES: 1) Are you finally ready to do whatever it takes (legally, morally, and ethically) to become truly rich? Note: Rich is defined by your money is working for YOU and you no longer have to work for your money. 2) Have you been searching for someone to take you by the hand and show you the exact path to achieve your life’s desires? 3) Can you open your mind to new ways of thinking about creating a financial fortune that will result in everything your heart can desire? 4) Can you set aside your preconceived notions about ‘Rich People?’ In a time when ‘Rich Bashing’ is trendy, can you focus on what you are about to read and internalize Hill’s powerful, life-affirming, money making secrets? Tim & Julie Harris® Real Estate Coaching http://timandjulieharris.com 5) Are you an individual or small business owner (Real Estate Professional) searching for an exacting, step-by-step plan to accelerate your financial fortunes? Note: Included in this special Real Estate Edition is the exclusive HARRIS REAL ESTATE UNIVERSITY Treasure Map - Real Estate Business Plan. Did you answer YES to ALL of these questions? If so, read on. You are about to begin a journey that will forever change your life. Think and Grow Rich, is one of the best-selling books of all time. There have been millions of millionaires (and billionaires) who have earned their vast fortunes as a direct result of reading Think and Grow Rich, more than any other book ever published. This book has been a staple of any successful person’s bookshelf for decades. Originally, this book was published during the Great Depression. This is perhaps a not so irrelevant fact when you consider that we are in the midst of what historians are now calling The Great Recession. At the time of Hill’s death in 1970, Think and Grow Rich had sold more than 70 million copies. It remains the biggest seller of Napoleon Hill’s books - a perennial best seller after 80-plus years. Why be rich? A recent survey from Spectrem Group has shown that people who have achieved a level of worth of $5 million or greater are more likely to experience a higher degree of happiness in at least three of the most important elements in their lives – their social life, relationships, and their work. More than 70% of penta-millionaires reported being very satisfied in their relationships (including their relationships with their children), compared with only 45% of those who are merely affluent. This greater sense of satisfaction is particularly true when referring to multimillionaires with regard to their jobs and their social lives, areas in which the Spectrem study found that they are more than twice as satisfied than those worth $100,000 or less. viii Think and Grow Rich: Real Estate Edition Free your mind of the limiting beliefs that have been holding you back. In this landmark timeless book, Napoleon Hill takes the reader on a journey of self-discovery to the very core of what it takes to become truly rich. Finally revealed are all of the closely guarded secrets of history’s richest people. Throughout this book you will learn exactly what to do now to finally become - RICH. Think and Grow Rich will give you the principles that formed what Hill referred to as, the “philosophy of personal achievement.” As an added bonus, Tim and Julie Harris, founders of HARRIS REAL ESTATE UNIVERSITY, have included your precise, step-by-step guide. At the end of each chapter you will know how to apply Hill’s teachings to your business. You will learn how to conquer many common fears, such as: Poverty, Ill Health, Criticism, Loss of Love and Death. Think and Grow Rich is indispensable reading for personal achievement. During the past twenty-five years I have been blessed with more good fortune than any individual deserves but I shudder to think where I’d be today, or what I’d be doing if I had not been exposed to Napoleon Hill’s philosophy. It changed my life. Og Mandino, Author and Lecturer If you have ever wondered what it would be like to be in the right place at the right time, you are about to find out. You ARE in the RIGHT PLACE and NOW is YOUR Time. Tim & Julie Harris® Real Estate Coaching http://timandjulieharris.com x Think and Grow Rich: Real Estate Edition Author’s Preface IN EVERY chapter of this book, mention has been made of the money-making secret that has made fortunes for more than five hundred exceedingly wealthy men whom I have carefully analyzed over a long period of years. The secret was brought to my attention by Andrew Carnegie, more than a quarter of a century ago. The canny, lovable old Scotsman carelessly tossed it into my mind, when I was but a boy. He sat back in his chair, with a merry twinkle in his eyes, and watched carefully to see if I had brains enough to understand the full significance of what he had said to me. When he saw that I had grasped the idea, he asked if I would be willing to spend twenty years or more, preparing myself to take it to the world, to men and women who, without the secret, might go through life as failures. I said I would, and with Mr. Carnegie’s cooperation, I have kept my promise. This book contains the secret, after having been put to a practical test by thousands of people in almost every walk of life. It was Mr. Carnegie’s idea that the magic formula, which gave him a stupendous fortune, ought to be placed within reach of people who do not have time to investigate how men make money, and it was his hope that I might test and demonstrate the soundness of the formula through the experience of men and women in every calling. He believed the formula should be taught in all public schools and colleges, and expressed the opinion that if it were properly taught it would so revolutionize the entire educational system that the time spent in school could be reduced to less than half. His experience with Charles M. Schwab, and other young men of Mr. Schwab’s type, convinced Mr. Carnegie that much of that which is taught in the schools is of no value whatsoever in Tim & Julie Harris® Real Estate Coaching http://timandjulieharris.com connection with the business of earning a living or accumulating riches. He had arrived at this decision, because he had taken into his business one young man after another, many of them with but little schooling, and by coaching them in the use of this formula, developed in them rare leadership. Moreover, his coaching made fortunes for everyone of them who followed his instructions. In the chapter on Faith, you will read the astounding story of the organization of the giant United States Steel Corporation, as it was conceived and carried out by one of the young men through whom Mr. Carnegie proved that his formula will work for all who are ready for it. This single application of the secret, by that young man – Charles M. Schwab – made him a huge fortune in both money and OPPORTUNITY.