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“The most important ingredient of success is belief in yourself.”
~Napoleon Hill
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In 1952, Napoleon Hill and his wife were living in California and enjoying semi-retirement. This was the year that Napoleon gave a lecture to a dental convention and a Hill admirer was introduced to him. This admirer, W. Clement Stone, started with $100, formed an insurance company and eventually his wealth grew to hundreds of millions of dollars.
Mr. Stone’s business career had followed the success philosophy as Hill wrote about in his classic book, Think and Grow Rich. Stone thought so much of the philosophy that he gave every employee in his company a copy of the book.
At this meeting in 1952, Stone challenged Napoleon Hill to come out of retirement to promote the success principles, which Hill agreed to provided Stone would be his general manager. An agreement that was only supposed to last five years, lasted ten.
Hill and Stone held many meetings to overflow crowds in teaching the success principles. They traveled broadly, even outside the United States to places such as New Zealand, Australia, and Puerto Rico.
During this time, Hill did radio programs in various cities as well as at a television station. One of the radio programs was in Jackson, Mississippi in 1953. Fortune would have it that the programs were recorded on tape, which has since been converted to CDs and transcribed. The programs are to be published in a series of books called Napoleon Hill is on the Air. The first of the books is The Five Foundations of Success. Grand Harbor Press Division of Amazon will release the first book on March 14, 2017 and it is now available on Amazon as a preorder.
Hill considers the “Big 5” of the seventeen success principles in this book. This book also has an introduction by Dr. Charles Johnson, Napoleon’s nephew. It was Napoleon Hill who paid for Charlie to attend medical school, and though Charlie is in his eighties, he continues to practice as a cardiologist today. Dr. Hill was a fatherly figure to young Charlie, and Charlie affectionately refers to Napoleon as “Uncle Nap.” Dr. Johnson, in his remarks about the Napoleon Hill Foundation, says “Uncle Nap would be proud.”
The best to you at whatever you do!
~ Don Green
Executive Director
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The Napoleon Hill Foundation PMA Distance Learning Course
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“Any business whose management has the foresight to adopt a policy which consolidates management, employees and the public it serves in a spirit of team work, provides itself with an insurance policy against failure.” ~Napoleon Hill
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“An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.
~ Madeleine L’Engle
Dear Readers:
I always enjoy reading a variety of books, but I especially enjoy reading books of inspiration that inspire me to take heart and move forward by doing something new each day. Books that speak of a person’s desire to better themselves and to trust Universal Law that is often, perhaps by design, beyond our total comprehension. Yet, by believing in something that is Divine and has our best interests, we can then move more easily to put our best foot forward and feel secure in our decision to move in a certain direction.
 Meditation, reflection, and prayer aid in helping us discover our unique path that does not leave us standing still but moving in the direction of our destiny. By reading and contemplating such books as Claude Bristol’s The Magic of Believing, a person can better understand Napoleon Hill’s concept of Applied Faith and how we can use Faith that is action oriented to better ourselves and thereby our outcomes in life. If life and believing do not have an element of the divine magic in their makeup, then life in general can digress to the mundane and trivial. Magic, kept alive, can continue to allow us to be learners as children of the universe who see everything with new eyes.
 Two other books worth mentioning for their unique viewpoints are W. Clement Stone’s and Norma Lee Browning’s The Other Side of the Mind. And Marcus Bach’s The Will to Believe. These books present individual viewpoints of the extraordinary capacities of the human mind much as Dr. Hill’s discussed the overriding powers of our subconscious mind and its capabilities to direct our actions most times without our conscious awareness. Intricate material to ponder when a person is looking within to develop a more spiritual focus prior to looking without in order to change their material world.
Even though some of this may sound superfluous or even unnecessary, the mind still remains our greatest undiscovered treasure. Within, our mind is the home for our past, present, and future. It holds our ancestry and even the collective unconscious the Carl Jung spent his lifetime researching. Something so significant should not be left up to chance happenings. If you owned a Rolls Royce, a Bentley, or even a Focus wouldn’t you want to read the owner’s manual at least once to get the best performance capable of being offered you? Don’t neglect to utilize your greatest capacity as a human. As the saying goes, for all of us “A mind is a terrible thing to waste.”
Be Your Very Best Always,
Judy Williamson
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Tune In On A Higher Plane
by Napoleon Hill
One of my students asked me about my concept of Infinite Intelligence and if I meant the same thing as God. I said, “Yes I do.” “Well,” he said, “can you prove the existence of your concept of God?” I replied, “Everything in the universe is the finest evidence of Its existence, because of the orderliness of the universe.” Everything’s orderly, from the electrons and protons in the smallest part of the matter, up to the largest suns that float through the heavens. Everything’s in orderliness: no chaos, no running together of the planets. There’s more evidence of a first cause than there is of anything that I know of. And, if you don’t believe that, if you don’t accept it, if you don’t see it, if you don’t feel it, and if you don’t know it, then you won’t know that you are a minute part of that Infinite Intelligence being expressed through your brain. If you recognize that, then you recognize the truth of what I said–that your only limitations are those which you set up in your mind, or permit somebody to set up there, or let circumstances establish there for you.
