Probably the most well-known book about creating wealth also happens to be one of the best, if not the best. Think and Grow Rich was written by Napolean Hill in 1960 at the behest of Andrew Carnegie.
Carnegie, who amassed his fortune in steel, is one of the richest people to have ever lived; the book contains his secret for creating wealth. Think and Grow Rich is one of the best-selling books of all time. It is now in its twentieth printing.
Among the people who used Carnegie’s secret in their own endeavors are Henry Ford, Charles Schwab, Theodore Roosevelt, Wilbur Wright, John D. Rockefeller, Thomas Edison, Woodrow Wilson, and Alexander Graham Bell.
“[I]f you’re in your thirties, forties, fifties – even your sixties and beyond – you’ve still got an opportunity to put your life on the right track financially and stop worrying about the future,” says David Bach, financial advisor and author of this book and several others, including The Automatic Millionaire.
Like most books of financial advice, Start Late, Finish Rich reinforces the commonsense principles you probably already knew you should be following. Also like most of them, it contains a few of the author’s personal and sometimes counter-intuitive ideas.