Think and Grow Rich

Remembering that he had lost a huge fortune because he STOPPED three feet from gold,

because people say ‘no’

Long afterward, Mr. Darby recouped his loss many times over when he made the discovery that DESIRE can be transmuted into gold.

“I stopped three feet from gold, but I will never stop because people say ‘no’ when I ask them to buy insurance.”

More than 500 of the most successful individuals this country has ever known have told me that their greatest success came just one step beyond the point at which defeat had overtaken them. Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.

One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.

more gold has been mined from the human brain than has ever been taken from the earth.

KNOW WHAT HE WANTED AND THE DETERMINATION TO STAND BY THAT DESIRE UNTIL HE REALIZED IT.

an intangible impulse of thought can be “transmuted” into its physical counterpart by the application of known principles.

He proved that one really can “Think and Grow Rich.”

How much actual cash that original DESIRE of Barnes was worth to him, I have no way of knowing. Perhaps it brought him two or three million dollars.2 But the amount, whatever it may have been, was insignificant when compared to the far greater asset he acquired in the form of the definite knowledge that