Source: Your Right To Be Rich. Penguin. 2015. Pgs. 77-78.
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My Fifty Cents
by Uriel Martinez
There is a saying you probably heard before that goes like this: “You get what you pay for.” That is true in most cases when it comes to services and goods. This is something that thanks to our economy we have rightfully come to expect. But what can you expect to get from something that costs only fifty cents? Here is one instance where that saying is not true, but in a very good way. It’s not hard to find a bargain as long as you are looking for it. I found a great one at a local thrift store when I purchased a CD called The Best of Classics for Meditation. Total running time fifty four minutes and ten seconds. To me it’s not worth fifty cents. It’s worth much much more even if purchased at the regular price. When I saw the price on that CD I kind of thought to myself “How dare they label this CD fifty cents!” In this CD I listened to priceless classical compositions like Symphony NO. 6 in F major opus 68 Pastorale by Ludwig Van Beethoven recorded by the Slovak Philharmonic Orchstra, conductor Bystrick Rezucha. Cluade Debussy’s Claire de lune, Tchaikovsky’s Flower Waltz from The Nutcracker and Edvard Grieg’s Morning from Peer Gynt-Suite NO. 1 op. 46, to mention a few. The compositions are spectacular and to think that I am listening to these classics that were written centuries before and I can still enjoy them today for fifty cents! Beethoven lived from 1770 to 1827 and I am still enjoying his music as I drive my car to work. One thing that humors me as I listen to these works is that I don’t think this is the way classical music was meant to be listened to. Back then there were no tape recorders, no radios no internet, no cars. Attending a performance was a social event. And live in person was the way it was meant to be experienced. Yet I am very grateful to hear it in my car as I drive to work.
It’s easy to undervalue or “label” something or someone as not worthy of our attention as we rush from work to work. But then there is that which just stands out from the crowd, that which transcends. As I facilitate the Distance learning course for the Napoleon Hill Foundation the students are asked to submit a name of someone who personifies Definiteness of Purpose. One of the students submitted rap artist “Fifty Cent” as an example of great Definiteness of Purpose. This is a person who was able to overcome the challenges of his environment, who through applied faith and hope was able to become a very well-known artist in the genre of rap and in pop music. One source says Mr. Jackson adopted the nickname “50 Cent” as a metaphor for change. Growing up in an environment where you are labeled worthless is not an easy thing to overcome. He was different. He had talent and he wanted to change. And he did!
The market is full of motivational courses and seminars that compete for your attention. Some seminars cost as much as ten thousand dollars per session. The Napoleon Hill Foundation offers courses at a reasonable tuition making it accessible to a unique market. Students keep coming back to the philosophy that helps them. This week I received an enthusiastic call from Carl Garwood expressing his appreciation for Dr. Hill’s philosophy. He was interested in renewing his certification status because he realizes the value and recognition it brings to his work place. He wrote me in an email later saying…
“I don’t think I have ever let you know how fantastic the Courses offered by the Napoleon Hill Foundation are. First, the reason I got though it so quick was that I enjoyed it so much. You really feel like you are being coached by Dr Hill himself and even though I was just starting my certification I was getting results straight away. At work my Sales doubled and people started to comment ‘what is he on?’ due to my constant positive ‘can do’ attitude. The quality and quantity of material I received from the courses is PRICELESS. The CD’s never leave my car and the books never leave ME……fact! Thank you again, Carl Garwood, Head of Sales – Selling, UK”
Coming across great finds or impressive talent takes a little bit of luck, or a little bit of searching. And sometimes you will find these in the most unlikely places, like a thrift store, or a ghetto, or even in a flooded motivational success market. There can be great value in the wrongly labeled, the discarded, the unwanted, the not so well known. Rest assured that once you encounter a great find you can extract great riches that are worth more than their weight in gold. That is my fifty cents.
Uriel Martinez,
Instructor
Napoleon Hill World Learning Center
Purdue Northwest University
Uriel Martinez is the Executive Assistant to the Director of Napoleon Hill World Learning Center since 2000 and the Instructor for the Napoleon Hill Foundation’s Distance Learning Course. Author of Lessons of the Labyrinth and guest speaker on this subject and related topics for local, national and international events.
Uriel may be reached at martineu@pnw.edu
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Think and Grow Rich:
The 1937 Edition
by Napoleon Hill
This edition of Napoleon Hill’s Classic Think and Grow Rich is a reproduction of Napoleon Hill’s personal copy of the first edition, the ONLY original version recommended by The Napoleon Hill Foundation, originally printed in March of 1937.
The most famous of all teachers of success spent a fortune and the better part of a lifetime of effort to produce the Law of Success philosophy that forms the basis of his books and that is so powerfully summarized and explained for the general public in this book.
