"As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." Proverbs 23:7

"Repetition of affirmations of orders to your subconscious mind is the only known method of voluntary development of the emotion of faith." Why did Napoleon Hill make this powerful statement early in his classic 1937 book Think and Grow Rich? Hill was the first author to introduce "the science of personal achievement" to the business world. He studied over 500 highly successful entrepreneurs in the early 1900s (including Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, and John D. Rockefeller ... these were no flash-in-the-pan characters!) and concluded that each had what he called a "success consciousness"