Top 30 Valuable Lessons from Think and Grow Rich 

by Napoleon Hill

A great number of us wish for wealth and financial independence but wishing alone isn’t going to help us achieve our goals. If we want to get rich and realize our dreams, we need to recognize a burning desire within us.

For instance, even after more than 10,000 failed experiments, Thomas Edison could not be shaken from his goal of inventing an electric light source. He was – plain and simple – driven by the desire to make his dream come true. And, after years of hard work, he did just that when he invented the light bulb

So it’s essential for those of us who want to be successful to examine our attitude towards setting our goals and dreams.

Here are the Top 30 Valuable Lessons from the Book Think and Grow Rich

1. Failure to recognize and to clearly define exactly what one wants.

2. People refuse to take chances in business because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail

3. Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes. Ideas are products of the imagination.

4. There is no standard price on ideas. The creator of ideas makes his price, and, if he is smart, gets it. 

5. when your plans fail, that temporary defeat is not permanent failure. It may only mean that your plans have not been sound. Build other plans. Start all over again. 

6. The "depression" was a blessing in disguise. It reduced the whole world to a new starting point that gives everyone a new opportunity. 

7. Faith is a state of mind, and that it may be induced by self-suggestion." 

8. The habit of compromising with POVERTY instead of aiming at riches. The general absence of ambition to be, to do, and to own.

9. People refuse to take chances in business because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail

10. Knowledge may be acquired from any of the foregoing sources. It may be converted into POWER by organizing it into definite PLANS and by expressing those plans in terms of ACTION.

11. when one is truly ready for a thing, it puts in its appearance." 

12. One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting 

13. More gold has been mined from the brains of men than has ever been taken from the earth

14. There is no such thing as Something For Nothing

15. ALL ACHIEVEMENT, ALL EARNED RICHES, HAVE THEIR BEGINNING IN AN IDEA

16. Success comes to those who become Success Conscious

17. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become Failure Conscious. 

18. YOU ARE "THE MASTER OF YOUR FATE, THE CAPTAIN OF YOUR SOUL

19. SUCCESS REQUIRES NO APOLOGIES, FAILURE PERMITS NO ALIBIS."

20. The greatest achievement was, at first, and for a time, but a dream.

21. Dreams are the Seedlings of reality.

22. A burning desire to be and to do is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off.

23. Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition. 

24. No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality. 

25. No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it.

26. EVERY ADVERSITY BRINGS WITH IT THE SEED OF AN EQUIVALENT ADVANTAGE, 

27. Never is a long time!

28. Believe in the power of Desire backed by Faith

29. Repetition of affirmation of orders to your subconscious mind is the only known method of voluntary development of the emotion of faith.

30. Remember this when you are ready to bargain with Life for whatever it is that you ask as your price for having passed this way.