Available on Amazon.com
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Napoleon Hill Is on the Air!: The Five Foundations for Success
by Napoleon Hill
In 1953, at the pinnacle of his career, beloved motivational speaker Napoleon Hill—whose classic Think and Grow Rich continues to inspire millions—distilled his lifetime work into a series of live radio broadcasts. In each one, Hill walked his listeners through one of the Five Foundations for Success—what he described as absolute musts connected to “practically all achievement that’s worth mentioning.”
Napoleon Hill Is on the Air! comprises those never-before-published transcripts in an engaging Q&A format. Together they provide deep analysis of the “Big Five” principles and how to apply them for maximum benefit in business and relationships. The transcripts also offer rich, off-the-cuff insights and inspirational stories derived from Hill’s years spent studying American icons, including Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Edison, Charles M. Schwab, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt. This remarkable book offers a unique perspective on Napoleon Hill’s groundbreaking principles of success—as practical and powerful today as when he first discovered them.
The Foundation has partnered with the Grand Harbor Press Division of Amazon to publish a number of previously unpublished radio and television broadcasts by Napoleon Hill. Called the “Napoleon Hill is On The Air” series, the first of the books is “The Five Foundations for Success.” It will be published on March 14 and is available for pre-order now on Amazon. It consists of radio broadcasts made by Dr. Hill in Jackson, Mississippi in 1953. In these broadcasts, he concentrated on what he considered to be the “Big 5” of his seventeen success principles. This powerful book also contains an introduction by Dr. Charles Johnson, Dr. Hill’s nephew, which is the only public pronouncement about his uncle that Dr. Johnson has ever made.
Available on Amazon.com!
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The Other Side of the Mind
by W. Clement Stone and Norma Lee Browning
The human mind today is undergoing the most exciting and intensive probing in the history of mankind. In this unusual and provocative book, W. Clement Stone, a hard-headed businessman, and Norma Lee Browning, a top reporter, combine forces to explore The Other Side of the Mind – the fascinating, often controversial world of mind phenomena. “Enough is known today about the capabilities of the brain to provide science with its greatest challenge,” writes Norma Lee Browning. “It is now evident that we are only scratching the surface of human potentialities. When the curtain of mystery is lifted from the last unexplored corner of the mind, there will be no limits to what the future may hold for shaping the destiny of mankind.” Here also is a bold challenge to each reader – a challenge to keep an open mind as you read about: -The strange psychic life of the Australian Aborigines. -The mystery of the fire-walkers of the Fiji Islands. -The yogis of India, who may hold the key which scientists everywhere are looking for to unlock the hidden reservoirs of human efficiency and energy. -The startling and significant research into mental telepathy that is being done by Soviet scientists of the highest caliber. -Extra-sensory perception and what the future holds for para-psychology. -The researches into hypnosis, cybernetics and ESB – electrical stimulation of the brain. -Lourdes, for whose cures medical science has no explanation. -The sensitives of mediums who claim to have special psychic powers and the honest appearing charlatans who prey upon the gullible. -How you can relate the facts in this book to your own life to develop and maintain your physical, mental, and moral well-being.
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Think and Grow Rich
by Napoleon Hill
As Executive Director of the Napoleon Hill Foundation, I receive many requests from people wanting the original 1937 copy of Think and Grow Rich. To satisfy those of you who desire to have a 1937 unedited copy, we have reproduced Napoleon Hill’s personal copy of the first edition, printed in March of 1937. The book has the notation, “not to be loaned,” and signed: Annie Lou Hill (the wife of Dr. Hill). This personal copy of Dr. Hill’s was given to me by Dr. Charles W. Johnson, Chairman of the Napoleon Hill Foundation and a nephew of Napoleon Hill. It was Napoleon Hill who sent Dr. Johnson to medical school, and today he is a practicing cardiologist. Charlie refers to Napoleon Hill as “Uncle Nap” and will often makes the statement, “Uncle Nap would be proud of the Foundation today.” The original 1937 manuscript was written and edited with the assistance of Napoleon’s wife. In later years, the existing document was again edited by Dr. Hill. For example, the Foundation owns a 1958 edition that Hill edited personally. This did not lessen the book’s value in Hill’s judgment. Hill made the editing remarks in his own handwriting and the resulting 1960 edited edition has sold over 100 million copies making it the most read self-help book of all time
Available on Amazon.com
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The Little Book of Leadership
By: Jeffrey Gitomer
This comprehensive book will help you understand your situation, identify your opportunities, create your objectives, execute by action and delegation, and establish a leadership position through enthusiasm, brilliance, action, collaboration, resilience, and achievement.
The time for real-world leadership is NOW. This is a leadership book that transcends theory and philosophy, and gets right down to brass tacks and brass tactics, and adds a few brass balls.It’s full of practical, pragmatic, actionable ideas and strategies that when implemented assure respect and loyalty – and ensure long-term success and legacy.
The 12.5 Leadership Strengths revealed in this book will challenge you, admonish you, guide you, and create new success opportunities for you.
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January 27, 2017 
