Napoleon Hill's book Keys to positive thinking is an inspiration. It taught me things that i can implement in my everyday life to enrich my personal and professional life. I have changed my outlook on a lot of subjects. Finding ways to make every situation a positive one makes for a much better outlook on life!

I had to choose a book for a report in college. The book had to be something that would help us in our lives and has to do with the psychology class I am taking. After reaading this book, it was so incredible, that I have used the information in my life and have already seen such a happy change in my own life. It helped me in my business and in my personal relationships. It is set up to do this by following the ten steps to practice for the rest of your life. It is easy reading and it is so easy to get started changing your life also. I highly recommend this book for any person that is interested in improving their relationships through a self-help book. It is all about Positive Menatal Attitude which will come back to you in many good ways. It has for me! Read this book and you have nothing to lose, just many great things to gain. I am very happy now and see the world in a whole different way! Thank You!

--look for something newer, or at least Think and Grow Rich. This book was originally published in '71 but reads like a florid self-help book of the '50s. Extremely religious and heterosexist.

I suppose everyone has read or heard about Napolean Hill's most famous work--Think and Grow Rich. You can work your own miracles will teach you how the miraculous power that lies within your own personality.

Dr. Hill explains that success belongs to those lucky people who are blessed with successful personalities. With these outstanding human beings, success is a daily miracle, a way of life, a habit.

Businesspeople, preachers, doctors, soldiers, artists---people in every walk of life---are learning to achieve their goals, to overcome all obstacles to their success, to live the live they want...through the miraculous power of the successful personality.

By following the techniques in Dr. Hill's book, you can become one of these people.

A truly amazing little book. Having experienced it's truths, I highly recommend adding this to your success library. Everyone of Mr. Hill's books add to the insight originally presented in Think and Grow Rich. As Mr. Hill advanced through life, so did his understanding of these principles. Mr. Hill's work has stood the test of time. There is no magic or hype. No infomercials or flashy web sites. Just solid principles that have been proven to work. Read it, enjoy it and use it! Apply these principles to your life and watch the miracles happen!

I read this book because it has the name of Hill. But only 365 sentences which are from Hills are good (even very short). The rest of the text is not helpful as hills writing. Try some other title with Hill.

Although I have not "completed" this book (as I haven't had it for one year (365 days); I have found it to be helpful. This book is by no means "rules to live by for a better way to live", but it gives me information to read about on a daily basis and thoughts to ponder. As it has been proven, time and time again- by reading about these things on a regular basis (and through repetition)- miraculous results will begin to occur. This is an excellent book with which to read "in combination with other books". This book helps to set the foundation to help anyone who is willing to honestly "work" to be that person they have always wanted to be. I recommend this book to anyone who likes to read "daily meditations"... On another note, I am a major coffee drinker... it's real nice to sit down in the morning and have that Folgers "wake me up", but it's even better to read these daily meditations and have it "really open my eyes"!

This book is organized by days of the year, but I enjoyed just opening it and discovering my "message" for the day. I opened it just now and one of the affirmations was "a negative mind only spawns negative ideas." Following is a short paragraph discussing the point. The affirmations are seemingly simple, but they lead to deeper issues and consideration of how you engage your mind and how you intereact with the world because of it. It is a good precursor to my current favorite book (recently published) on "positivity" - The One Minute Guide to Prosperity and Enlightenment - which gives actual techniques on how to use your positive energy/positive attitude to achieve financial and spiritual success. I just opened the One Minute Guide to a chapter with the title - "Take Control of Your Thoughts: Everything that happens in your life depends on how you spend your thought energy. You are your thoughts." Everything is colored my our own perceptions and these affirmations and techniques reinforce and demonstrate ways in which you can continually strive to achieve a positive state of mind. Good reading!

A rather contrived, mediocre book that is commanding high prices in the used book market. It is a conversation between Napoleon Hill and Andrew Carnegie concerning priciples of success. You can find the same information (at a lower cost too) in Hill's famous book, Think and Grow Rich.

This is essentially a transcript of Napoleon Hills interview with Andrew Carnegie. This is the raw information that along with 20 years of research lead Hill to write Think and Grow Rich, Master key to Riches, The Law Of Success et. al. Reading this interview is akin to reading the Bible in it's original form without translation. It gives one the opportunity to get at the raw data. OUTSTANDING, a must read for anyone pursuing self improvement and success.

