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50 success classics

Written by Wei-Jing Zhu

Monday, 30 April 2007
In addition to success in wealth, many titles stress the importance of meaning in life. I have not heard of many of these famous people or authors. In this memo I jot down the list from the author's site, my summary, and other people's summaries.

50 Success Classics

1.	Horatio Alger Ragged Dick (1867)
2.	Warren Bennis On Becoming A Leader (1989)
3.	Frank Bettger How I Raised Myself From Failure To Success in Selling (1947)
4.	Kenneth Blanchard & Spencer Johnson The One Minute Manager (1981)
5.	Edward Bok The Americanization of Edward Bok (1921)
6.	Claude M Bristol The Magic of Believing (1948)
7.	Andrew Carnegie Autobiography (1920)
8.	Chin-ning Chu Thick Face Black Heart (1992)
9.	George S Clason The Richest Man in Babylon (1926)
10.	Robert Collier Secrets of the Ages (1926)
11.	Jim Collins Good To Great (2001)
12.	Russel H Conwell Acres of Diamonds (1921)
13.	Stephen R Covey The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (1989)
14.	Michael Dell Direct From Dell (1999)
15.	Henry Ford My Life and Work (1922)
16.	Benjamin Franklin The Way To Wealth (1758)
17.	Timothy Gallwey The Inner Game of Tennis (1974)
18.	Robin Gerber Leadership The Eleanor Roosevelt Way (2003)
19.	John Paul Getty How To Be Rich (1961)
20.	Les Giblin How to Have Power and Confidence In Dealing With People (1956)
21.	Baltasar Gracian The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647)
22.	Earl G Graves How To Succeed in Business Without Being White (1997)
23.	Napoleon Hill Think and Grow Rich (1937)
24.	Napoleon Hill & W Clement Stone Success With a Positive Mental Attitude (1960)
25.	Tom Hopkins The Official Guide to Success (1982)
26.	Muriel James & Dorothy Jongeward Born To Win (1971)
27.	Spencer Johnson Who Moved My Cheese? (1998)
28.	Robert Kiyosaki Rich Dad, Poor Dad (1997 )
29.	David Landes The Wealth and Poverty of Nations (1998)
30.	Jim Loehr & Tony Schwartz The Power of Full Engagement (2003)
31.	Roger Lowenstein Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist (1995)
32.	Nelson Mandela Long Walk To Freedom (1994 )
33.	Orison Swett Marden Pushing To The Front (1894)
34.	JW Marriott Jnr The Spirit To Serve (1997)
35.	Margot Morrell & Stephanie Capparell Shackleton's Way (2001)
36.	Donald T Phillips Lincoln On Leadership (1992)
37.	Catherine Ponder The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity (1962)
38.	Cheryl Richardson Take Time For Your Life (1998)
39.	Anthony Robbins Unlimited Power (1986)
40.	David Schwartz The Magic of Thinking Big (1959 )
41.	Florence Scovell Shinn Secret Door to Success (1940)
42.	Thomas J Stanley The Millionaire Mind (2000)
43.	Brian Tracy Maximum Achievement (1993)
44.	Sun Tzu The Art of War (4 th century BCE)
45.	Sam Walton Made in America (1992)
46.	Wallace Wattles The Science of Getting Rich (1910)
47.	Jack Welch Jack: Straight From the Gut (2001)
48.	John Whitmore Coaching For Performance (1992)
49.	Richard Wiseman The Luck Factor (2003)
50.	Zig Ziglar See You At The Top (1975)

My notes:
Richest man of Babelon: The principle of "pay yourself first" is in essence to prioritize, to do the important thing first.

Prayer and beliefs are self fulfilling. Picturing your success works because we are planning subconsciously.

Wallace Wattles "The Science of Getting Rich" is a great work to follow up on, see online version.

My summary of success factors:

higher purpose, vision
honorable way to succeed (create, rather than compete)
appreciate and manage resources wisely: time, energy, people
the journey is as much as the goal: treasure the people and relationship
think big and dream big
visualize the situation of success: prepare for it.

