Napoleon Hill - Success Through A Positive Mental Attitude

THE POWERS OF THE MIND
YOUR MIND
ARE UNLIMITED!

Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude shows you how to use PMA to rid your mind of cobwebshow to set your sights on a goal and attain it through persistent thinking and positive action.

In simple, straightforward language, the authors present five self-motivators that provide a springboard to success six steps to cheerfulness, a vital factor in human relationships and three ways to rid yourself of guilt, a common barrier to success.

Start now on your way to success in business and in your social life. Read what others have done and how they have done it, and remember that you can do it, too!

SUCCESS THROUGH A POSITIVE
MENTAL ATTITUDE

. changed my life from that of an also-ran to a front-runner. If you want to be an enduring winner, read it once a year. I do, and I learn something new from it each time.

Denis Waitley, author of Seeds of Greatness
and Psychology of Winning

SUCCESS THROUGH A POSITIVE
MENTAL ATTITUDE

. is one of the ten books that has most impacted on my faith and my philosophy. It is a premier book, a classic book no persons education is complete without the concepts articulated in it so wisely and so well.

Rev. Robert H. Schuller

Napoleon Hill

AND W. Clement Stone

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION
BY W. CLEMENT STONE

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This book is dedicated to
ANDREW CARNEGIE
Whose motto was
Anything in life worth having
is worth working for!
and to
THE MOST IMPORTANT LIVING PERSON

The great Danish philosopher and religious thinker, Sren Kierkegaard, once wrote, It is the sign of a good book when the book reads you.

You hold in your hands such a bookone that has not only become a classic in the self-help field, but also has that rare ability to relate to your problems, sympathize with them, and then advise you on their solutions as a wise old friend would.

Still, I must warn you.

Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude will do nothing for you. If you truly wish to change your life for the better, and are willing to pay a price in time and thinking and effort to reach your goalsand if youre not kidding yourselfthen you hold in your hands a diamond plucked from a beach of pebbles, a road map to a better future, a valuable blueprint that will enable you to completely restructure your future.

I speak from experience. Many years ago, through my own stupidities and faults, I lost everything that was precious to memy family, my home, and my job. Nearly penniless, and with no guidance, I began to wander the country, searching for myself and for some answers that would make my life bearable.

I spent much time in public libraries because they were freeand warm. I read everything from Plato to Peale, seeking that one message that would explain to me where I had gone wrongand what I could do to salvage the remainder of my life.

I finally found my answer in W. Clement Stones and Napoleon Hills Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude. I have employed the simple techniques and methods found in this classic for more than fifteen years, and they have provided me with riches and happiness far beyond anything I deserve. From a penniless vagrant without a single root I eventually became the president of two corporations and the executive editor of the finest magazine of its kind in the world, Success Unlimited. I also wrote six books, and one of them, The Greatest Salesman in the World, has now become the best-selling book for salespeople of all time; it has been translated into fourteen languages and has sold more than three million copies.

None of these things would have been accomplished without the daily application of the principles of success and living that I found in Stones and Hills classic. If I could accomplish what I did starting from ground zero, just think what you can do with all you have going for you already.

We live in a strange and fast-moving world; each day a new false prophet arises preaching his own brand of happiness and success attainment. Like hula hoops and pet rocks they will all disappear as quickly as they appeared, and when the fog lifts, the truth of Stones and Hills book will still be changing the lives of thousands yet unborn.

Do you really want to change your life for the better?

If you do, Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude can be the luckiest thing that has ever happened to you. Read it. Study it. Read it again. Then get into action. Its all very simple, really, if you make up your mind to work at it.

And wonderful things will begin happening to you.

I should know.

OG MANDINO

PART I
Where the Road to
Achievement Begins

PART II
Five Mental Bombshells for Attacking Success

PART III
Your Key to the Citadel of Wealth

PART IV
Get Ready to Succeed!

PART V
Action Please!

The greatest secret of success is: theres no secret.

That has been discovered by hundreds of thousands of men and women who have read this book in the twenty-five years since it was first published. The formula for successfar from being secret, inaccessible, or difficult to understandis clearly spelled out in the pages that follow.

Like those high achievers who preceded you through the ideas herein, youll find that something wonderful happens to you as a result of your readingif you are ready. You will achieve physical, mental, and moral health; happiness; wealth; or any other worthwhile goal whose attainment does not violate the laws of God or the rights of your fellow man.

Since this edition addresses an entirely new generation of readers, it might be helpful to give some background of the collaboration between the late Dr. Napoleon Hill and me.

Think and grow rich. In 1937, I owned and operated Combined Registry Company, a national sales organization devoted exclusively to accident insurance. Morris Pickus, a well-known sales executive, sales counselor, and lecturer, gave me a book that had just been published titled Think and Grow Rich