Think And Grow Rich

FOREWORD
"Whatever your mind can conceive and believe it can achieve." - Napoleon Hill
American born Napoleon Hill is considered to have influenced more people
into success than any other person in history. He has been perhaps the most
influential man in the area of personal success technique development, primarily
through his classic book Think and Grow Rich which has helped million of thepeople and has been important in the life of many successful people such as W.
Clement Stone and Og Mandino.
Napoleon Hill was born into poverty in 1883 in a one-room cabin on the Pound
River in Wise County, Virginia. At the age of 10 his mother died, and two years
later his father remarried. He became a very rebellious boy, but grew up to be an
incredible man. He began his writing career at age 13 asa "mountain reporter" for
small town newspapers and went on to become America's most beloved
motivational author. Fighting against all class of great disadvantages and
pressures, he dedicated more than 25 years of his life to define the reasons by
which so many people fail to achieve true financial success and happiness in their
life.
During this time he achieved great success as an attorney andjournalist. His
early career as a reporter helped finance his way through law school. He was
given an assignment to write a series of success stories of famous men, and his
big break came when he was asked to interview steel-magnate Andrew Carnegie.
Mr. Carnegie commissioned Hill to interview over 500 millionaires to find a
success formula that could be used by the average person. These includedThomas
Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Henry Ford, Elmer Gates, Charles M. Schwab,
Theodore Roosevelt, William Wrigley Jr, John Wanamaker, WIlliam Jennings
Bryan, George Eastman, Woodrow Wilson, William H. Taft, John D. Rockefeller,
F. W. Woolworth, Jennings Randolph, among others.
He became an advisor to Andrew Carnegie, and with Carnegie's help he
formulated a philosophy of success, drawing on thethoughts and experience of a
multitude of rags-to-riches tycoons. It took Hill over 20 years to produce his
book, a classic in the Personal Development field called Think and Grow Rich.
This book has sold over 7 million copies and has helped thousands achieve
success.

The secret to success is very simple but you'll have to read the book to find out

what it is!
Napoleon Hill passed away inNovember 1970 after a long and successful
career writing, teaching, and lecturing about the principles of success. His work
stands as a monument to individual achievement and is the cornerstone of modern
motivation. His book, Think and Grow Rich, is the all time best-seller in the field.
Perhaps no other success book has influenced more people than Napoleon
Hill’s Classic Think and Grow Rich. Sinceit’s introduction in 1937, millions of
copies have been sold around the world. It still remains one of the top selling
books of its kind.
Several years ago I came across a biography of Hill on a PBS show and it was
an eye-opening adventure into the life of a man whose days were not the smooth
sailing I had always assumed they were.
Napoleon struggled against a myriad of obstacles throughout his lifemany of
which were brought on by some of the earlier choices he had made. I can’t count
the number of times he became broke and penniless following a highly successful
venture gone sour. His personal life was as spotted as his financial life and a
recounting of that could easily consume a full book.
I would have thought that my discovery of his many flaws would cause me to
lose respect for him, andthus doubt the veracity of his teachings that have
influenced me for more than twenty years. But it is quite the opposite. Having
listened to the struggles of this very human man has given me a whole new
perspective of respect, even awe, of the incredible resilience and persistence that
he displayed repeatedly against sometimes massive odds.
I now understand that he didn’t write about some...