These are necessary but not sufficient. Without these, you can't succeed.
i.e. lacking these are signs for failure. No guaranttee if you have these.

What others say:

Dreamjobs Dialogs remarks:
The author organized his book around four sub-categories within the success genre:

Motivation
Fulfilling your potential
Prosperity
Leadership

and indicate examples of each category.

Amazon reviewer says:

TOP TEN LAWS OF SUCCESS: LESSONS FROM THE GREAT WORKS OF SUCCESS ON HOW TO SUCCEED AND ACHIEVE

OPTIMISM
Optimism is power. This is a secret discovered by all who succeed against great odds. Nelson Mandela, Ernest Shackleton, Eleanor Roosevelt--each admitted that what got them through tough times was an ability to focus on the positives. They understood what Claude Bristol called "the magic of believing." Yet great leaders also have an unusual ability to face up to stark realities and, as a result, create a single powerful attribute: tough-minded optimism. Optimistic people tend to succeed not simply because they believe all will turn out right but because the expectation of success makes them work harder. If you expect little, you will not be motivated to even try.

DEFINITE AIM, PURPOSE OR VISION
Have higher aims and goals and doggedly pursue their realization. Success requires concentration of effort. Most people disperse their energies over too many things and fail to be outstanding in anything as a result. In the words of Orison Swett Marden, "The world does not demand that you be a lawyer, minister, doctor, farmer, scientist, or merchant; it does not dictate what you shall do, but it does require that you be a master in whatever you undertake."

WILLINGNESS TO LABOR
Successful people are willing to engage in drudgery in the cause of something marvelous. The greater part of `genius' is the years of effort to solve a problem or find the perfect expression of an idea. With hard work you acquire knowledge about yourself which idleness never reveals. A law of success is that once first achieved it can create a momentum that makes it easier to sustain. As Talleyrand put it, "Nothing succeeds like success."

DISCIPLINE
Enduring success is built on discipline, an appreciation that you must give yourself orders and then obey them. Like compound interest, this subject may be boring but its results--in the long-term--can be spectacular. Great achievers know that while the universe is built by atoms, success is built by minutes. They are masters when it comes to managing their time.

INTEGRATED MIND
Successful people have a good relationship with their unconscious and subconscious minds. They trust their intuition, and because intuitions are usually right, they seem to enjoy more luck than others. They have discovered one of the great success secrets: the non-rational mind infallibly solves problems and creates solutions when trusted to do so.

PROLIFIC READING
Look into the habits of the successful and you will find that they are usually great readers. Many of the leaders and authors profiled in 50 Success Classics attribute the turning point in their lives to picking up a particular book. If you can read about the accomplishments of those you admire, you cannot help but lift your own sights. Anthony Robbins remarked that "success leaves clues," and reading is one of the best means of absorbing such clues. Curiosity and the capacity to learn are vital for achievement, thus the saying "leaders are readers." The person who seeks growth, Dale Carnegie said, "must soak and tan his mind constantly in the vats of literature."

RISK-TAKING
The greater the risk, the greater the potential success. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Have a bias for action!

THE POWER OF EXPECTATION
Successful people expect the best--and they generally get it! Expectations have a way of attracting to us their material equivalent. Since our lives correspond closely to the expectations we have of it, the achiever will argue, "why not think big instead of small?"

MASTERY
Advanced beings can turn any situation to their advantage. They are "masters of their souls, captains of their fate." When other parties are involved, star achievers will seek solutions that benefit everyone. In the words of Catherine Ponder: "You do not have to compromise in life if you are willing to let go of the idea of compromise."

WELL-ROUNDEDNESS
Achievements mean little if we are not successful as a person. The capacities to love, listen, and learn are vital for our own well being. Without them it is difficult to have the fulfilling relationships that we need to both renew us and inspire achievement.

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