Sam Parr
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I need you to go out and talk to 500 people, the most successful people on earth.
And I need you to tell me what made them successful because I want the world to know about this gospel.
They have to know what makes people successful.
And I need you to study them for the next 20 years.
And I will help fund it.
I will help make this a reality.
Will you do that?
And Napoleon goes, hell yeah, brother, I am in.
This sounds like the world's greatest mission.
Let's do it.
And so Andrew Carnegie introduces them to Henry Ford.
They introduce them to John Rockefeller, also one of the richest men in the world, and even introduce them to Woodrow Wilson, and then FDR, the presidents of the United States.
And Napoleon Hill spends a decade or two writing this book, and it becomes They Can Grow Rich, and it basically distills down all of the amazing stuff that makes someone successful.
And it goes even further.
After this book, because Napoleon Hill got to meet all these presidents, he basically was there when Woodrow Wilson negotiated the end of World War I. And he helped give Woodrow Wilson the speech that he needed to convince Germany to back down.
And then it goes even further.
Do you remember the famous line from FDR?
He says, the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
You remember that line?
Right.