title: Think and Grow Rich: The Original, an Official Publication of The Napoleon Hill Foundation
author:  Napoleon Hill 
description: I read it every two or three years to keep my drive going.<br> - <b>Daymond John</b>, Founder and CEO of FUBU apparel and Co-Star of ABC TV's Shark Tank<br><br><i>Think and Grow Rich</i> contains the ideas, the definitions, and the clarifications that provide the ANSWERS. Hill describes it as the roadmap to riches. I'm telling you, it's the most important success thinking you'll ever be exposed to - as long as your repeat it until it becomes your reality. - --<b>Geoffrey Gitomer</b><br /><br />I was introduced to Think and Grow Rich! as a high school student. It gave me a new lease on life when I released I could do anything if I had the desire and believed I could achieve my goals.<br> - <b>S. Truett Cathy</b>, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Chick-fil-A, Inc.<br><br> <i>Think and Grow Rich</i>!...Buy it...you have a book. Read it...you have the blueprint. Do it...you have the world! - --<b>Cactus Jack Barringer</b>, Entrepreneur, Inventor, Salesman Extraordinaire<br /><br />This is the best single book on personal success ever written; it made me a millionaire -- starting from nothing.<br> - <b>Brian Tracy</b>, New York Times Bestselling Author<br><br> It's the classic of all classics. - --<b>Harvey Mackey</b>, Author of the #1 New York Times: Bestseller, <i>Swim with the Sharks without Being Eaten Alive</i>
zlib_text: ![](Images/cover00136.jpeg)  
  Table of Contents
  
  * * *
  
  Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
  
  1938
  
  \---
  
  Scanned at sacred-texts.com, July 2006. Proofed and formatted by John Bruno
  Hare. This text is in the public domain in the United States by the terms of
  the Digital Millennium Copyright Act because it was published between 1923 and
  1964 inclusive, and not renewed at the US Copyright office in a timely
  fashion. These files may be used for any non-commercial purpose, provided this
  notice of attribution is left intact in all copies. This electronic edition is
  not sponsored or endorsed by, or otherwise affiliated with Napoleon Hill, his
  family and heirs, the Napoleon Hill Foundation, the Ralston Society, or any
  past or present publishers of this book.
  
  \---
  
  * FOREWORD
  
  * PUBLISHER'S PREFACE
  
  * AUTHOR'S PREFACE
  
  * CHAPTER 1
  
  * CHAPTER 2
  
  * CHAPTER 3
  
  * CHAPTER 4
  
  * CHAPTER 5
  
  * CHAPTER 6
  
  * CHAPTER 7
  
  * CHAPTER 8
  
  * CHAPTER 9
  
  * CHAPTER 10
  
  * CHAPTER 11
  
  * CHAPTER 12
  
  * CHAPTER 13
  
  * C