Success Secrets of the Great Masters (Condensed Classics): Think and Grow Rich, The Power of Your Subconscious Mind and Public Speaking to Win!

SUCCESS SECRETS OF THE GREAT MASTERS

The Condensed Classics Bundles Library

INFINITE MIND POWER

LEADERSHIP

MASTER YOUR MIND!

MONEY MAGIC!

NAPOLEON HILL’S GOLDEN CLASSICS

SUCCESS DYNAMITE

SUCCESS SECRETS OF THE GREAT MASTERS

THE POWER OF OPTIMISM

SUCCESS SECRETS OF THE GREAT MASTERS

NAPOLEON HILL

Think and Grow Rich

JOSEPH MURPHY

The Power of Your Subconscious Mind

DALE CARNEGIE

Public Speaking to Win!

ABRIDGED AND INTRODUCED BY

MITCH HOROWITZ

Published by Gildan Media LLC

aka G&D Media.

www.GandDmedia.com

Think and Grow Rich was originally published in 1937

The Power of Your Subconscious Mind was originally published in 1963

Public Speaking to Win! was originally published in 1926 as

Public Speaking: A Practical Course for Business Men

G&D Media Condensed Classics editions published 2019

Abridgement and Introduction copyright © 2019 by Mitch Horowitz

No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form, by any means, (electronic, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without the prior written permission of the author. No liability is assumed with respect to the use of the information contained within. Although every precaution has been taken, the author and publisher assume no liability for errors or omissions. Neither is any liability assumed for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein.

FIRST EDITION: 2019

Cover design by David Rheinhardt of Pyrographx

Interior design by Meghan Day Healey of Story Horse, LLC.

ISBN: 978-1-7225-0187-7

eISBN: 978-1-7225-2285-8

Contents

Introduction

THINK AND GROW RICH

THE POWER OF YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND

PUBLIC SPEAKING TO WIN!

Introduction

A Life Change Awaits You

By Mitch Horowitz

Can a book change a life? From experience, I know that it can. The three books condensed into this collection—Think and Grow Rich; The Power of Your Subconscious Mind; and Public Speaking to Win!—have exercised tremendous influence over me as a writer, artist, and businessperson. Collectively, they have dramatically improved my life. In these abridgments, each done with veneration for the author’s vision, I have retained exactly what I learned.

I want to share with you my discoveries—and I think when you are done with Success Secrets of the Great Masters, you will be prepared to add your own.

•  I once reduced Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich to a single sentence: Emotionalized thought directed toward one passionately held aim—aided by organized planning and the Master Mind—is the root of all accomplishment. I ask you to hold that in mind and return to it as you experience this condensation of Hill’s classic program. No one has done more than Hill to arrange the mental principles of success into one core curriculum.

•  Joseph Murphy’s The Power of Your Subconscious Mind is the perfect mystical adjunct to Hill. In a manner that is infectious and persuasive, Murphy contends that your subconscious mind is an engine of causation, and that once you impress the subconscious with an aim or wish it devises methods of progress and unfoldment that, at times, seem astounding. This is a principle with which Hill agreed.

•  Finally, this collection contains an abridgment of Dale Carnegie’s original public-speaking course, here titled Public Speaking to Win! Carnegie’s lessons taught me the overarching power of preparation not only in devising a public talk but in every undertaking in life. The genius of Carnegie’s lesson plan is that—like all great ethical and performance-based lessons—it transcends the concerns of its title to become an overall guide to personal effectiveness in every facet of life: work, relationships, and creativity.

If you study these abridgments carefully you will enter into the most powerful inspirational and motivational lessons to emerge from the self-help field. Will they change your life? Begin and find out.

Mitch Horowitz is a PEN Award-winning historian and the author of books including The Miracle Club: How Thoughts Become Reality. He edits and introduces G&D Media’s line of Condensed Classics and is the author of the Napoleon Hill Success Course series, including The Miracle of a Definite Chief Aim and The Power of the Master Mind.

THINK AND GROW RICH

THINK AND GROW RICH

by Napoleon Hill

The Original 1937 Classic

Abridged and Introduced

by Mitch Horowitz

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

The Power of a Single Book

CHAPTER ONE

Desire

The First Step to Riches

CHAPTER TWO

Faith

The Second Step to Riches

CHAPTER THREE

Auto Suggestion

The Third Step to Riches

CHAPTER FOUR

Specialized Knowledge

The Fourth Step to Riches

CHAPTER FIVE

Imagination

The Fifth Step to Riches

CHAPTER SIX

Organized Planning

The Sixth Step to Riches

CHAPTER SEVEN

Decision

The Seventh Step to Riches

CHAPTER EIGHT

Persistence

The Eighth Step to Riches

CHAPTER NINE

The Master Mind

The Ninth Step to Riches

CHAPTER TEN

Sex Transmutation

The Tenth Step to Riches

CHAPTER ELEVEN

The Subconscious Mind

The Eleventh Step to Riches

CHAPTER TWELVE

The Brain

The Twelfth Step to Riches

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

The Sixth Sense

The Thirteenth Step to Riches

EPILOGUE

A Word about Fear

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

INTRODUCTION

The Power of a Single Book

The book you are about to experience has probably touched more lives than any other work of modern self-help. Try a small personal experiment: Carry a copy of Think and Grow Rich with you through an airport, grocery store, shopping mall, or any public place—and see if more than one person doesn’t stop you and say something like, "Now, that’s a great book …"

I have met artists, business people, doctors, teachers, athletes—people from different professions and possessed of seemingly different outer goals—who have attested that Think and Grow Rich made a concrete