The Magic Ladder to Success: Original Classic Edition
258The Magic Ladder to Success: Original Classic Edition
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Overview
The Magic Ladder to Success is Napoleon Hill's lost classic and is the book that preceded his all-time bestseller Think and Grow Rich.
With an introduction by the PEN award-winning historian Mitch Horowitz, this primer in wealth building, now in a beautifully designed edition with an easy-to-read font, will put success within your reach!
Napoleon Hill's compact distillation of his lifetime of learning, The Magic Ladder to Success offers seventeen life-changing ideas that make up his most famous "Law of Success" philosophy. These key principles capture the ethics and actions that empower all those who harness them to become leaders in the field of their choice.
As Hill believed, leaders are not born, they are molded by a remarkably similar, simple and dynamic set of habits. Anyone can acquire riches if they truly desire them and use their intelligence to take the necessary actions. Now you, too, can follow his principles.
In this original classic edition of The Magic Ladder to Success, discover:
- Why you must have a singular aim in life
- Why enthusiasm and creativity are so important for achievement
- How to master accurate thinking
- How to create and sustain power
- How to make use of the Golden Rule
"What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve" – Napoleon Hill
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781722523299 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | G&D Media |
| Publication date: | 08/09/2022 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 258 |
| File size: | 2 MB |
About the Author
A widely known voice of esoteric ideas, Mitch Horowitz is a writer-in-residence at the New York Public Library, lecturer-in-residence at the University of Philosophical Research in Los Angeles, and the PEN Award-winning author of books including Occult America; One Simple Idea: How Positive Thinking Reshaped Modern Life; and The Miracle Club: How Thoughts Become Reality. Mitch introduces and edits G&D Media’s line of Condensed Classics and is the author of the Napoleon Hill Success Course series, including The Miracle of a Definite Chief Aim, The Power of the Master Mind, and Secrets of Self-Mastery. Visit him at MitchHorowitz.com. Mitch resides in New York.
Table of Contents
Introduction Mitch Horowitz 13
Author's Introductory Statement 17
Acknowledgment of Help Rendered in the Preparation of the Material That Has Gone into This Book 25
How to Read This Book for Profit 29
The Seventeen Factors of which The Law of Success Is Composed 31
Lesson 1 The Master Mind 35
The eight basic motivating forces which underlie all human action. The relationship between sexual urge and genius. The value of transmutation of sex energy. The ten major sources of mind stimulation. Power-what it is and how to organize and use it. Co-operation- the psychology of co-operative effort. Henry Ford, Thomas A. Edison, and Harvey Firestone-how they acquired power through the Master Mind principle. The big six-how they made the Master Mind principle yield them more than $25,000,000 a year.
How to stimulate the imaginative faculty. Telepathy-how thought vibrations pass from one mind to another, through the agency of the ether. How salesmen and public speakers may "tune in" on the thoughts of their audiences. Vibration-described by Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the long distance telephone.
Air and ether-how they carry vibrations. How and why ideas flash into the mind. Andrew Carnegie responsible for organization of Law of Success. Elbert H. Gary approves the Law of Success philosophy. One million dollars earned by students of Law of Success.
Spiritualism-what it is and how it works. Why some people antagonize others at sight, without knowing it. Why Henry Ford is the most powerful man living.
What we have learned from "Nature's Bible." Chemistry of the mind-how it will make or destroy you. What is meant by the Psychological moment in salesmanship.
The mind becomes devitalized-haw to "recharge" it. The value and meaning of harmony in all co-operative efforts. Of what does Henry Ford's assets consist? The answer.
Education-what it is and what it is not! The secret of all financial success, as gathered from the study of 100 successful men and 20,000 failures. The relationship between vibration (or energy) and matter.
Lesson 2 A Definite Chief Aim 117
This lesson teaches how to accumulate power through singleness of purpose.
Lesson 3 Self-Confidence 123
This lesson describes the six basic fears and explains how they may be eliminated.
Lesson 4 The Habit of Saving 131
How to save money. How the "habit" of saving develops power and character.
Lesson 5 Initiative and Leadership 137
Instructions on attaining leadership in any calling.
Lesson 6 Imagination 143
What it is and how to use it in the creation of new plans and ideas that can be converted into money.
Lesson 7 Enthusiasm 153
How to stimulate it at will. What part it plays in accumulation of power.
Lesson 8 Self-Control 157
The "balance wheel" for Enthusiasm. Tells how to control and direct all the emotions.
Lesson 9 The Habit of Doing More than Paid For 161
This lesson shows how to attract favorable attention, and how to market personal services to best advantage.
Lesson 10 A Pleasing Personality 165
The thirteen major factors which are the basis of all personality.
Lesson 11 Accurate Thinking 175
How to reach decisions. How to get the facts, and how to use facts in the building of plans that cannot be defeated.
Lesson 12 Concentration 179
How to "step up" the mind through singleness of purpose and organization of effort.
Lesson 13 Co-operation 187
How to accumulate power through co-ordination of effort. The meaning of "mergers," alliances, consolidations, interlocking directorates, etc.
Lesson 14 Profiting by Failure 197
How to turn all past failures and mistakes into capital.
Lesson 15 Tolerance 207
The part it plays in accurate thinking. How it determines whether power is constructive or destructive. How lack of it destroys opportunity.
Lesson 16 Practicing the Golden Rule 211
The scientific law on which it is based. How it may be used to gain harmonious co-operation from others.
Lesson 17 The Habit of Health 217
Describing the four simple fundamentals on which health is based.
The Thirty Most Common Causes of Failure 223
What the analysis of 20,000 "failures" disclosed about the causes of failure.
Forty Unique Ideas for Making Money 233
How the "Master Mind" principle may be applied.
A Message to Those Who Have Tried and Failed 243
Describing how Lester Park, moving picture producer, made the Law of Success philosophy convert "failure" into "success," and why he values the service rendered him by the philosophy at $1,000,000.