I am listening to a 2 cassette tape 4 side set named Selling You by Napolean Hill and Joe Slattery as the narrator/readers.  I’ve enjoyed listening to this short tape set. It teaches you a lot about believing in yourself and what you are selling. It’s about selling yourself and having a definitive purpose.  There are many excerpts from Napolean Hill in this recording.  It looks like you can buy the book and audio on amazon.com.  What your mind can conceive it can achieve.  It talks about the situation when Napolean was offered the opportunity of 20 years of learning from Andrew Carnegie during their 3 day meeting.  Anything by Napolean Hill is well worth listening to, he works on your mind and sales ideas.  That 20 years of research went into creating the Think and Grow Rich classic that you hear about today.  The quote from wikipedia is “What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

The research was to interview over 500 people, most being milionaires.  Here is how it’s explained from Wikipedia.

“As part of his research, Hill interviewed many of the most famous people of the time, including Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, George Eastman, Henry Ford, Elmer Gates, John D. Rockefeller, Sr., Charles M. Schwab, F.W. Woolworth, William Wrigley Jr., John Wanamaker, William Jennings Bryan, Joseph Stalin, Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Charles Allen Ward and Jennings Randolph. The project lasted over twenty years, during which Hill became an advisor to Carnegie.”

Wikipedia gives this list of other writings:

Writings and other works

• Hill’s Golden Rule magazine, publisher and editor (1919-1920)
• The Ladder to Success (1930)
• unpaid advisor to U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt (1933-1936)
• Think and Grow Rich – still in print in several versions, and has sold more than 30 million copies (1937).
• How to Sell Your Way through Life (1939)
• How to Raise Your Own Salary (1953)
• taught Philosophy of Personal Achievement with W. Clement Stone and lectured on the Science of Success (1952-1962)
• Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude (1960)
• abridged version of Think and Grow Rich (1960)
• You Can Work Your Own Miracles, was published posthumously (1971) following Napoleon Hill death in 1970 at age 87 in South Carolina
• Think and Grow Rich!: The Original Version, Restored and Revised (2004, published by Ross Cornwell)
• www.RonOrr.com

I am currently listening to a 2 tape set on Napolean Hill. This is based on one of the most successful, if not most successful personal development book of all time.  It’s 2 hours long, and this tape shows a copyright of 1987, even though the teachings are from near the beginning of the century based on Napolean’s 20 years of committed time.  As you may know Napolean was inspired by Andrew Carnegie, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mahatma Gandi, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and many other world leaders.  This tape set also talks about the different things humans fear.  I have included the video above to get more info on Napolean himself. I have listened to numerous stuff by Napolean Hill.

I am listening to the tape Success through a positive mental attitude by w. clement stone and napoleon hill.

Some parts from side B: Success comes from, A definiate purpose and plan, Followed by appropriate action, a combination of motives. He talks about the 7 motives.   Belief and purpose to convince oneself.   There is a good section on fear and how it’s good.  Human beings are the only species that can control their emotions from the inside.

W. Clement Stone has a section on self motivators.  Repeat the words Do it now! over and over. Such as overcoming fear and talking yourself out of fear and getting yourself to take action through self-discipline.  He talks about self suggestion, and self command.  They speak about the many virtues of Benjamin Franklin and what made him successful.

There is a section on self-discipline, habits, and thought habits.  Definite motives, is a must.  There is a section on your time, and how important it is on how you spend it.

This is done by Nightingale-conant audio 60 minute running time , and from 1987.  Overall a quick tape, but good.