By Napoleon Hill
CONTENTS
FOREWORD PUBLISHER’S PREFACE AUTHOR’S PREFACE CHAPTER 1 – INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 2 - DESIRE CHAPTER 3 - FAITH CHAPTER 4 - AUTO-SUGGESTION CHAPTER 5 - SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE CHAPTER 6 - IMAGINATION PART II CHAPTER 7 - ORGANIZED PLANNING CHAPTER 8 - DECISION CHAPTER 9 - PERSISTENCE CHAPTER 10 - POWER OF THE MASTER MIND CHAPTER 11 - THE MYSTERY OF SEX TRANSMUTATION CHAPTER 12 - THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND CHAPTER 13 - THE BRAIN CHAPTER 14 - THE SIXTH SENSE CHAPTER 15 - HOW TO OUTWIT THE SIX GHOSTS OF FEAR - THE DEVIL’S WORKSHOP (THES SEVENTH BASIC EVIL) SELF-ANALYSIS TEST QUESTIONS FIFTY-SEVEN FAMOUS ALIBIS
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FOREWORD
WHAT DO YOU WANT MOST?
Is It Money, Fame, Power, Contentment, Personality, Peace of Mind, Happiness?
The Thirteen Steps to Riches described in this book offer the shortest dependable philosophy of individual achievement ever presented for the benefit of the man or woman who is searching for a definite goal in life. Before beginning the book you will profit greatly if you recognize the fact that the book was not written to entertain. You cannot digest the contents properly in a week or a month. After reading the book thoroughly, Dr. Miller Reese Hutchison, nationally known Consulting Engineer and long-time associate of Thomas A. Edison, said— “This is not a novel. It is a textbook on individual achievement that came directly from the experiences of hundreds of America’s most successful men. It should be studied, digested, and meditated upon. No more than one chapter should be read in a single night. The reader should underline the sentences which impress him most. Later, he should go back to these marked lines and read them again. A real student will not merely read this book, he will absorb its contents and make them his own. This book should be adopted by all high schools and no boy or girl should be permitted to graduate without having satisfactorily passed an examination on it. This philosophy