How to Sell Your Way Through Life: Highly Proven to Help Make Millionaires! [Paperback]

Napoleon Hill (Author), Forrest Wallace Cato (Introduction)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 2005

TIMELESS WISDOM from the ORIGINAL PHILOSOPHER of PERSONAL SUCCESS

"No matter who you are or what you do, you are a salesperson. Every time you speak to someone, share an opinion or explain an idea, you are selling your most powerful asset . . . you! In How to Sell Your Way Through Life, Napoleon Hill shares valuable lessons and proven techniques to help you become a true master of sales."
—Sharon Lechter, Coauthor of Think and Grow Rich: Three Feet from Gold; Member of the President's Advisory Council on Financial Literacy

"These proven, time-tested principles may forever change your life."
—Greg S. Reid, Coauthor of Think and Grow Rich: Three Feet from Gold; Author of The Millionaire Mentor

"Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich and Laws of Success are timeless classics that have improved the lives of millions of people, including my own. Now, we all get the chance to savor more of his profound wisdom in How to Sell Your Way Through Life. It is a collection of simple truths that will forever change the way you see yourself."
—Bill Bartmann, Billionaire Business Coach and Bestselling Author of Bailout Riches (www.billbartman.com)

Napoleon Hill, author of the mega-bestseller Think and Grow Rich, pioneered the idea that successful individuals share certain qualities, and that examining and emulating these qualities can guide you to extraordinary achievements.

Written in the depths of the Great Depression, How to Sell Your Way Through Life explores a crucial component of Achievement: your ability to make the sale. Ringing eerily true in today's uncertain times, Hill's work takes a practical look at how, regardless of our occupation, we must all be salespeople at key points in our lives. Hill breaks down concrete instances of how the Master Salesman seizes advantages and opportunities, giving you tools you can use to effectively sell yourself and your ideas. Featuring a new Foreword from leadership legend Ken Blanchard, this book is a classic that gives you one beautifully simple principle and the proven tools to make it work for you.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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About the Author

Napoleon Hill was a highly successful and influential author who was one of the earliest producers of the modern genre of personal-success literature. His most famous work, Think and Grow Rich, is one of the bestselling books of all time. Additionally, Hill established the Napoleon Hill Foundation as a nonprofit educational institution to perpetuate his philosophy of leadership, self-motivation, and individual achievement. For more information, please visit www.naphill.org. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 202 pages
• Publisher: Lexington House; Revised edition (May 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0910882118
• ISBN-13: 978-0910882118
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #711,925 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Napoleon Hill was born in 1883 in Wise County, Virginia. He began his writing career at age 13 as a "mountain reporter" for small town newspapers and went on to become America's most beloved motivational author. His work stands as a monument to individual achievement and is the cornerstone of modern motivation. His most famous work, Think and Grow Rich, is one of the best-selling books of all time. Hill established the Foundation as a nonprofit educational institution whose mission is to perpetuate his philosophy of leadership, self-motivation, and individual achievement.
www.naphill.org

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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Napolean Hill book I never knew existed., September 27, 2005

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Tony DeFrancisco (Central Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to Sell Your Way Through Life: Highly Proven to Help Make Millionaires! (Paperback)

This book was strongly recommended by Jeffrey Gitomer, author of The Sales Bible. Jeffrey said that the only complaint he had was that he didn't write it and that it was in his opinion the best sales book ever written, even better than his own books.

This book has some of the same content as Succeed and Grow Rich Through Persuasion but also has much more information as well. When I first saw it I thought it was the same book with a different title.

This book is more like the psychology of selling. You won't find any fancy, smancy selling technique in here. Read Tommy Hopkins for that. There are chapters on qualifying your prospect and closing the sale, but this book more than anything, shows you the person you have to become to become a great salesperson.

To wit, both Tom Hopkins and Jeffrey Gitomer, probably the two greatest sales trainers in the world today place a great deal of emphasis in their training to attitude and personal development in addition to sales techniques. No one teaches attitude better than Napolean Hill.

The bulk of the material is in part I. In part two, Hill tells us how to develop a sales personality, how to find a job and even how to create a job and how to manage your time. The final chapter, chapter 21 tells us how to put it all together.

Overall, I was very impressed with How To Sell Your Way Through Life. And a recommendation from no less than Jeffrey Gitomer stands on it's own merit. Read this along with Tom Hopkins How To Master The Art of Selling and Gitomers The Sales Bible and you can't go wrong.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Life Changing Classic Indeed!, May 15, 2005

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CyberMan "http://xtravelganza.gttrends.net" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to Sell Your Way Through Life: Highly Proven to Help Make Millionaires! (Paperback)

I am continually fascinated by the great works of the late, great Napolean Hill. Being familiar with Hill, I was surprised to find this title, one which I never heard of before on my favorite books tore shelf. I appears that with the renewed interest in personal development, pma and motivation, many of Hill's previously published works are resurecting. And I am glad for that.

This booki s divided into two sections, 21 chapters and over 200 pages. It is pure meat, no nonsense. Great stuff from the master himself. In particular, the chapter on the top qualities of the master salesman and insights into Henry Ford's philosophy were outstanding.

I know some of Napolean Hill's detracters will attack this book based on it's age, but this information is timeless. And who wouldn't want to take a peek into the minds of great business/salesmen like Henry Ford? This book shows you how.

There is a lot of talk today about consultative selling techniques. In How To Sell Your Way Through Life, particularly in chapters 10 and 11, Hill talks about consultive selling, qualifying the prospect and neutralizing your prospective buyers mind.

In chapter 12, The Art of Closing The Sale, Hill explains how to close sales and how to keep them closed; produce happy customers and practilly eliminate buyers remorse. He tells an interesting story of a cadillac car salesman from Maryland and how these strategies made a huge difference.

Of course some of the information will be familiar to Hill fans like The MAster Mind strategy and others. Overall a great book by a great man. Must reading for all serious salespeople.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An absolute powerhouse, written in 1939 and still vibrant today, February 3, 2008

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Mike (San Jose, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How to Sell Your Way Through Life: Highly Proven to Help Make Millionaires! (Paperback)

I own a pretty extensive library of books on Sales & Marketing, plus 7 other books by Napoleon Hill (Including Selling You!, which offers excerpts from this book). It was actually Selling You! that encouraged me to buy this book. The excerpt on qualifying prospective buyers was just so condensed and direct and useful (like most of Napoleon Hill's writing) that I went to a local book store and browsed through How to Sell Your Way Through Life: Highly Proven to Help Make Millionaires!. The simple fact of the matter is that regardless of how many Napoleon Hill books you own, if you are in Sales...either as your full-time vocation or as the primary driver of new business in your own company...you need this book.

As others have pointed out, the "meat" of the book...what makes it essential...is in Part One:

Definition of Salesmanship
You Need Intelligent Promotion To Succeed
The Strategy of Master Salesmanship
Qualities The Master Salesman Must Develop
Auto-Suggestion, Your First Step In Salesmanship
The Master Mind
Your Improved Concentration
Initiative and Leadership
Qualifying Your Prospective Buyer
Neutralizing Your Buyer's Mind
The Art of Closing the Sale

The above chapters fill the first 136 pages. The remaining half of the book focuses on material largely found in other Hill books such as Think and Grow Rich!: The Original Version, Restored and Revised, as well as advice on choosing / creating your job and time management.

So many modern Sales authors have dipped their cup in Hill's well...Brian Tracy, Zig Ziglar, Jeffrey Gitomer...you probably can't name a single author of merit who has not.

Highly recommended, essential reading.