A mega-wealthy business mentor and friend told me that this was the guidebook along with the bible he lived to dominate "Success", financially and spiritually. I heard that as a command to search as long as it took to find this book. As that was my mission as did I receive, a mint 1954 third edition. This document contains a conversation between Andrew Carnegie and Napoleon Hill which describes to the smallest detail the Principals for Success, they are PRICELESS. First Printing10,000 June 1953 Second Printing10,000 September 1953 Third Printing50,000 April 1953 Note: this book is rare but the are out there. Also advised was Think and Grow Rich *****

This is a classic Upfield mystery, although Upfield's not at his best here. Bonarparte is sent to a bustling mining town, but doesn't do much of his usual bushman's work. Upfield portrays the life in this town well, but the murderer's motive is pretty weak this time.

Arthur Upfield's Bony books are a wonderful mixture of Australian life, natural history, and subtle humor. The Bachelors of Broken Hill is typical of his stories, though it is set in a remote mining town as opposed to his usual outback settings. Everyone where I live who reads one book reads them all. We pass copies back and forth as many are out of print and reread them aloud to each other. I keep a map of Australia handy to follow each story and have visited some of the places mentioned in his books. He brings alive a sense of intellectual curiousity as you follow Bony's clues to put enough evidence together for an iron clad verdict.

Napoleon hill shares with the reader a great research about the most significant thing over earth. People.

After more than 20 years of talking with more than 500 of the reachest and most powerful men in the World, he brings to the paper his bag of knowledge. It is there ready to be shared with you.

Personally I have opened once and once again at least once a year for the last 20 years. You will find a great source of personal motivation, self esteeme and a better way to live the day by day matters of your life.

Believe me, altough it was wrote about a century ago,this may be the best advice you get in your life.

Humberto Trevino Monterrey, Mexico

La Actitud Mental Positiva Un Camino Hacia El Exito, es un libro que todos debemos leer, ya que nos hace cambiar nuestra forma de ver las cosas, nos enseña que todas las situaciones de la vida tienen dos caras, una mala y otra buena. Este libro indica que camino tomar para ver el lado positivo de las cosas y haciéndonos cambiar nuestro punto de vista para nuestro bien. Realmente vale la pena no solo leerlo sino relerlo y estudiarlo para así tener una guia de actuacion que nos traera mucho provecho.

When I first saw this book on the shelf I didn't hesitate to purchase it. I was an avid reader of Napoleon Hill's books and was always curious about his life. That curiousity has been somewhat satisfied by reading this biography of him written the executive director of the Napoleon Hill Foundation.

A Lifetime of Riches chronicles the roller coaster life of one of the pioneers of success programs. Born of modest circumstances Napoleon Hill rose to become one of the greatest promoters of personal and material success. His rise to fame didn't come easy. In fact he would fail many times but would get right up again for another try.

His tenaciousness, vision and audacity to try new ideas are the hallmarks of a personality that wouldn't accept defeat. Authors Michael Ritt and Kirk Landers provide the reader with a view of a man who had both his faults and weaknesses. Hill is obsessed with his mission for success and unfortunately placed everything else (including his wife and children) as third or fourth place. He paid for that mistake but still was able to bounce back in his later life.

I certainly enjoyed this book for its realistic portrayal of Hill (he was both saint and sinner) in both his good times and bad times. From his life the reader can learn it is never to late to start over regardless of age ( this was true of Hill and his father), financial setbacks or other impediments. Hill's life sets the standard for success even if it appears to allude you in time it will come.

A Lifetime of Riches is a good book to get some idea of Hill's life but it is not very detailed. Much of its information comes from Hill's unpublished "autobiography". Absent are any interviews or insight from those who worked with him. Very little is mentioned about his estrangement with his father and brothers or his importance in history as part of the motivational industry that is now a thriving industry. Perhaps someday more details will be given but for now enjoy this work of one of life's greatest motivators.

Hill's "Think & Grow Rich" may be the best self-help book ever written. So many of his readers will be glad to have any biography about him, even though this first one came 25 years after his death. I commend the authors for not whitewashing Hill, but there is so much missing. A major reason T&GR has become an enduring classic is the underlying spiritual outlook. When Hill was a young man New Thought was blooming in America and he must have been influenced by such books as "In Tune With the Infinite." There is virtually no mention of Hill's spiritual development in the book. Secondly, Hill commented ad nauseum how Andrew Carnegie gave him a 20-year commission to study and interview successful peoople, that Carnegie would provide letters of introduction to Hill and pay his travel expenses. If this was so there must be a letter of introduction somewhere, somplace filed away. The authors quote none. Suppose Hill made that up. I don't think it cancels the value of his book, but it sure belongs in a biography. Finally, since there is so little readily accessible about Hill why not provide a bibliography of the books, magazines and newspapers where the best interviews and comments on his work exist. Still, I recommend this book because there is nothing else.

