Think and Grow Rich
Napoleon Hill (1937)
“Napoleon Hill spent twenty years studying the wealthiest Americans and distilled their success into thirteen principles — but the real revelation is that wealth begins not with money but with a state of mind so intense it reshapes reality.”
Characters in Think and Grow Rich
by Napoleon Hill · 1937 · 6 characters analyzed
Cast: Desire, Faith, The Master Mind, Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Edison, Persistence.
Character Analysis
Hill's concept of desire is not a wish but a burning obsession — a state of mental fixation so intense that it crowds out all alternatives and restructures the person's entire life around its achievement. Desire is the engine of Hill's system: without it, none of the other principles function. Hill's insistence on the specificity of desire (exact amount, exact deadline, exact plan) transforms it from an emotion into a discipline.