The New Think & Grow Rich: An Unauthorized Re-Presentation of Napoleon Hill's Success Classic [Paperback]

Ted Ciuba (Author), Napoleon Hill (Author)

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Publication Date: October 1, 2006

The ?Next Generation? in the science of personal achievement takes yesterday's classic and brings it into the new age with female, intercultural, international, and Quantum sensitivity.

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About the Author

As a budding twenty-year old in Los Angeles in 1971, Ciuba found his first copy of Napoleon Hill's famous Think And Grow Rich in an old, dimly lit, mysterious used bookstore at the top of a long climb.. Seedtime was long.. Though they had him in preparation all the while, he didn't recognize his destiny on The NEW Think And Grow Rich project till a near-death experience in the Dominican Republic struck the wake up gong..True to their turning, both, in their "settled" adult life turned out as persons of words and influence..Both turned out to be a journalist, author, teacher, and speaker. Both wrote and published a number of books. To make their living in a commercially viable field, both finally found themselves, with their word expertise, in the copywriting and info products profession, and, as such, became salesmen, businessmen, marketers, and promoters. Neither ever lost his passion for investigation, writing, teaching, and speaking. One final similarity..separated by 69 years..

NAPOLEON HILL was born into poverty in 1883. He worked his way through law school and became an eminent attorney and journalist, an advisor to Franklin Roosevelt, and a confidant to Andrew Carnegie. Since 1982 the Napoleon Hill Foundation, a nonprofit educational organization, has revived his writings, winning him an immense international audience.

Product Details

• Paperback: 244 pages
• Publisher: Morgan James Publishing (October 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 097585707X
• ISBN-13: 978-0975857076
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #775,097 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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http://ThinkRich.com - Nashville TN Ted Ciuba is a sales performer who, after a stint as a business communications professor at California State University, rose to prominence as America's Foremost Internet Marketing Consultant in the dawning of the Internet Age, who then, following his passions and his skill sets in this shifting techno-multi-touch new reality has emerged as the World's TOP Quantum Business Acceleration coach.

It was circling the globe as the original founder of World Internet Summit ( http://TheWorldInternetSummit.com ) he began earnestly teaching the principles of Think And Grow Rich only to discover many readers struggled with the archaic language and attitudes in the original classic. So, visited by Napoleon Hill himself, at great personal expense, he accepted and fulfilled the mandate to modernize and empower the classic to today's modern age.

Ted Ciuba is also the author of or contributor to hundreds of other articles, books and programs, including Mail Order In The Internet Age, How To Get Rich On The Internet, and the Sub 4 Minute Extra Mile Series of books, and principal of http://AutoPilotRiches.com , the world's premier integrated ecommerce solution.

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Overall, a good update. But too much personal advertising., October 28, 2007

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Philip Riggs (Fort Collins, Colorado USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The New Think & Grow Rich: An Unauthorized Re-Presentation of Napoleon Hill's Success Classic (Paperback)

When I read Napolean Hill's original I found myself wanting more contemporary examples as well as the historic giants. I am half-way through this version. Although I like contemporary examples presented in this book and, overall, the updates to language, etc. I am hestitant to recommend it because it too often reads like an adverstisment. For example, on the bottom of every page is the advertisement "BONUS! 3 FREE Wealth-Building Gifts Worth $97 at ***.com". Once on a cover page or at the end would do. But every page? Inserted into the text are frequent advertisements to visit this same website to browse for more information. Then it seems that the only current idea worth pursuing as presented by this book is the internet. About which, by the way, you can find more information at the author's website.

I also found myself bothered by the author's rant in chapter 6 against "radicals", "racketeers", "dishonest politicians", "crooked labor leaders", "religious leaders" and any form of socialization to help the poor because they are "deadbeat" welfare beneficiaries. The author puts for the thesis that captialistic economics cannot be "swayed, influenced, or bribed by racketeers, lobbyisists, or self-appointed leaders in any calling." Predatory practices are brought to light and prosecuted every day by the people the author denigrates, most practicies being targeted at the poor and elderly. The thing I appreciated about "Your Money or Your Life" by Dominguez and Robin, another pathway to financial freedom, is their focus on social concerns hand in hand with improvement of you financial position. Perhaps the author is a strong supporter of private concerns and only has a problem with government socialization. But I found the lack of a presentation about social awareness and the only way to benefit society is by capitalistic production and personal profit problematic. After all, Benjamin Franklin donated what could have been a very lucrative invention the lightening rod to society to benefit all men.

So if you want a more contemporary version of "Think and Grow Rich", read this book for the good, updated information. Ignore the interuptive advertisements. Then read "Your Money or Your Life" by Dominguez and Robin to figure out why you want to be rich and what to do with your wealth after.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Synergy of Two Centuries & Two Minds, December 5, 2006

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Tom Justin "Tomshere" (Las Vegas, NV) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The New Think & Grow Rich: An Unauthorized Re-Presentation of Napoleon Hill's Success Classic (Paperback)

When Think and Grow Rich was first published in 1937 it was an expose of the the secrets of millionaires. Napoleon Hill was, in essence, a reporter, commissioned to find the common denominator of the most successful people of that time.

It was breathtaking. America was certainly the land of opportunity, but that opportunity was to exist in a free market through mostly back breaking labor. Then, on the heels of the Great American Depression comes this book! Instantly it began changing lives for the better.

Someone once told me that it was estimated that billions of dollars were since created by the army of men and women who read and practiced at least some of what was written in the original "Think and Grow Rich." That book changed the world, even as the world changed.

Readers took most of it on faith. Today, science and psychology as well as solid results over the years, proves to us that these principles work. But, the original work is clearly outdated. We no longer have to take it on faith. There are also many more applications available.

Also, the book was written for the time and sensibilities of white male, mostly middle-class American. It was framed in the predominate uni-culture of the day where success was a closed door to most others. Of course, over the years, as Western culture became more enlightened, all could read and apply these powerful principles of success.

However, it took a man like Ted Ciuba, a man who saw mostly poverty until his early 40's, to bring the three dimensional 21st Century applications of these principles to life. His life turned around as result of reading the original. He became a multi-millionaire as guided by the techniques and attitudes he read about in TGR. He also began a new career of showing others the "secrets" of wealth creation.

To make this a 21st Century classic, Ciuba pulled together the most updated and modern research that backs this work. He was able to do this all the while keeping it amazingly readable and designed so that anyone could begin applying the techniques from the first chapter on.

The original version changed my life and perspective as a naive 20-year-old, fresh out of North Dakota. The 21st Century version is proving to be equally life changing in a whole new way. This is a must for anyone tired of the rat race or of the prospect of joining same.

Tom Justin

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13 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I will enjoy this book for the rest of my life, December 5, 2006

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This review is from: The New Think & Grow Rich: An Unauthorized Re-Presentation of Napoleon Hill's Success Classic (Paperback)

I've read the old THINK AND GROW RICH many times and wondered about the outdated language and references. Wasn't there someone maintaining the work of Napoleon Hill and presenting it in a way future generations would understand and embrace?

Fortunately, I've found Ted Ciuba's THE NEW THINK AND GROW RICH. I replaced my tired old copies with this wonderful new work. All of the best of the original are there, but Ted has added to the book with newer languages and fixed a few outdated references, making the subject more approachable.

All the principles are intact, enhanced with new insights and examples learned in the 100 years since Napoleon Hill started the project. This is the version I will read next time, and for many years to come.