Master-Key to Riches notes

by Napoleon Hill.

By riches, he doesn't mean just money.

• Read this book twice, line by line, and think as you read! [can't. it's from the library and it's overdue already.]
• We have never yet found a truly happy person who was not engaged in some form of service by which others benefited.
• #1 of the 12 Riches of Life: Positive Mental Attitude
• #10: Self-Discipline -- the highest form of self-discipline ... expression of humility of the heart when one has attained great riches or had been overtaken by success.
• #12: Economic Security: not attained by possession of money alone. It is attained by the service one renders -- for useful service may be converted into all forms of human needs, with or without use of money. 
• Must proceed with outstretched hands, to give and to receive aid. To get one must first give!
• 9 Practices for Receiving Life's Rewards: #1 Gratitude.
• Power of thought is the only power over which one has complete control; no limitations to the power of thought save only those in one's own mind.
• Remember enduring riches must be shared with others; that there is a price one must pay for everything acquired. 
• Definite Major Purpose. Temporary defeat is but a testing ground which may prove a blessing in disguise if it is not accepted as final. 
• Carnegie's two tests: 1 - willing to Go Extra Mile; 2 - mind fixed on Definite Goal.
• Philosophy of individual achievement.
• 60 sec to answer Carnegie's question/test: proved definiteness of purpose.
• that the more successful people in all walks of life were, those have always been ones following the habit of rendering more service than which they were paid for. 
• Self-suggestion: link between conscious and subconscious mind.
• You can transfer thought from conscious to subconscious section of the mind more quickly by "stepping up" through faith, fear or any other highly intensified emotion. 
• Thoughts backed by faith have precedence over all others in definiteness and speed with which handed over to subconscious. 
• Successful people become successful only because they acquire the habit of thinking in terms of success. 
• Surest way to solve one's personal problems is to find someone with a greater problem and help that person solve it, through some method of application of the habit of Going the Extra Mile. 
• Habit of Extra Mile - one of 17 principles. It's doing more than one is paid for. 
• Greatest benefit from the habit - to those who render the service, in the form of a changed 'mental attitude;" more influence with others, more vision, more enthusiasm, greater initiative, more definiteness of purpose. 
• Success story consists of a series of little tasks well performed, in the right mental attitude. 
• Pity more have this spirit of assuming greater responsibilities.
• No one has ever been known to achieve permanent success without doing more than he was paid for. 
• Those who render more service and better service than they are paid for become indispensable and thereby insure themselves against unemployment. [Seth Godin, Linchpin touches on this point.]
• For the time being he ceased to think about  the amount of life insurance he might sell, and began to look around for opportunities to be of service to others who were burdened with problems they could not solve. 
• No one ever attains a high degree of enduring success without the friendly cooperation of others, nor does anyone ever attain enduring success without helping others. 
• Love: no one may ever become truly rich without it.
• Habit of Going Extra Mile leads to attainment of spirit of love; no greater expression of love than love which is demonstrated through service that is rendered unselfishly for the benefit of others. 
• First 3 Principles of philosophy: 1. Habit of Going Extra Mile; 2. Definiteness of Purpose; 3. Master Mind. 
• no Master Mind alliance can endure unless it benefits all whom it affects; applied to ends that benefit all who are affected by it.
• Master Mind -- greatest source of personal power. Right use. Harmonious alliance. Forming relationships that are mutually beneficial.
• Always remain a student: 9 basic motives which move people to voluntary action. 
• No one's education is ever finished. Learn from every possible source. 
• Everything that is worth having has a definite price. Patriotism has a price consisting of obligation to exercise it. 
• Master Mind principle -- individual may supplement power of his mind with knowledge, experience and mental attitude of other minds. 
• No form of human relationship is as profitable as the exchange of useful thoughts. 
• Contact with others. Harmonious relationships. A committed relationship. Love heads list of nine basic motives of life, which inspire all voluntary action. 
• Nagging, jealously, faultfinding, and indifference do not feed the emotion of love. They kill it.
• Every meal hour should be a period of friendly intercourse between a couple. Not a inquisition and faultfinding, but family worship, good cheer and discussion of pleasant subjects of mutual interest. 
• Love thrives best  where a couple feeds it through singleness of purpose.