Think and Grow Rich

The junk man took millions of dollars in ore from the mine because he knew enough to seek expert counsel before giving up. (Location 269)

An educated man is not, necessarily, one who has an abundance of general or specialized knowledge. An educated man is one who has so developed the faculties of his mind that he may acquire anything he wants, or its equivalent, without violating the rights of others. (Location 1002)

Through the aid of his imaginative faculty, man has discovered, and harnessed, (Location 1192)

more of nature’s forces during the past fifty years than during the entire history of the human race, previous to that time. (Location 1192)

Insufficient education. This is a handicap which may be overcome with comparative ease. Experience has proven that the best-educated people are often those who are known as “self-made,” or self-educated. It takes more than a college degree to make one a person of education. Any person who is educated is one who has learned to get whatever he wants in life without violating the rights of others. Education consists, not so much of knowledge, but of knowledge effectively and persistently applied. Men are paid, not merely for what they know, but more particularly for what they do with that which they know. (Location 1656)

travel from one state to another he needs no passport, no one’s permission. (Location 1831)

The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinions of others. They permit the newspapers and the gossiping neighbors to do their thinking for them. Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. (Location 1926)

If you are influenced by opinions when you reach decisions, you will not succeed in any undertaking, much less in that of transmuting your own desire into money. (Location 1929)

If you are influenced by the opinions of others, you will have no desire of your own. (Location 1930)

Remember, also, that every time you open your mouth in the presence of a person who has an abundance of knowledge, you display to that person your exact stock of knowledge, or your lack of it! Genuine wisdom is usually conspicuous through modesty and silence. (Location 1942)

If you are keenly interested in studying the strange power which gives potency to persistence, read a biography of Mohammed, especially the one by Essad Bey. (Location 2272)