Commissioned by Andrew Carnegie in 1908 to research and document the first study of what makes people successful, Napoleon Hill published the sixteen-lesson, eight-volume Law of Success course in 1928. Many more Napoleon Hill books followed, including the most famous and bestselling Think and Grow Rich in 1937...
Commissioned by Andrew Carnegie in 1908 to research and document the first study of what makes people successful, Napoleon Hill published the sixteen-lesson, eight-volume Law of Success course in 1928. Many more Napoleon Hill books followed, including the most famous and bestselling Think and Grow Rich in 1937...
Commissioned by Andrew Carnegie in 1908 to research and document the first study of what makes people successful, Napoleon Hill published the sixteen-lesson, eight-volume Law of Success course in 1928. Many more Napoleon Hill books followed, including the most famous and bestselling Think and Grow Rich in 1937...
You could choose to go out hunting or do drugs or stay home and watch soap operas. We have the ability to make that choice. The choices we make become habits. Habits in turn define who we are, good or bad. Our minds will accept positive information; they’ll also accept negative information. The thought we dwell on the most is the one we’re most likely to become....
Napoleon Hill himself suffered many setbacks during his career, because he didn’t have a knack for money, but he always had the resiliency to come back. In 1919–23, when he was doing his magazines, Hill’s Golden Rule Magazine and Napoleon Hill’s Magazine, he had bad business dealings with a partner and lost them...
I think Napoleon Hill was disciplined, at least in some areas. He was particular about his food and his health, and he lived to be eighty-seven. He followed a pretty strict routine for most of his life. He smoked a cigar occasionally, and he said sometimes he had a drink or two, but they never caused him problems...
I have learned that reading good books leads to a better future and a life of worthwhile purpose—and you can learn this same important lesson. When you plan for success, it will be absolutely necessary that you maintain a good reading program...
I remember that when I was a young person, several weeks before Christmas, I was not thinking about toys or clothes that I might receive as gifts. I was thinking of ways to make money. I would think of holly, Christmas trees, and mistletoe that could be found in the woods and brought to the highway to sell to people who were traveling at this time of year. The thought of making money was so strong and I pictured it so vividly that its fruition seemed assured as if it had already happened...
In 1922, Napoleon Hill was invited to give the commencement address at Salem College in Salem, West Virginia. The school was founded in 1888 as a liberal arts, teacher education, and nursing college. Titled “The End of the Rainbow,” the commencement address was the most influential speech that Hill ever gave...