"Whatever your mind can conceive and believe it can achieve."-Napoleon Hill

American born Napoleon Hill is considered to have influenced more people

into success than any other person in history.He has been perhaps the most

influential man in the area of personal success technique development,primarily

through his classic book Think and Grow Rich which has helped million of the

people and has been important in the life of many successful people such as W.

Clement Stone and Og Mandino.

Napoleon Hill was born into poverty in 1883 in a one-room cabin on the Pound

River in Wise County,Virginia.At the age of 10 his mother died,and two years

later his father remarried.He became a very rebellious boy,but grew up to be an

incredible man.He began his writing career at age 13 as a"mountain reporter"for

small town newspapers and went on to become America's most beloved

motivational author.Fighting against all class of great disadvantages and

pressures,he dedicated more than 25 years of his life to define the reasons by

which so many people fail to achieve true financial success and happiness in their

life.

During this time he achieved great success as an attorney and journalist.His

early career as a reporter helped finance his way through law school.He was

given an assignment to write a series of success stories of famous men,and his

big break came when he was asked to interview steel-magnate Andrew Carnegie.

Mr.Carnegie commissioned Hill to interview over 500 millionaires to find a

success formula that could be used by the average person.These included Thomas

Edison,Alexander Graham Bell,Henry Ford,Elmer Gates,Charles M.Schwab,

Theodore Roosevelt,William Wrigley Jr,John Wanamaker,WIlliam Jennings

Bryan,George Eastman,Woodrow Wilson,William H.Taft,John D.Rockefeller,

F.W.Woolworth,Jennings Randolph,among others.

He became an advisor to Andrew Carnegie,and with Carnegie's help he

formulated a philosophy of success,drawing on the thoughts and experience of a

multitude of rags-to-riches tycoons.It took Hill over 20 years to produce his

book,a classic in the Personal Development field called Think and Grow Rich.

This book has sold over 7 million copies and has helped thousands achieve

success.

The secret to success is very simple but you'll have to read the book to find outwhat it is!

Napoleon Hill passed away in November 1970 after a long and successful

career writing,teaching,and lecturing about the principles of success.His work

stands as a monument to individual achievement and is the cornerstone of modern

motivation.His book,Think and Grow Rich,is the all time best-seller in the field.

Perhaps no other success book has influenced more people than Napoleon

Hill's Classic Think and Grow Rich.Since it's introduction in 1937,millions of

copies have been sold around the world.It still remains one of the top selling

books of its kind.

Several years ago I came across a biography of Hill on a PBS show and it was

an eye-opening adventure into the life of a man whose days were not the smooth

sailing I had always assumed they were.

Napoleon struggled against a myriad of obstacles throughout his life many of

which were brought on by some of the earlier choices he had made.I can't count

the number of times he became broke and penniless following a highly successful

venture gone sour.His personal life was as spotted as his financial life and a

recounting of that could easily consume a full book.

I would have thought that my discovery of his many flaws would cause me to

lose respect for him,and thus doubt the veracity of his teachings that have

influenced me for more than twenty years.But it is quite the opposite.Having

listened to the struggles of this very human man has given me a whole new

perspective of respect,even awe,of the incredible resilience and persistence that

he displayed repeatedly against sometimes massive odds.

I now understand that he didn't write about some theory of how to think and

grow rich.He wrote from experience his numerous experiences and the

experiences of America's most successful.

While the casual observer would believe that this book is only about making

money,those of us who have studied it for years know otherwise.It's about a

better way to live a rich life.And for that I am grateful that Napoleon gave so

much of himself in order that he might leave us with this incredible work.
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