Finance Book

1. THINK AND GROW RICH – NAPOLEON HILL This book has single handedly changed my life, I read this from cover to cover then start over again, every time the I learn new and different things as my awareness grows. More millionaires credit this book to being the key to their success, than any other book.

2. THE SCIENCE OF GETTING RICH – WALLACE. D. WATTLES This book is based on the same philosophy as THINK AND GROW RICH, just explains things differently and it explains that getting rich is a science, and as a science, when you follow simple laws, you get the same results every time.

3. THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE – STEPHEN R. COVEY This book is a great way to raise awareness of how we think, and how we need to think to become more fulfilled and successful, this book also gives us some very good perception, and explains why we must shift our thinking.

4. RICH DAD POOR DAD – ROBERT. T. KIYOSAKI – This is a great book for all ages, in fact it was the first book I ever read in relation to money. This explains how rich people think and act, and also shows how the middle class and poor act and why they never get ahead.

5. THE ONE MINUTE MILLIONAIRE – MARK VICTOR HANSEN This is a great book to have if you only have a few minutes spare during each day, this has some amazing stories inside stories and is fantastic to read.

6. THE RICHEST MAN IN BABYLON – GEORGE S. CLASON This is a brilliant story about a man from Babylon who through organized and precise planning, become the richest man in his town, with just purely smart ideas on how to grow the income you already have.

7. ACRES OF DIAMONDS – DR. RUSSELL H. CONWELL This is a awesome short story of a guy giving up, right before he reached success. And how the lesson came around again, but due to previous failure, he too succeeded in the end.

These 7 Books must be read, and then Studied. They must be studied as a text book, rather than just something to read, and then acted upon accordingly!

By: Ryan Martin

In 1908, Napoleon Hill met Andrew Carnegie, one of the wealthiest men of his time. At their first meeting, Mr. Carnegie told Napoleon how he attained wealth, in a quiet unassuming way to see if Napoleon Hill would grasp the meaning and significance of what was being given to him. Hill comprehended immediately. This began a long friendship and collaboration between the two men.

Eventually, Andrew Carnegie asked Hill if he would be willing to compile the world’s first philosophy of achievement by writing a book about how the world’s wealthiest people achieved their riches. Andrew Carnegie wanted this information available to every person willing to take on the task of learning and becoming wealthy. Napoleon Hill’s consent began his 25-year odyssey as he interviewed over 500 famous self-made millionaires to write Think and Grow Rich. First published in 1937, Think and Grow Rich has sold over 60 million copies and is still in print. It is considered “the standard against which all other motivational books are measured.”

Think and Grow Rich consists of Thirteen Steps to Financial Success. Each step thoroughly explained using examples, testimonials and lessons. This is not a read and think about it book. It is a read, study, do the lessons, visualize and realize actual physical results book. As Napoleon states in Step 1:

“Desire is the turning point of all achievement. It is the first step toward riches. Intensify Desire daily and remain ready until Desire is fulfilled.”

In Step 6, Hill explains that:

“Organized planning is the crystallization of Desire into Action.”

Step 10 instructs on the “Mystery of Sex Transmutation.” Here, Hill discusses how the energy and power behind a strong sexual drive can be the same impetus in its positive stage that causes men to reach great heights of success personally and financially. But, used negatively can destroy man’s drive to create and achieve.

Chapter 2 contains a self-confidence formula and 30-minute lesson following these guidelines:

“Faith is the starting point of all accumulation of riches.

“Temporary Defeat is not Permanent Failure.” And that a

“Lack of Persistence is one of the major causes of failure. Lack of Persistence is a weakness, which may be overcome by effort. It depends solely upon the intensity of one’s desire. With Persistence You Will Win.”

Later Hill determines that:

“Power is essential for success.”

Not political power or the power of authority. All lessons in Think and Grow Rich return one to the inner person and the power and ability within.

“Plans are useless and inert without power to translate them into action.”

So what is real power? “Power is organized and intelligently directed knowledge.” Or, stated in the reverse: “Knowledge organized into Definite Plans expressed through action = Power.”

What benefit might there be from reading Think and Grow Rich or any other self-help, motivational material? One answer might be as Napoleon Hill points out:

“Poverty needs no plan. It needs no one to aid it, because it is bold and ruthless. Riches are shy and timid. They have to be ‘attracted.’”

As a post script:
In 1991, Dennis Kimbro posthumously published,
Think and Grow Rich, a Black Choice.

By: Penda Benson