Napoleon Hill (1883-1970) was the first big "self help-get rich" author. His ideas can be heard echoing from pulpits on TV with the "prosperity gospel" preachers of today.
Mr. Hill put it this way in his best selling book from 1937 Think and Grow Rich:
"If you truly desire money so keenly that your desire is an obsession, you will have no difficulty in convincing yourself that you will acquire it. The object is to want money, and to be so determined to have it that you convince yourself that you will have it. . . You may as well know, right here, that you can never have riches in great quantities unless you work yourself into a white heat of desire for money, and actually believe you will possess it."
Paul puts it this way:
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"If you truly desire money so keenly that your desire is an obsession, you will have no difficulty in convincing yourself that you will acquire it. The object is to want money, and to be so determined to have it that you convince yourself that you will have it. . . You may as well know, right here, that you can never have riches in great quantities unless you work yourself into a white heat of desire for money, and actually believe you will possess it."
Paul puts it this way:
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after,
they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many
sorrows.
1 Timothy 6:10
