1. A
PROJECT REPORT ON
NAPOLEON HILL
ROAD TO SUCCESS
Timeless Advice for Today

2. A
Project on
Book Review
In partial fulfilment for the requirements of organizational behaviour course in the two years
Full-Time Master of Business Administration Programme,
Gujarat Technological University.
Submitted By:-
1. GANDHI VAIBHAV (147350592035)
2. RAJPUT MEHUL SINH (147350592086)
3. PRUTHVISH PRAJAPATI (147350592119)
4. RAJPUT JAYANT (147350592127)
5. SHAH SHALONI (147350592136)
Submitted To:-
PROF. JUHI SHAH
25th SEP 2014

3. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:-
We take this opportunity to render our deep sense of gratitude to our seniors, PROF. Juhi
Shah, Assistant Professor, N.R. INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT for her constant and
valuable guidance in the truest sense throughout the course of the work. It was her
encouragement and support from the initial to the final level enabled us to develop an
understanding of the topic. Every time we had a problem, we would rush to her advice, and
she would never ever let us down. Her timely suggestions helped us to circumvent all sorts of
hurdles that we had to face throughout our work. We are deeply indebted for her motivation
and guidance. Thanks go out to all our friends as they have always been around to provide
useful suggestions, companionship and created a peaceful research environment. We wish to
acknowledge the continuous support and blessings of our parents which made this work
possible. Although they were physically far away from us, their immense faith and wish is
gratefully acknowledged. Finally we believe this research experience will greatly benefit our
career in the future.

4. INDEX:-
 Introduction of book
 Summary of book
 Content of the book
 Brief review of the book
 Central theme of the book
 Critical analysis of the ob
Conclusion.

5. Title:-Napoleon Hill’s Road to Success: Timeless Advice for Today
 NAME OF AUTHOR:- NAPOLEON HILL
 NAME OF ORGANIZATION:-The Napoleon Hill Foundation
 FIRST PUBLISHED BY:-4th
March 2011 by Napoleon Hill Foundation
 LANGUAGE:- English
 PUBLISHER OF THE BOOK: Jaico Books
 PLACE OF PUBLISHER: Jaico House, Mumbai, India
 ISBN CODE: 0981951198
 LENGTH OF BOOK: 132 pages
 PRODUCT DIMENSIONS: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
 PRICE: 218/-

6. SUMMARY
 This book is already the summary of Law of Success which was written by the
NAPOLEON HILL in 1928.
 This book teaches life lessons and you discover how to live your life.
 This book is learn about the way to success, habit of the most healthy and successful
man of there era and to document finding future Generation.
 This book gives idea about path of success; Leadership and Power of extend vision.
 Napoleon Hill had in his early chilled hood and spent his life time pursuing that old
age question.
 The book you are about to read will provide you with valuable writing on success.
 The articles in this book are exactly as hill and mountain type, its old manual type
writer. Writing skill is very good.
 The most popular in this book is success! A few have achieved it, everybody wants to
achieve it.
 Thought is the first faculty of men, to express it is one of his first desires. It’s also run
adaptability.
 Second thing is leadership no one invited this young man to become a leader,
Leadership means responsibility and last the power of extended vision. It means
something which you must cultivate.
 To control thought is the secret of all progress of this earth and the power is all if you
exercise it.
 One thing that I was easily able to relate to people who always complaint about their
luck was this
 The plus point of this book is short, fast moving and full of examples.
 There are those who do the right thing only when necessity kick s them from behind,
and these get indifference instead of honors, and a pittance for pay. This kind spends
most of the time polishing a bench with a hard luck story.
 Overall, it is a wonderful read and should be read if you like to read a pure non-fiction
self-help book.

7. CONTENT IN THIS BOOK
I. Road to Success-15 Billboards
1. Desire as a Definite Aim in Life
2. Self-Confidence
3. Initiative
4. Imagination
5. Enthusiasm
6. Action
7. Self-Control
8. Habit of Performing more work than paid For
9. Attractive Personality
10. Accurate Thought
11. Concentration
12. Persistence
13. Learning form Failures
14. Tolerance
15. Applying the Golden Rule
II. Success
III. Leadership
IV. Power of Extended Vision

8. Brief Review of Napoleon Hill’s Road to Success
I. THE ROAD TO SUCCESS-15 BILLBOARDS:-
1. Desire as a Definite Aim in life: Do not underestimate the value of this due to its
simplicity. You need to set an objective before you can achieve it. Not having a solid
aim to focus on cannot possibly get you to it. You have to know what you want so
that you can start receiving it.
2. Self Confidence: Believe that you are worthy of success and that you can attain it.
Without this simple understanding truly understanding it you will probably get
nowhere with most of your goals. If you are not confident, then you cannot sell
yourself in life.
3. Initiative: addresses the importance of leadership skill. Here, hill acknowledge the
the penalties of leadership. Leaders are not always spoken of sweetly. This should not
deter you from becoming a leader. It is only ‘genius “that attracts the attention of
critics. Nobody bothers slandering a person who isn’t somewhere near the upper rings
of the ladder of success.
4. Imagination: Dream, and use your imagination to help lead you to the attainment of
your goals. A Themaking good decision comes with use, and your intuition will
always lead you toward your dream. Dreams and actions are closely related.
5. Enthusiasm: Compels you to act. Mix enthusiasm with your work- does something
you are enthusiastic about- and you will not get tired nearly as quickly. Hill explains
the things that can contribute to enthusiasm, one being to wear nice clothes. Basically,
if you look like a million bucks, you'll feel like a million bucks, and you will likely
find yourself around a million bucks. The opposite is also true, and this is to be
avoided. Feel good about your appearance, because it also affects the first impression
of you on others who can be instrumental in your path to success.
6. Action: In size the man is about a hundred million time larger than the bee, but in
intelligence the bee is about hundred million times longer than the man.
7. Self Control: Auto suggestion is like reprogramming your subconscious mind to
believe what you want it to believe- to replace your old beliefs with new ones that will
serve you better. This takes self control. Have you ever tried to change a habit? It
makes sense. When you take control over the thoughts you are thinking, then you can
take control of your success. Make these thoughts the ones you want to believe, and
See yourself the way you want to see you.

9. 8. Habit of performing More than paid for: If you are going to whine about your
work, then you are not going anywhere. Do the work you have in front of you, then
ask what else you may do. By doing this, you make yourself valuable, and you will
surely reach a point where you are being paid handsomely. Valuable employees are...
valuable. This is also an especially true when you are working for yourself.
9. Attractive personality: Have one. Don't point things out on people, don't hang your
head and say "I’m tired". Mediocrity does not care if you are pleasant or not. Success
does.
10. Accurate Thought: Sort "facts" from "information", and use auto-suggestion in
conjunction with Focused thoughts.
11. Concentration: "Concentration is the act of focusing the mind upon a given desire
until ways and means for its realization have been worked out and successfully put
into operation". That about covers it.
12. Persistence: It is simply habit of completing everything one begins, first having learn
what to begin and what not to begin.
13. Learning from Failure: Yes! Fail, and be happy that it is bringing you one step
closer to success. Failure is inevitable, and it is a great step towards the right
direction. Replace "failure" with "temporary defeat".
14. Tolerance: Don't practice prejudice or racism. It is ignorance, and it is a barrier to
success. Just see the best in people and situations, and focus only on your goal and the
good for all.
15. Applying The Golden Rule: "Do unto others as you wish them to do unto you."
Also, "Think of others as you wish them to think of you."

10. II. SUCCESS:-
 Success - A few have achieved it, everybody wants to achieve it.
 You wish to succeed. It can do you no harm to know that your success must
come through the aid of your own mind; especially the imaginative section of
your mind wherein you build definite plans for the guidance of your physical
activities.
 This book unravels the difficulties and obstacles encountered during the
journey on the Road to Success.
III. LEADERSHIP:-
 Leadership is something which seldom comes by invitation. It is something
which you must invite yourself into. In every business there is a fine opening
for a first-class leader. But, he must be a man who is willing to do the thing
that ought to be done without someone telling him to do it.
 Leadership means responsibilities, but the most profitable work usually is that
which shoulders the greatest responsibility on a man.
 Leadership should become a habit and the leader with humility becomes the
powerful man of action and he is then sought for greater leadership.
 Leadership is a privilege and anybody can be a leader by merely doing the
thing that ought to be done whether you are told to do it or not; whether it is
your job to do it or not; whether you are paid for it or not!
IV. THE POWER OF EXTENDED VISION:-
 Many of our mistakes worked a temporary hardship on others, and all of them
worked an immediate hardship on us, but these mistakes and failures were
profitable, because every one of them caused us to climb up out of the debris
of the failure itself with a broader and more extended vision than we had
before.
 The power of extended vision is the only power on earth, which will help a
person to climb out of the rut of mediocrity in any walk of life.
 The power of extended vision is something which everyone must cultivate
because the happy, contented workmen usually are a mere reflection of the
disposition of the head of the works.
 We are forced to the conclusion that the ability to extend one’s vision except
more of one’s self is not only a desirable quality, but a necessary one!

11. CENTRAL THEME OF THE BOOK
 Napoleon Hill addresses the age old question “Why success has been possible
for some people and seems to elude others?” through his articles titled Road to
Success: Timeless Advice for Today. This was a question that Napoleon Hill
had in his early childhood and spent his lifetime pursuing that question. Hill
sought the answer as to why some are successful and millions are not in a
manner that no one had ever done before.
 Road to Success: Timeless Advice for Today provides with valuable writings
on success. The articles in the book are exactly as Hill typed them on his old
manual typewriter. The articles written more than ninety years ago are as
relevant today as when Hill penned them. The book epitomizes the foundation
required for being successful.
 Sometimes when you are faced with a challenging day at work, my suggestion
is to read famous quotes about success to give you the confidence to
overcome the challenges and succeed.
 Concentration of effort and the habit of working with a definite chief aim are
two of the essential factors in success which are always found together. One
leads to the other.
 It is impossible for obstacles to be completely avoided on your road to
success. Just remember, do not get discouraged and learn from the difficulties
you encounter along the way.
 Do not loose your self-confidence try for your next better action. Planning for
better future.
 It is planned the basic fundas of the lifes, after the failure you learn something
and you again again go for your goal.
 Use your time efficiently and strategize exactly how you will accomplish your
plan. Then when you are ready to take action you will have a step by step, sure
fire way to achieving it.

12. CRITICAL ANALYSIS IN OB VIEW:-
 In this analysis the view of ob is how to think, how to motivate, most of the
failure in front of you, how you solve it.
 Experience is what creates a superior leader. It takes complete dedication and
a resilient attitude to reach any goal. Always make a supreme effort when
confronting the challenges ahead. Your ability to overcome and ultimately
prevail, are true qualities of a successful leader.
 1.Problem Definition
 2. Analysis
 3. Action Planning
 Problem Definition: 1st step to solving an organizational problem is to know
the source of the difficulty.
 The Levels of Problems:
 When you know what gaps exist, it is then important to understand the ways in
which they affect organization.
 Problems affect company in 3 ways.
 1. Within or between certain people
 2. Within or between groups
 3. Within the whole organization
ANALYSIS:-
 In this step we try to understand the causes.
 Why do they exist?
 What environmental factors play a role?
ACTION PLANNING:-
Action plan has six important steps.
 1.Set Specific Goals.
 2. Define activities, Resources Needed, Responsibilities.
 3. Set a Timetable for Action.
 4. Forecast Outcomes, Develop Contingencies.
 5. Formulate a Detailed Plan of Action in time sequence.
 6. Implement, Supervise Execution, and Evaluate Based on Goals in Step one.

13. MOTIVATION:-
It is an elusive animal that all organizations want to capture.
Expectancy theory outlines the factors that produce motivation with
individuals.
Everyone can use expectancy theory to attempt to understand employees’
behavior.
Motivation = Expectation of work will lead to Performance X
Expectation performance will lead to Reward X
Value of Reward
LEADERSHIP:-
Leaders shape goals.
Leaders develop new ideas.
Leaders reach people on an emotional level.
POWER OF EXTENDED VISION:-
They are the no of people in this world-many million all told, we suspect-who
are harnessed and hitched to mediocre ,depressing ,soul crushing work which
merely provide an existence, for no other reason than the lack of extended
vision!

14. CONCLUSION:-
For this teach us life is made up of one long facing of decision-of deciding
promptly or letting the opportunity pass. use your self right think well of yourself,
work hard, yourself controlling power and the willingness to assume heavy
responsibilities. Its also learn habit of performing more work and better than you are
paid to perform. Some accurate decision for success fundas.
And last, we are forced to the conclusion that the ability to extend one’s vision and
expect more of one’s self is not only a desirable quality, but a necessary one.