Having been a student of Napoleon Hill for many years I find Hill's own writing both brilliant, and inspirational.

Through this book I have come to learn Hill is human too, he had to learn some of his lessons the hard way. While the book lacks the brilliant motivational style of Hills own writing, we must remember that it is a biography. I question that Napoleon Hill could have been quite as honest about his life and some of its tragedies if he had written the book himself.

A Lifetime Of Riches provides good insight to the life of the man who has been such an inspiration to so many people, myself included. It offers a chronological view of the life of Hill. Granted, some of the detail of Hill's actual formulation of the success philosophy is missing. Still, the book reminds us that we strive for progress not perfection. If we fall down we must get back up.

My thanks to Mr Ritt, Mr Landers, and The Napoleon Hill Foundation for giving me the opportunity to have a greater understanding of Napoleon Hill.

I read the review by the person before me but unfortunately did not heed the warning. The tape series includes two of Napoleon Hill's works in an abridged form but the narration does not project the vitality of the man's words very well. The narrator has a clear and pleasant voice but isn't able to convey the spirit and energy of Napoleon Hill. The second of the two books on this tape series, "The key to master riches", was the better of the two but do try to find tapes that have Napoleon Hill's actual voice.
One that I like is "Napoleon Hill's Grow Rich Now!" It will give you a better idea of the power of his ideas and his tremendous gift to mankind. The titles of all his books have to do with riches but as you read or listen to any of his work you'll see that he's really sharing ideas on how to attract abundance into your life how ever you may define that.

I woke with a start when Napoleon Hill's voice came on in this tape. Hill was a dynamic, exciting motivational speaker. After listening to Hill you believe you can achieve anything. Unfortunately, he speaks for only a few brief moments. The rest of the tape set is read by Rob Actis, who will gently and soothingly put you to sleep. Spend the extra money and get genuine Napoleon Hill tapes or else buy the book. This tape set is unconvincing.

I really liked these tapes. I usually find it hard to listen to motivational speakers for very long, but this particular combination worked well for me.

I listened to the cassettes in the car on a long-distance drive and I found the narrator's tone very conversational. The impression I had was as if I were watching a documentary with a narrator introducing difficult concepts and then presenting clips from a film reel of a powerful and persuasive, wise speaker to explain them.

Even without an actual screen, I was left with a distinct visual impression and a sense of almost having been there. That's what I look for in audio books.

Greetings. I may be exactly where you were, wondering what this new revised edition has to offer that the others do not (Esp. the ORIGINAL UNABRIDGED VERSION of THE LAW OF SUCCESS that was released by Melvin Powers.)

Here's the deal:

This book actually has Hill's original work that was, I believe, the 5th edition published by Friends of Napoleon Hill, with a few adjustments. Some of the text has been altered ie the changing of "long-haired theorist" to simply "theorist".. etc. Also, instead of Hill's famous "The author claims" sayings, they've been altered to "I claim".

Lastly, this book is an annotated version, meaning that supplimentary comments are added. What I noticed unfortunately was the comments are brief, and not well researched. For example, Sartwell writes about how autosuggestion has been improved and documented after Hill's first publication, but has failed to offer the name of the science which studies the nature of the mind and subconscious influence. This science is called Neuro Lingustic Programming or "NLP".

One thing that you MAY be looking for (as I was) was that Sartwell talks about how Hill has changed his views on marriage and The Master Mind. In the original text, Hill stressed that we MUST get married with a woman to receive the full benefits of this principle. However, homosexuality exists, and some people do not wish to get married. (No problem, Hill now believes that Sex Transmutation (10th Step toward Riches in Think and Grow Rich will suffice.)

What I didn't like about this edition:

The little bookmark tassle in the book itself is poorly made, ie it's obviously just cut off with some sort of machine that frays the ends. Not impressive for an expensive collector's edition. Sigh.

Also, you will find inconsistencies, such as Matthew Hartwell's introduction claiming that Napoleon Hill wrote a classic called "Keys to Success". Sorry, but Napoleon Hill did NOT write this book; he wrote "Master Key to Riches".

Hope that helps your decision.

Thanks!