Think and Grow Rich, by Napoleon Hill

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"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself..."

Read a newspaper or listen to the news today and you're certain to hear of some major economic failure or calamity.

Regardless of where you live in the world there is more than enough news, that if you let it influence your thinking, will lead you to the idea that we're in for a lot of doom and gloom.

In many ways it's not any different than it was in the 1930's when America and the world was feeling the worst effects of the Great Depression. In fact, I'll bet you could probably switch out a lot of the big headlines of today with those of yesteryear and they'd probably fit.

When Franklin Delano Roosevelt came to office as President of the U.S. during that time, his inaugural address included some of the most famous words of all time, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

He goes on to say some words that aren't as famous as his quote, but have application in all our struggles, "nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."

According to Ask Yahoo! he was essentially saying "if we can't shake our pessimistic economic outlook, it will be tough to turn things around."

The whole theme for Roosevelt's quote was given to him by his presidential advisor of the time, a writer and reporter named Napoleon Hill.

It wasn't long after this that Hill wrote the block buster that is credited with helping more people become millionaires than any other book - Think and Grow Rich. From Truett Cathy, Founder and Chairman of Chick-fil-A, to cookie king Wally "Famous" Amos, Think and Grow Rich continues to influence those who seek massive success. And it was from this original blueprint that we created the highly acclaimed TGR Seminar.

Turn CNN (Constantly Negative News) off and get turned on to Napoleon's idea that what the mind of man can conceive and believe it can achieve.

- Vic Johnson