The Success Bible: The World's Greatest Inspirational Classics Abridged and Introduced by Mitch Horowitz
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IT IS THE MEANING AND EXCELLENCE
YOU BRING TO EACH TASK.
In this vivifying omnibus, historian and popular voice of esoteric spirituality Mitch Horowitz abridges and introduces nearly forty world classics of inspiration, motivation, and successful living.From The Art of War and The Prince to The Power of Your Subconscious Mind and The Magic of Believing, readers will discover time-hallowed methods of powerful living that honor traits of nobility and selfhood versus sneakiness and avarice. The many books in this collection—each introduced by Mitch—offer not sentimentality or myopia but hard-won and realistic guidance for life as it is, not as we idealize it.
Mitch opens the collection with his provocative “101 Rules of Effective Living,” each worthy of a chapter in itself.
“I have no idea whether nice guys finish first, last, or not at all,” Mitch writes in the preface. “But I do know that honor is what builds powerful (not forceful) individuals and sound communities and companies, without which nothing can thrive. I believe this book places the motivated querent on the path to both.”
Features Joseph Murphy, Neville Goddard, Norman Vincent Peale, James Allen, Sun Tzu, Niccolò Machiavelli, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Napoleon Hill, Florence Scovel Shinn, Khalil Gibran, Dale Carnegie, Wallace D. Wattles, James Allen, Andrew Carnegie, and more.
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About the author
One of today’s most acclaimed voices of esoterica, mysticism, and the occult, Mitch Horowitz is a PEN Award-winning historian whose books include Occult America, The Miracle Club, Daydream Believer, Modern Occultism, Happy Warriors, and Practical Magick. A former vice president at Penguin Random House, Mitch has written on alternative spirituality for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Politico, Time, and The Wall Street Journal. A frequent presence in national media, Mitch hosts Discovery/HBO Max’s Alien Encounters; plays himself in Shudder’s V/H/S/Beyond, a 2025 Critics Choice Award nominee for Best Movie Made for Television; and hosts SpectreVision’s podcast Extraordinary Evidence: ESP Is Real. His work is censored in China.
