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The Russell Brunson Show

Discovering Laws of Success From The Book That Inspired Napoleon Hill | #Success - Ep. 69

The Russell Brunson Show

Russell Brunson

Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.8982 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

In this vault episode of The Russell Brunson Show, I share one of the rarest book sets I’ve ever purchased: Allen’s Working Plan, written by Irving Allen nearly a decade before Napoleon Hill published The Law of Success. This ten-volume set was sold through direct mail in the early 1900’s, and it gives us a fascinating look at what business leaders and marketers were studying long before Hill’s ideas took off. I’ll tell the story of how I discovered this set, why I paid $30,000 for it, and what makes it such a powerful piece of history. You’ll also hear the lessons that stood out most to me… Lessons that still apply today if you want to seize opportunities, build confidence, and lead others. Key Highlights: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠◼️ How optimism, positivity, and even a healthy ego give entrepreneurs the edge to lead and win ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠◼️ The Andrew Carnegie quote that explains why belief in yourself (even in private) is critical for success ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠◼️ The concept of “cycling” instead of failure, and why great entrepreneurs must go through it ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠◼️ The balance between humility outwardly and the inner belief that you’re superior when competing in business This book reminded me that success isn’t just about tactics. It’s about mindset! The daily recognition of opportunity, the willingness to stay humble, and the inner drive to believe you can win. These timeless lessons gave me clarity and fuel for my own journey, and I think they can do the same for you. If you want my full notes on Allen’s Working Plan, including the best takeaways from each booklet, go to russellbrunson.com/notes to grab them for free!! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠◼️ If you’ve got a product, offer, service… or idea… I’ll show you how to sell it (the RIGHT way)  Register for my next event →⁠ https://sellingonline.com/podcast⁠ ◼️Still don’t have a funnel? ClickFunnels gives you the exact tools (and templates) to launch TODAY → ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://clickfunnels.com/podcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:02.1

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0:07.1

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0:14.7

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0:17.9

This is the Russell Brunson show.

0:22.6

Be successful. You have to have an ego. If you don't have an ego, it's hard to do the things you need to be successful. Think about business, you are stepping out into a stage, right, where you've got thousands of other people competing for your audience's attention. Like, why should they listen to you? And if you struggle with that, like, well, I don't know, why should they listen to me? Like, if you don't have, yes, confidence, yes, positive amount to, but having that egotism, which most people won't ever talk about, but if you don't have that, it's really difficult for you to create a movement, to get people to move, to follow, where you can actually change their life. okay with the healthy egotism, like having that because it's the thing that gives you

0:55.7

the edge to actually win the battle that we call business. Hey, this is Russell. Welcome back to The Vault. Today I've got a really cool book set. I guarantee you've never seen before. I've never seen it. And the story about how I got it is really fascinating. I will tell you how much I spent for, but first I got to tell you story about how I got it.

1:10.0

Last December, I was actually at my son's wrestling tournament in Reno, Nevada.

1:13.0

It was the Reno Tournament of Champions. I will tell you how much I spent for, but first I got to tell you story about how I got it. Last December, I was actually at my son's wrestling tournament in Reno, Nevada.

1:12.6

It was the Reno tournament of champions, and I was there, watched my son coaching him. He did amazing. And then that night, one of the guys I buy a lot of books from saw that I was in Reno. He's like, I'm 45 minutes away. Can I come see you? I've never met him before. We've done a lot of deals through text messaging.

1:26.4

And so his name's Milton and Milton drove out.

1:28.7

And of course, he showed up with a car full of old books and things to sell me. Oh, there's planning on that. So we pulled up his car and we ended up pulling, I don't know, 100 different books and things into the lobby of the hotel. It's a little bit awkward. And you show me all the different things. And there are of cool books but this was one I was like what is this like it just it looked cool

1:46.7

It was unique. It was different the book set is called Allen's working plan Comprising the 10 Basic Laws of Success. This is a book set that was sold through direct mail in the early 1900s and I just recently purchased just Napoleon Hill's Law of Success.

1:59.5

First edition, I spent $1.5 million on that.

2:02.1

You may have seen one of the videos

2:03.4

to be talking about it, And so I was really excited. And he showed me this. He said, this right here is called the 10 basic laws of success. He's like, and this was written before Napoleon Hill wrote his laws of success. He's like, there's actually evidence Napoleon Hill worked with Irving Allen, who's the author of these books. And he's like, I think that Napoleon got a lot of his ideas from this book set.

2:20.8

And I was like, what in the world?

2:22.1

And so he told me the good story about it.

2:24.4

And I was so excited.

2:25.6

And I asked, like, how much you want for this book set?

2:27.7

He's like, well, it's one of one.

2:28.6

There's none other out there.

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