Top 6 Qualities of Highly Successful People

Top 6 Qualities of Highly Successful People

In this article, I will share 6 qualities of highly successful people as accumulated by Napoleon Hill in his famous book Think and Grow Rich. These traits of successful people can help you as well to be an extraordinary.

This book is the product of 25 years of research and the author interviewed more than 500 men who were highly successful that time. And after research the author identified those qualities which made them highly rich and prominent.

This book helped thousands of people to become successful and rich. This is one of the most selling books in the history.

The author identified and accumulated the best qualities from these people as they were common in all of them. If anyone wants to be great and successful, s/he can follow and implement those traits in life.

These attributes or traits can’t be happened by accident or luck, but they must be cultivated in a proper way if you really want to bring success and happiness in life.

This is a high authority book for self-improvement and effective life. This article is for the people who don’t have time to read the book. I summarised these attributes as revealed by the rich people of last century.

Following are the qualities as exhibited by highly successful people from different fields.

1. Faith or Believe

Believe was a common factor and quality among all of them. They believed they will success and do something different in life.

The author mentioned it was common in Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Bridgestone, and so on in many as he interviewed.

Believe in oneself is the key to success when no one does. In order to achieve anything it requires believing in yourself and visualising yourself as successful.

Many of us listen to critics, when you listen to critics you can’t achieve what you want. Always be persistent in pursuit of your goals and don’t listen to your critics.

As mentioned by Napoleon Hill in the book, ‘whatever the mind can conceive and believe it can achieve’.

Faith or believe is the head chemist of the mind. Your believe, or faith is the element that determines the action of your subconscious mind. Subconscious mind can play an important role in achieving success and happiness.

2. Specialised Knowledge

Napoleon Hill identified two kinds of knowledge;

1. General Knowledge
2. Specialised Knowledge

The persons interviewed by the author they all had specialised knowledge. As in the case of Henry Ford, he specialised in automobiles. Bridgestone specialised in tyre manufacturing. Andrew Carnegie specialised in steel industry. And so on there are hundred of examples of the successful people who had specialised knowledge.

The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge. To be highly successful and extraordinary in life not only requires knowledge but specialised knowledge.

Just having knowledge is not enough, but it must be specialised or an individual must know how to use that knowledge.

They are a lot of people they have great knowledge but they are not aware of using it. Knowledge can not be convert in money unless it is organised and intelligently directed through practical plan of actions towards accumulation of money.

After acquiring knowledge it must be organised and put into use for a definite purpose. The author stated, successful people never stop acquiring specialised knowledge that is related to their purpose, business, or profession.

So, general knowledge doesn't help to accumulate money no matter how great in quantity or variety it is. Knowledge is power when it is used, put in practical, and organised in a proper way.

3. Organised Planning

Success needs organised planning. It is a great step towards riches. This is one of the essentials for becoming successful and effective. It is important for success in any undertaking designed to accumulate riches.

All successful men studied by the author, they all had organised plannings in their lives. To be successful in life we need organised planning. Henry Ford, Thomas Edison and many other failed many many times, but they followed a plan which led them to success.

If one plan fails we must create other rather than to give up and quit our mission and purpose. Henry Ford failed at the beginning of his automobiles career, but he created new plan to achieve his goals.

Many of us quit and give up when it comes temporary failures. In this case we must accept the defeat or failure as a signal that our plans are not sound. We must create new plannings in order to achieve the purpose and goal.

A person who is highly organised and planned becomes easily successful. On the other hand, who is disorganised and unplanned doesn't get success in life. It doesn't mean we need organised planning for something big but we can plan small things in life. And those small plannings determine how successful a person is.

4. Decision Making

The decisions we make in life can lead us to success or failure. The effective and extraordinary people take timely decisions and they get what they want.

On the other hand, many people have lack of decision or they procrastinate decision that leads them to failure.

Lack of decision is one of the 30 major causes of failure as revealed by the author. Procrastination is the opposite of decision that should be conquered by everyone.

The successful people who accumulate millions of dollars all of them had habit of reaching decision promptly and the change process of those decisions was slow if they needed to be changed.

Sometimes, taking wrong decision is better than lack of decision. Timely and prompt decisions can lead us to success.

People who make decisions promptly and definitely, they know what they want and generally get it. Great and successful leaders decide quickly and firmly, therefore they influence people.

For better decisions in life, you have to manage your procrastination habit. It leads to indecision or not taking timely decision.

5. Managing Emotions

Extraordinary people know how to manage emotions. Emotions particularly negative emotions such as anger can be destructive if not channelised in a better way.

The author studied autobiographies of hundreds of years of different people and he mentioned, many of the people succeeded because they manage their emotions in a positive way.

Naturally two emotions are very important and those emotions are love and anger. These two emotions have the power to destroy or create someone.

The important point is how to manage these emotions in a positive way. All the successful people use emotions as driving force to achieve anything in life. For example, if you don’t know how to cope with your anger, it will hurt you rather than someone else.

First, to understand your emotions then understanding the emotions of other people can lead you toward success and effective life. Managing emotions in a positive way make you creative.

6. Managing Fear

Fear is one of the obstacles comes in the way of success. The author refers it ‘ghost of fear’. Almost everyone suffers from fear in life.

Highly successful people know how to manage their fear effectively in life. The most common fears are; fear of poverty, fear of criticism, fear of ill health, fear of loss of love of someone, fear of old age, and fear of death.

Fear is state of mind and nothing more. This is fear where we don’t take decision, and fear stops us from doing something different.

For example, many people don’t take a step to do something different because they have fear of criticism. They think if don’t get success the people will label me as a failure.

So, to be successful you need to manage your fears. The highly successful people managed their fears in a better way.

Conclusion

As we discussed the top 6 qualities of highly successful people that led them to great success. These steps are very practical and easy to implement in life.

If you want to be successful and effective in life then these steps for you to follow. This is the extract and gist of the research which was completed in 25 years.

This book made a lot of millionaires and you could be the next one.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

What are the most important qualities of a successful person?

As mentioned in the article;

• Faith or Believe
• Specialised Knowledge
• Organised Planning
• Decision Making
• Managing Emotions
• Managing Fears

How do you describe a successful person?

I think, the best way to describe a successful person, a person who has a purpose in life and put all energies to achieve it.