Napoleon Hill’s Truthful Living with Jeffrey Gitomer #240

This episode’s guest is Napoleon Hill. Hill is the author of the book Think and Grow Rich which according to Wikipedia is one of the top 10 best selling self help books of all time. It’s important to know that Hill died in 1970 which begs the question, how is it that Napoleon Hill is on Sales Babble? Our other guest is the sales king Jeffrey Gitomer who is taken Napoleon Hill’s Truthful Living book and re-published it with annotations, definitions, and editing for the modern reader. Jeffrey is a renowned author on sales books including the Sales Bible and cohosts with Jennifer Gluckow the Sell or Die podcast. Today we dig into the eternal truths of Napoleon Hill and how it applies to sales and any who have the entrepreneurial spirit.

Personal Development, Positive Attitude and Wealth

Jeffrey has been a long fan of Hill’s work. Hill had an advertising school on sales. He would type out his lessons, then assembled those lessons into this book. Written in 1917 and now over a 100 years ago the book is still 100% relevant. This book has been a three year project available on October 30th, 2018

Take Action

Success is up to you. Finish what you start. Hill encourages you to succeed while giving you the ideas to succeed with.

“Success may be had by those who are willing to pay the price… And the price is eternal vigilance in the development of Self-confidence, Enthusiasm, Working with the Chief Aim, Performing more Service than you are paid for, and Concentration. With these qualities well developed you will be sure to succeed.” – Napoleon Hill

To be an entrepreneur, it takes focus and letting go of distractions and car payments. To be an entrepreneur it demands rising from the fray.

Companies come and go… Sears and Roebuck. Montgomery Wards, Marshall Fields, and the Yellow Pages were all mainstays in the past century, but now history. They were not targeted, too diverse, expanded too quickly, too soon and lost focus on their core competency. All of these companies waited too long. They failed Hill’s teaching of “eternal vigilance” and working on the “Chief Aim”.

Quote of the day

“Bing helps you decide to use Google.” Jeffrey Gitomer.

How To Find Jeffrey Gitomer

You can find Jeffrey all over the web:

LinkedIn
Sell or Die podcast
New book Napoleon Hill Truthful Living Go here to download the first chapter for free!

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