Tom Saputo has written and recorded a song based on one of the stories from " Think and Grow Rich...
The Inventor and the" Tramp."
He presented himself at Mr. Edision's laboratory, and announced he had come to go into business with the investor. In speajing of the first meeting between Barnes and Edison, years later, Mr. Edison said: " He stood there before me, looking like an ordinary tramp, but there was something in the expression of his face which conveyed the impression that he was determined to get what he had come after. I had learned, from years of experience with men, that when a man really desires a things so deeply that he is willing to stake his entire future on a single turn of the wheel in order to get it, he is sure to win. I gave him the opportunity he asked for, because I saw he had made up his mind to stand by until he succeeded. Subsequent events proved that no mistake was made." It could not have been the young man's appearance which got him his start in the Edison office, for that was definitely against him. It was what he thought that counted. Barnes did not get his partneship with Edison on his first interview. He did get a chance to work in the Edison offices, at a very nominal wage. Months went by. Apparently nothing happened to bring nearer the coveted goal which Barnes had set up in his mind as his definite major purpose. But something important was happening in Barnes' mind. He was constantly intensifying his desire to become the business associate of Edison. Psychologists have correctly said that "when one is truly ready for a business association with Edison; moreover, he was determined to remain ready until he got that which he was seeking. He did not say to himself, " Ah well, what's the use? I guess I'II change my mind and try for a saleman's joa." But, he did say ," I came here to go into business with Edison, and I'II accomplish this end if it takes the remainder of my life." He meant it! What a different story men would have to tell if only they would adopt a definite purpose, and stand by that purpose until it had time to become an all-consuming obsession! May be young Barnes did not know it at the time, but his bulldog determination, his persistence in standing back of a single desire, was destined to mow down all opposition.
Think and Grow Rich is a motivational personal development and self-help book written by Napoleon Hill [1] and inspired by a suggestion from Scottish-American businessman Andrew Carnegie. While the title implies that this book deals only with how to achieve monetary wealth, the author explains that the philosophy taught in the book can be used to help individuals succeed in all lines of work and to do or be almost anything they want in this world.[2] For instance, Jim Murray (sportswriter) wrote that Think and Grow Rich was credited for Ken Norton's boxing upset of Muhammad Ali in 1973.[3] [4] The Reverend Charles Stanley writes "I began to apply the principles of (Think and Grow Rich) to my endeavors as a pastor, and I discovered they worked!" [5] The book was first published in 1937 during the Great Depression.[6] At the time of Hill's death in 1970, Think and Grow Rich had sold 20 million copies.[7] It remains the biggest seller of Napoleon Hill's books - a perennial best-seller after 70 years (BusinessWeek Magazine's Best-Seller List ranked Think and Grow Rich as the sixth best-selling paperback business book 70 years after it was first published). [8] Think and Grow Rich is listed in John C. Maxwell's A Lifetime "Must Read" Books List. [9]
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