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  《THINK AND GROW RICH：思考致富(英文朗读版)》，拿破仑·希尔畅销作品中的经典著作，激励爱迪生、福特、罗斯福等众多名人成功的致富秘诀，与戴尔·卡耐基《人性的弱点全集》、诺曼·V·皮尔《积极思考的力量》并列为三本跨世纪的励志经典。自1937年首版以来，全球销量高达3000多万册。本书为全英文原版，同时配以美音朗读，让读者在品读作者精彩人生的同时，亦能提升英语阅读水平。

 

 

   《THINK AND GROW RICH：思考致富(英文朗读版)》是作者具有代表性和相当受欢迎的成功经典，成为无数人前行的灯塔和路标。在钢铁大王安德鲁·卡内基的授意和资助下，作者用了25年时间，访问了500多位商界和政界名流，总结了一套完整的致富秘诀和成功哲学。并最终指导无数普通人实践书中的这些原理和法则，获得极大成功，使很多人成为了百万富翁。希尔由此被誉为“百万富翁的制造者”。

    本书为全英文朗读版，同时提供全书配套英文朗读免费下载，供读者学习致富秘诀的同时，亦能提升英语阅读水平。

 

THIS book conveys the experience of more than 500 men of great wealth, who began at scratch, with nothing to give in return for riches except THOUGHTS, IDEAS and ORGANIZED PLANS.

The book was inspired by Andrew Carnegie, after he had made his millions and retired. It was written by the man to whom Carnegie disclosed the astounding secret of his riches—the same man to whom the 500 wealthy men revealed the source of their riches.

Riches cannot always be measured in money! All who read, understand and apply this philosophy will be better prepared to attract and enjoy these higher estates which always have been and always will be denied to all except those who are ready for them.

Be prepared, therefore, when you expose yourself to the influence of this philosophy, to experience a CHANGED LIFE which may help you not only to negotiate your way through life with harmony and understanding, but also to prepare you for the accumulation of material riches in abundance.

拿破仑·希尔，1883 年出生于弗吉尼亚州西南部的一个独木屋里，与大多数成功人士一样，他靠诸多因素获得成功。年仅8 岁他便失去了母亲，15 岁时成为一家地方报小记者。对希尔影响重大的是其成功哲学的创立，当时他受命采写钢铁大王安德鲁·卡耐基，原定三个小时的采访变成了持续三天的马拉松式访谈。采访结束时，卡耐基提议将希尔介绍给当时美国最有影响力的人物，让他从这些人物的成功中获取秘密。但达成这一点的条件是：希尔要将这些秘密总结成一部让每位普通人士都能读懂明了的成功哲学。希尔当场接受了卡耐基的条件，于是他获得了一次次良机，收集研究商界巨人的第一手资料，包括亨利·福特、托马斯·爱迪生、亚历山大·贝尔、小约翰·洛克菲勒等，共500 多位。

1962 年，拿破仑·希尔与其妻安妮·L·希尔创建了希尔基金会，致力于“让世界成为人们过得更好的家园”。基金会秉承希尔的意愿，传播其个人成功哲学，并服务于社会机构、教育工作者、少数群体、监狱犯人、商界以及每一位普通百姓。《思考致富》一直伴随着希尔基金会的光辉事业，让全球读者分享其智慧和秘诀，获取人生的真正财富。

THE MAN WHO “THOUGHT” HIS

WAY INTO PARTNERSHIP WITH

THOMAS A. EDISON

TRULY, “thoughts are things,” and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a BURNING DESIRE for their translation into riches, or other material objects.

A little more than thirty years ago, Edwin C. Barnes discovered how true it is that men really do THINK AND GROW RICH. His discovery did not come about at one sitting. It came little by little, beginning with a BURNING DESIRE to become a business associate of the great Edison.

One of the chief characteristics of Barnes’ Desire was that it was definite. He wanted to work with Edison, not for him. Observe, carefully, the description of how he went about translating his DESIRE into reality, and you will have a better understanding of the thirteen principles which lead to riches.

When this DESIRE, or impulse of thought, first flashed into his mind he was in no position to act upon it. Two difficulties stood in his way. He did not know Mr. Edison, and he did not have enough money to pay his railroad fare to Orange, New Jersey.

These difficulties were sufficient to have discouraged the majority of men from making any attempt to carry out the desire. But his was no ordinary desire! He was so determined to find a way to carry out his desire that he finally decided to travel by “blind baggage,” rather than be defeated. (To the uninitiated, this means that he went to East Orange on a freight train).

He presented himself at Mr. Edison’s laboratory, and announced he had come to go into business with the inventor. In speaking 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 thing 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.”

Just what young Barnes said to Mr. Edison on that occasion was far less important than that which he thought. Edison, himself, said so! 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. If the significance of this statement could be conveyed to every person who reads it, there would be no need for the remainder of this book. Barnes did not get his partnership with Edison on his first interview. He did get a chance to work in the Edison offices, at a very nominal wage, doing work that was unimportant to Edison, but most important to Barnes, because it gave him an opportunity to display his “merchandise” where his intended “partner” could see it.

Months went by. Apparently nothing happened to bring 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 thing, it puts in its appearance.” Barnes was 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’ll change my mind and try for a salesman’s job.” But, he did say, “I came here to go into business with Edison, and I’ll 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!

Maybe 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, and bring him the opportunity he was seeking.

When the opportunity came, it appeared in a different form, and from a different direction than Barnes had expected. That is one of the tricks of opportunity. It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity.

Mr. Edison had just perfected a new office device, known at that time, as the Edison Dictating Machine (now the Ediphone). His salesmen were not enthusiastic over the machine. They did not believe it could be sold without great effort. Barnes saw his opportunity. It had crawled in quietly, hidden in a queer looking machine which interested no one but Barnes and the inventor.

Barnes knew he could sell the Edison Dictating Machine. He suggested this to Edison, and promptly

got his chance. He did sell the machine. In fact, he sold it so successfully that Edison gave him a contract to distribute and market it all over the nation. Out of that business association grew the slogan, “Made by Edison and installed by Barnes.”

The business alliance has been in operation for more than thirty years. Out of it Barnes has made himself rich in money, but he has done something infinitely greater, he has proved that one really may “Think and Grow Rich.”

How much actual cash that original DESIRE of Barnes’ has been worth to him, I have no way of knowing. Perhaps it has brought him two or three million dollars, but the amount, whatever it is, becomes insignificant when compared with the greater asset he acquired in the form of definite knowledge that an intangible impulse of thought can be transmuted into its physical counterpart by the application of known principles.