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Napoleon Hill

Napoleon Hill

The 20th-century writer whose Think and Grow Rich, drawn from interviews with Carnegie, Edison, and hundreds of other successful figures, remains the most-read success book in history. The source code for most of the self-development literature that followed.

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Born 1883 in a log cabin in Virginia. At twenty-five, as a young journalist, he was sent to interview Andrew Carnegie — then the richest man on earth. The interview lasted three days, at the end of which Carnegie gave him a commission: spend the next twenty years studying the most successful people in America and extract the pattern.

Hill took the assignment. Over the next two decades he interviewed more than five hundred industrialists, inventors, and presidents — Edison, Ford, Rockefeller, Wilson, Roosevelt. In 1937, at the bottom of the Depression, he published Think and Grow Rich.

It has sold over a hundred million copies. Nearly every self-development book written since is downstream of it. He died in 1970, still writing.

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Success Through A Positive Mental Attitude

The PMA principles — how a positive mental attitude is the single most important success factor and how to cultivate it.

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The Law of Success in 16 Lessons

Hill's complete original 1925/27 masterwork — the unexpurgated foundation from which Think and Grow Rich was distilled.

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The Master Key to Riches

Hill's 1945 distillation of the success philosophy he had refined for two decades after Think and Grow Rich. Twelve riches, the master mind principle, and the habit of going the extra mile — written in his most direct voice.

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Think and Grow Rich

The most-read success book in history — 13 principles of achievement distilled from Napoleon Hill's interviews with 500 of America's most successful people. Desire, faith, and the mastermind principle, as true today as in 1937.

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