This is not a sales video, or an attempt to get your email address or anything like that. This is a video on YouTube of the legendary Napoleon Hill. He interviewed, followed, and studied over 500 very successful people, most notably billionaire Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and Theodore Roosevelt. Napoleon Hill found many similarities in the way these mega successful people think, and how their thought processes are different from the rest of us. Watching this video helped me gain an insight into what type of mindset you need to be mega successful. I know there are many budding entrepreneurs on here, so it might help a few of you. See what you think... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NquYfZ5OLQ
Its great stuff. This guy literally spent 25 years personally studying people like Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, and over 500 more very successful people. You've got to listen to someone like this. I recently read his book 'think and grow rich' and realised how many times his principals have been copied, changed and distorted since.
I had no idea they had motivational speakers back then. It's all the same. Total BS. That is my opinion anyway. Maybe the people he studied "got it" or maybe they were just crazy enough to buck the system and do things their own way without having any idea they were doing something special. Maybe the analysts read too much into their success. Do you think Bill Gates one day got all emotional and decided that he was going to follow his dreams?.... or was he just fucking around on computers for fun because he had nothing better to do? It's all luck my friends. Pure luck.
No way is it pure luck. Look at Bill Gates. Do you think anyone can have a product that is installed on nearly all the worlds computer by luck - pure luck?! He planned this and worked very hard to make it happen. He had a vision, then worked very hard to make it happen. Bill Gates aimed to have the industry standard operating system and got it. He offered his MSDOS at a very cheap rate, so cheap he was making no profit at all, in order to get the deals. He knew that the money would eventually come later. Bill Gates had many aggressive marketing ploys in order to maintain being the industry standard with Windows. This was not luck - no way. This is the reason why good speakers like Napoleon Hill this are useful to listen to. A large proportion of people believe, just as you appear to, that wealth is down to luck. This is the reason why a large proportion of people will never become wealthy. They will not work at it if they believe that it is all luck - why would you? Henry Ford started with a dream of mass producing affordable cars. He worked hard and achieved that dream and became very wealthy. Napoleon Hill basically advocates having a very definite dream, then working hard and being patient in order to achieve it. This is not rocket science. If you don't know what you want to achieve, then how can you achieve it? If someone wants to be a world boxing champion, then they have to work hard on becoming as good a boxer as they can be - not sit about waiting for lady luck to hand him a title shot without ever training or fighting before, then a lucky punch. You may not agree with what Napoleon Hill says, and that's fine. But to say that building wealth is pure luck in naive - in my opinion anyway!
lolol how did you get a hold of the first video ever. this talk of the master key and him talking in parables.
I'm not questioning his work. Take a closer look at how the seeds were planted. He was simply born in the right year so that his interests and talents in computers coincided with a very special window of oppurtunity in computing. If he had been born a few years earlier or later, he would have missed the window and we would all be using Macs. There is a luck element to every success story. Hard work and talent aren't enough.
I still disagree! If Bill Gates was around in a different era, don't you think he would have developed a slightly different goal, and approached it with the same determination? He was a very avid reader of business literature and he understood the need to find a unique place in a growing market to exploit. There will always be such opportunities if you have the right mind set to spot them and exploit them. There are still many untapped opportunities in computing, perhaps more than ever now its such a global thing. I do agree that there has to be a luck element, as we cannot control everything around us, but certainly don't agree that it is 'pure luck', and that we can greatly enhance our chances with the right mind set. I like the phrase 'window of opportunity in computing' that you use btw!!