Sai Samskruthi's Key Ideas from Think and Grow Rich
by Napoleon Hill

1. You may see your best friend and your greatest enemy by stepping in front of a mirror.
2. The most common cause of both success and failure is self.
3. Know yourself first and based on your strengths and weaknesses choose to lead or follow.
4. A leader is one who creates opportunities and induces followers to design, produce, market, and distribute products and services to the marketplace.11

1. Unwavering courage based upon knowledge of self, and of one's occupation.
2. Self-control
3. Keen sense of justice
4. Definiteness of decision
5. Definiteness of plans
6. Habit of doing more than one is paid for
7. Pleasing Personality
8. Sympathy and understanding
9. Mastery of details
10. Willingness to assume full responsibility
11. Co-operation

1. Inability to organize details.
2. Unwillingness to render humble service.
3. Expectation of pay for what they "know" instead of what they do with that which they know
4. Fear of competition from followers
5. Lack of imagination
6. Selfishness
7. Intemperance
8. Disloyalty
9. Emphasis of the "authority" of leadership
10. Emphasis of title.

1. Unfavorable hereditary background
2. Lack of a well-defined purpose in life
3. Lack of ambition to aim above mediocrity
4. Insufficient education
5. Lack Lof self-discipline
6. Ill Health
7. Unfavorable environmental influences during childhood
8. Procastination
9. Lack of Persistence
10. Negative Personality
11. Lack of controlled sexual urge
12. Uncontrolled desire for "something for nothing"
13. Lack of a well-defined power of decision
14. One or more of the six basic fears
15. Wrong selection of a mate in marriage
16. Over-Caution
17. Wrong selection of associates in business
18. Superstition and prejudice
19. Wrong selection of vocation
20. Lack of concentration of effort

21.The habit of indiscriminate spending

22.Lack of enthusiasm

23.Intolerance

24.Intemperance

25.Inability to cooperate with others

26.Possession of power that was not acquired through self-effort

27.Intentional dishonesty

28.Egotism and vanity

29.Guessing instead of thinking

30.Lack of Capital

31.Other

1. You cannot entirely control your subconscious mind, but you can voluntarily hand over to it any plan, desire, or purpose that you wish transformed into concrete form. The subconscious acts first on the dominating desires that have been mixed with emotional feeling, such as faith.
2. The subconscious mind is the connecting link between the finite mind and infinite intelligence.
3. Voluntary use of the subconscious mind calls for coordinat on and application of all 17 steps.
4. You are living in the midst of all manner of thought impulses that are reaching your subconscious mind without your knowledge.

1. Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time. One or the other must dominate. It is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating influence of your mind. Here the law of habit will come to your aid. Form the habit of applying and using the positive emotions! Eventually, they will dominate your mind so completely that the negatives cannot enter it
2. Seven major positive emotions:
3. Desire
4. Faith
5. Love
6. Sex {Passion}
7. Enthusiasm
8. Romance
9. Hope
10. Seven major negative emotions(to be avoided)
11. Fear
12. Jeaulosy
13. Hatred
14. Revenge
15. Greed
16. Superstition
17. Anger

1. No thought, whether negative or positive, can enter the subconscious mind without the aid of the principle of auto-suggestion, with the exception of thoughts picked up from the ether.
2. People may gain control of themselves and their environment, because they have the power to influence their own subconscious mind and through their subconscious minds gain the cooperation of Infinite Intelligence.
3. The subconscious mind takes any orders given it in a spirit of absolute faith, and acts upon those orders, although the orders often have to be presented over and over again, through repetition, before t

1. With auto-suggestion, you play a perfectly legitimate " trick" on your subconscious mind by making it believe, because you believe it, that you must have the amount of money you are visualizing, that this money is already awaiting your claim, that the subconscious mind must hand over to you practical plans for acquiring the money which is yours. Hand over the thought suggested to your imagination and see what your imagination can or will do to create practical plans for accumulating that money.....

The desire is crystallized into reality. Man can create anything he can imagine.

“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

1. Sexual desire is,by far,the most intense and powerful of all mind stimuli,far more potent than all of the others combined
2. The 6th sense is the faculty that marks the difference between a genius and an ordinary individual
3. A highly sexed nature is a blessing,not a curse
4. When combined,the emotions of sex,love and romance may lift one to an altitude of a genius
5. The main difference between love and sex is that love is spiritual, whereas sex is biological
6. Far from becoming geniuses bcoz of great sex desires,all too many people lower themselves,through misunderstanding and misuse of this great force

1. Auto-suggestion is the means by which thought mixed with emotion is impressed upon the subconscious mind
2. It is inconceivable that such a network of intricate machinery should exist for the sole purpose of carrying on the physical functions incidental to growth and maintenance of the physical body.
3. The simplest and most practical use of the master mind principle is to engage in a harmonious discussion of a definite subject among members of your Master Mind group.

1. Power is organized and intelligently directed knowledge
2. Master Mind is coordination of knowledge and effort,in a spirit of harmony,among 2 or more people,for the attainment of a definitepurpose
3. Great power can be accumulated through no other principle than the Master Mind
4. People take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony
5. Power is required for the accumulation and retention of money

1. You cannot accumulate money without a practical, workable plan.
2. No Individual has sufficient experience, education, native ability, and knowledge to ensure the accumulation of a great fortune without the cooperation of other people
3. A Quitter never wins and a winner never quits...
4. If you do not have property or ideas to transmute into riches, then all you can offer are your personal services
5. QQS Formula: Quality + Quantity + Spirit of Cooperation = Perfect marketing of service
6. If you want money, be worth more money!!!

1. The idea is the main thing. Specialized knowledge may be found just around the corner -- any corner!
2. The person who stops seeking knowledge merely because he has finished school is forever hopelessly doomed to mediocrity, regardless of his calling
3. The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge
4. Any person is educated who knows where to get knowledge when needed and how to organize that knowledge into definite plans of action.
5. Doing a thing well is never wasted effort!!!

1. Successful people decide and then pursue their goals with a singularity of purpose
2. The value of decisions depends upon the courage required to render them
3. Procastination is symptomatic of indecisiveness
4. Let one of your first decisions be to keep a closed mouth and open ears and eyes
5. The value of decisions depends upon the courage required to render them



1. Persist : To forge ahead despite opposition, misfortune, and criticism
2. Persistence is to character what carbon is to steel
3. Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent advantage
4. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
5. A Silent irresistible power comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement