The time they [people] spend in fearing something would, if reversed, give them all they want in the material world and save them from me after death.” Going into his fictitious interview with evil incarnate, Hill already knew one of the primary tools in the devil’s belt: fear. A few years earlier, Hill had received a death threat. He ended up hiding with relatives for over a year, paralyzed. One night, he finally went outside and found what Carnegie had told him about years before: Analyze temporary defeat, no matter of what nature or cause, and extract from it the seed of an equivalent advantage.

See, it’s not enough that “the law of attraction” or faith can work for you, get you out of debt or poverty, or even help people. From a salvation and eternal standpoint, it must be used in a connected love relationship with God. You can speak with the devil, i have done myself, but originally tried to make me believe he was God. From what ive heard and read of the book so far its pretty legit sounding to me, i believe it is the devil same entity i spoke with if not the actually devil then a demon… I don't agree with this becoming a film itself, but I do feel that the devil in this form would make an interesting antagonist.

Recognize that your mind communicates with infinite intelligence and helps you transmute your desires into reality. Show me what any person loves most and I will have my cue as to how that person can be induced to drift until I bind him with hypnotic rhythm. It is a sin to permit one’s mind to be dominated by negative thoughts of envy, greed, fear, hatred, intolerance, vanity, self-pity, or discouragement because these states of mind lead to the habit of drifting. Undesirable habits can be broken. They must be broken before they assume the proportions of rhythm. Are you following me?

I will speak first of the principle of habit, through which I silently enter the minds of people. By operating through this principle, I establish (I wish I could avoid using this word) the habit of drifting. It’s important to note that the ‘Devil’ in the book is a metaphorical representation of negative influences in life and not necessarily a literal entity.Throughout the book, Napoleon Hill stresses the importance of independent thinking and self-reliance.