The Success Canon

Category

Wealth

Books and talks about money, work, and getting rich.

  1. 01 The Science of Getting Rich Wallace D. Wattles · 1910 Wattles's short book treating a way of thinking as a method for getting rich.
  2. 02 Acres of Diamonds Russell H. Conwell · 1915 Conwell's famous lecture, arguing that the opportunity people chase is often already around them.
  3. 03 The Art of Money Getting P. T. Barnum Barnum's short list of rules for earning and keeping money.
  4. 04 The Gospel of Wealth, and Other Timely Essays Andrew Carnegie · 1900 Carnegie's essays on wealth, including the argument that a rich person should give surplus money away with care.
  5. 05 Think and Grow Rich Napoleon Hill · 1937 The short book that put Hill's success method in front of a mass audience.
  6. 06 The Law of Success Napoleon Hill · 1928 copy Hill's long course on success, the book that came before Think and Grow Rich.
  7. 07 The Richest Man in Babylon George S. Clason · 1926 copy Clason's parables about saving, paying yourself first, and learning a skill.
  8. 08 Seven Strategies for Wealth and Happiness Jim Rohn · 1988 Rohn's short book of strategies for money and for the kind of life he thought was worth having.
  9. 09 You Were Born Rich Bob Proctor · 1984 Proctor's book on wealth as a way of thinking, from a teacher who started with Napoleon Hill.