Think and Grow Rich is one of those books you see most often on the recommended reading list of people who have achieved really great things. The book was written by the commission of Andrew Carnegie. Based on interviews of over 500 people in history who now we know as great men in the early 20th century, he’s commissioned this book. He interviewed people, such as Henry Ford, J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, Theodore Roosevelt, Wilbur Wright, Howard Taft. This book is amazing. I read it so long ago. It was first published in 1937. It has sold more than 70 million copies. It gives it the distinction of being the all-time best-seller in the personal success category.

Today’s episode is about Think and Grow Rich for real estate investors. The perfect person to bring on for this is a person who I know and respect, a friend of mine. His name is Mani Vaya. Mani is the founder of 2000Books.com where he interviews some of today’s top authors. Over the last five years, Mani has read over 1,000 books in the field of business and personal development. Get this, over the last few years, he has been reading seven books a week, which basically averages out to one book per day.

The first book that revolutionized his thinking was Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich. As a real estate investor, it made sense to bring him on to talk about the book and how it ties in with real estate investing.

If you missed our last episode, be sure to listen to Proper Estate Planning for Real Estate Investors.

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Think and Grow Rich for Real Estate Investors
Mani, welcome to the show.

Hey, Marco. Thank you very much for having me. I’m so delighted to be here.

It’s great having you on. I enjoy your podcast. I wish I had the amount of time to read books as you do. It’s awesome.

Books are my love. I spend a lot of time reading and learning. That’s why this business is here.

How did you get started with 2000Books.com?

Let me go a little bit back in time. I didn’t always start off as being the book reader. I am from India originally. I’m a physics guy. I studied physics, then I moved on to study electrical and computer engineering. I had my career in engineering for a long time. I was managing billion-dollar plus cell phone design projects, cell phone launches. Until at some point, I decided that I had to move on and create my own success, create my own definition of success, create my own entrepreneurial venture. It was brewing inside of me. But at some point, I had to let go.

2000 Books came as a result of me wanting to continue down this path of learning that had been brewing in my mind for a while.

2000 Books came as a result of me wanting to continue down this path of learning that had been brewing in my mind for a while. Think and Grow Rich was one of the seminal books that got me started in the whole field of personal development. Before that, I did not really understand it. Or maybe I had used the principles in my life, but I didn’t even know that I was using principles that had been written about 50, 60, 70, 100 years ago, 200 years ago at some point. These were just some things I had picked up or somehow I had known, and again and again, they would show up as truths in my life. Think and Grow Rich, when I read the book, I was like, “I have been using this for so long.” 2000 Books came about a year and a half ago when I said, “I want to dedicate my life at this point to learning from these books, to teaching entrepreneurs about all the great books that are out there and publishing all that info...