Napoleon Hill (
26 October 1883 –
8 November 1970) was an
American author who was one of the earliest producers of the modern genre of personal-success literature.
His most famous work,
Think and Grow Rich (
1937), is one of the best-selling books of all time (at the time of
Hill's death in 1970, Think and Grow Rich had sold 20 million copies).[2] Hill's works examined the power of personal beliefs, and the role they play in personal success. Most of his books described principles to achieve 'success'.
Life and works:
Napoleon Hill was born in a one-room cabin near the Appalachian town of
Pound, in
Southwest Virginia.[5] Hill's mother died when he was nine years old, and his father remarried two years later. At the age of 13,
Hill began writing as a "mountain reporter" for small-town newspapers in the area of
Wise County, Virginia. He later used his earnings as a reporter to enter law school, but soon he had to withdraw for financial reasons.
Influence of
Andrew Carnegie
Napoleon Hill considered the turning
point in his life to have occurred in the year
1908 with his assignment, as part of a series of articles about famous and successful men, to interview the industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. However, whether this meeting actually occurred is widely contested.[7] According to Hill's latter books, at the time of his meeting,
Carnegie was one of the most powerful men in the world. Hill discovered that Carnegie believed that the process of success could be outlined in a simple formula that anyone would be able to understand and achieve. Impressed with Hill, Carnegie asked him if he was up to the task of putting together this information, to interview or analyze over
500 successful men and women, many of them millionaires, in order to discover and publish this formula for success.
As part of his research, Hill claimed to have interviewed many of the most successful people of the time in the
United States. In the acknowledgments section of his 1928 multi-volume work
The Law of Success, Hill listed 45 of those studied by him during the previous twenty years, "the majority of these men at close range, in person", like the three to whom the book set was dedicated, Andrew Carnegie,
Henry Ford, and
Edwin C. Barnes, an associate of
Thomas Edison. Carnegie had given Hill a letter of introduction to
Ford, who introduced Hill to
Alexander Graham Bell,
Elmer R. Gates, Thomas Edison, and
Luther Burbank. According to the publishers, Ralston
University Press (
Meriden, Conn.), endorsements for the publishing of The Law of Success were sent by a number of them, including
William H. Taft,
Cyrus H. K. Curtis, Thomas Edison, Luther Burbank,
E.M. Statler,
Edward W. Bok, and
John D. Rockefeller.
The list in the acknowledgments also includes, among those of them personally interviewed by Hill,
Rufus A. Ayers,
John Burroughs,
Harvey Samuel Firestone,
Elbert H. Gary,
James J. Hill,
George Safford Parker,
Theodore Roosevelt,
Charles M. Schwab,
Frank A. Vanderlip,
John Wanamaker,
F. W. Woolworth,
Daniel Thew Wright, and
William Wrigley, Jr. Hill was also an advisor to two presidents of the
United States of America,
Woodrow Wilson and
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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