The Napoleon Hill Foundation

May 2, 2025 / ISSUE 956
The Napoleon Hill Foundation
Making the world a better place in which to live.

Dear Readers,

W. Clement Stone helped to establish the Napoleon Hill Foundation. This Sunday, May 4^this W. Clement Stone’s birthdate, and to honor him, let us look at one of the best books he coauthored with Napoleon Hill. The book is called Success through a Positive Mental Attitude.

Stone had never met Hill, although he had read his books. Then one day, Stone went to Chicago for a dental convention, and Hill was there, although Stone said he didn’t realize Hill was still alive. At this point Stone’s insurance company had grown astronomically, because Hill’s book was required reading for all of his employees. Stone gave away thousands of copies of the book. As his company grew, he would bring in speakers, including Hill and many of the other big names of the day, to address his seven thousand employees. Hill and Stone used to have discussions about the importance of a positive mental attitude, and eventually they authored this book together.

Although Success through a Positive Mental Attitude was published sixty-five years ago, it still sells tremendously well—probably around twenty million copies in its thirty-seven editions. That tells you something. Most other books disappear. They have a shelf life of a year, two years at most, when the royalties are good. You can’t imagine getting royalties for something that’s been out there for over sixty years.

I wish you the best,

Don Green
Executive Director
Napoleon Hill Foundation

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We now know that PMA is a positive mental attitude. And we also know that a Positive Mental Attitude is one of the 17 success principles. When you begin to apply a combination of these principles with PMA in your chosen occupation or to a solution of your personal problems, you are on the road to success. Then you are on the right track and headed in the right direction towards getting what you want.

To achieve anything worthwhile in life, it is imperative that you apply PMA, regardless of what other success principles you employ. PMA is the catalyst which makes any combination of success principles work to attain a worthwhile end. It is NMA, combined with some of the same principles, that is the catalyst which results in crime or evil. And grief, disaster, tragedy—sin, disease, death—are some of its rewards.

The students who enroll in the PMA Science of Success course are often people who consider themselves failures in some area of their lives. The very first question such a person might be asked when he enters the
class is: Why? Why are you taking this course? Why haven’t you had the success you would like to have? And the reasons which they give tell us a tragic story about the causes of failure.

“I never really had a chance to get ahead. My father was an alcoholic, you know.”

“I was raised in the slums and that’s something you can never get out of your system.”

“I only had a grammar school education.”

These people are all saying, in essence, that the world has given them a raw deal. They are blaming the world and circumstances outside themselves for their failures. They blame their heredity or their environment. They start out with a negative mental attitude. And, of course, with that attitude, they are handicapped. But it is NMA that is holding them down, not the external handicap which they give as the cause of their failure.

A lesson learned from a child

There is a wonderful little story about a minister who, one Saturday morning, was trying to prepare his sermon under difficult conditions. His wife was out shopping. It was a rainy day and his young son was restless and
bored, with nothing to do. Finally, in desperation, the minister picked up an old magazine and thumbed through it until he came to a large brightly colored picture. It showed a map of the world. He tore the page from the magazine, ripped it into little bits and threw the scraps all over the living room floor with the words:

“Johnny, if you can put this all together, I’ll give you a quarter.”

The preacher thought this would take Johnny most of the morning. But within ten minutes there was a knock on his study door. It was his son with the completed puzzle. The minister was amazed to see Johnny finished so soon, with the pieces of paper neatly arranged and the map of the world back in order.

“Son, how did you get that done so fast?” the preacher asked.

“Oh,” said Johnny, “it was easy. On the other side there was a picture of a man. I just put a piece of paper on the bottom, put the picture of the man together, put a piece of paper on top, and then turned it over. I figured that if I got the man right, the world would be right.”

The minister smiled, and handed his son a quarter. “And you’ve given me my sermon for tomorrow, too,” he said. “If a man is right, his world will be right.”

There’s a great lesson in this idea. If you are unhappy with your world and want to change it, the place to start is with yourself. If you are right, your world will be right. This is what PMA is all about. When you have a Positive Mental Attitude, the problems of your world tend to bow before you.

Source: Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude by W. Clement Stone & Napoleon Hill

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Thinking
by Walter D. Wintle

If you think you are beaten, you are
If you think you dare not, you don’t,
If you like to win, but you think you can’t
It is almost certain you won’t.

If you think you’ll lose, you’re lost
For out of the world we find,
Success begins with a fellow’s will
It’s all in the state of mind.

If you think you are outclassed, you are
You’ve got to think high to rise,
You’ve got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.

Life’s battles don’t always go
To the stronger or faster man,
But soon or late the man who wins
Is the man WHO THINKS HE CAN!

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Do you have a poem, song, or story that goes well with one of the Principles of Success?
Do you have a list of books that go well with each Principle of Success? Send your suggested selections to Uriel at um17pma@gmail.comUriel Martinez
Director of Distance Learning
The Napoleon Hill Foundation
um17pma@gmail.com
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A Millionaire Vision
by Don Green

In A Millionaire Vision, Don Green takes readers on an inspiring journey from humble beginnings to achieving a vision of wealth, not just in material terms, but in richness of life. Raised in a small house without modern conveniences, Green’s story is a testament to the power of vision, goal-setting, and relentless effort. Working for minimal wages, he set his sights high, aiming for no less than a millionaire’s life filled with success symbols like a black Mercedes and a gold Presidential Rolex watch.

Through vivid narratives, Green shares how his early fascination with the biographies of great men and personal development leaders like Napoleon Hill and Brian Tracy laid the foundation for his own path to success. His practical use of a vision board, setting clear and tangible goals, and the profound realization that true success encompasses helping others, frames a blueprint for anyone aspiring to achieve their own dreams.

With contributions from Dr. J.B. Hill, who provides an esoteric perspective on the subconscious mind’s role in creating our reality, the book delves into the historical and psychological underpinnings of success. It explores the power of visualization and positive thinking, backed by stories that affirm the human potential to manifest desires into reality.

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