If you have not already read Think and Grow Rich, then I want to encourage you to do so. It was the result of a lifework on the principles of success and it really does contain everything you need to know about how to get rich.

When I first read the book, I remember putting it down and thinking to myself … ‘now what exactly is this secret he keeps talking about?’. It turns out to be a not uncommon experience. Despite the fact that in every chapter of the book, mention has apparently been made of the ‘money making secret that has made fortunes for more than five hundred exceedingly wealthy men’, many people have reported great difficulty in actually locating the secret.

In a recent movie – The Secret – the underlying scientific thinking is thoroughly explored. Hype, concerning the movie, The Secret, is all over the internet at present; and, there is no question about it, it’s a good movie too! It will do you absolutely no harm to watch it. But – let’s be quite direct here – many people who have also watched The Secret movie still just don’t get-it! The reason, I think, is that the focus of the movie is the business of convincing people that there is a secret and that it can be trusted to work.

Napoleon Hill says that in order to receive the secret, you have to be ready to receive it; and that’s why he doesn’t give it out overtly. Rather, he allows the reader to discover it when he, or she, is ready to receive it – it is more powerful that way, he says. Well if that is the case how come we have written this little book that plainly and openly reveals the secret to anyone who wants to understand it?

Contents

Preparing the ground
What exectly is the secret?
My own story
Now I have moved on
Finally
The 7 keys to success