He forgot to mention that George Washington was 43 when he took on the greatest military on earth. Edison & Carnegie were past the age of 40 when they made their fortune. In fact, most success does not come until after you are 40 years old. Most people do not succeed until they are older. Also, 99% of the public has no goal in life that is why they are stuck in jobs they do not want. For example, sex transmutation is where you transfer the energy of your libido into other purposes.

There are also a lot of interesting ideas in this book. It outlines the steps you need to take and the steps you need to avoid. It is really about convincing yourself to become wealthy. This book was published in 1937, during the Great Depression, and if the people who suffered during that time had read this book their lives might have been better. I think if the people who gave it one star would practice the principles given in this book they would quickly upgrade their rating. I was looking through some of the reviews and see that some people gave it five stars and some gave it only one. Read real literature instead: you'll definitely increase your IQ this way. Tell me that such ideas as 'desiring it enough' would work in Somalia, hell, even in Egypt, and then we'll talk.ĭon't waste your time with this codswallop. This book is a perfect example of everything that is wrong in today's first-world-white-heterosexual-male-dominated economic culture. So, if your business is not successful, you are to blame, because you simply failed to desire it enough? Fuck that shit. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat” are ludicrous, absolutely ridiculous and delve into the worst kind of new-agey, self-help bullshitting bullying: victim-blaming.

Quotes like “The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Let's be honest to ourselves and face the truth: success in business depends on a complex equation with a lot of variants, such as 1) how well your business idea adapts to the powers of supply and demand, which govern (and oppress) contemporary society, 2) where you come from economically to begin with (I've seen aromatherapy businesses run by middle-class sons of bitches grow and be more 'successful' than neighborhood food establishments run by poor honest people), 3) how much investing capital you have at the time of creating your business, 4) your race, and 5) sheer dumb luck.

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill