About the Author

Napoleon Hill (1883-1970), was born in a one-room cabin in Wise County, Virginia, USA.He began his writing career at age 13 as a “mountain reporter” for small town newspapers and went on to become one of America’s most beloved motivational authors. Hill was given the secret to earn riches by Andrew Carnegie in 1908, after he had made hundreds of millions and retired. He spent over twenty years of research working on the challenge, which produced his most famous work, Think and Grow Rich, a landmark classic, which is among the top 10 best selling self-help books of all time. He established the Napoleon Hill Foundation as a non-profit educational institution whose mission is to perpetuate his philosophy of leadership, self-motivation, and individual achievement.

Summary

Published in 1937 in the depths of the Great Depression, Think and Grow Rich is one of the most powerful motivational and personal development books on the philosophy of personal achievement and success. The book was inspired by Carnegie who challenged Hill to organize the world’s first philosophy of personal achievement. Hill spent over twenty years of research conducting interviews of more than five hundred men of great wealth including Henry Ford,Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, John D. Rockefeller, George Eastman and Charles M.Schwab. These men began from scratch, with nothing to give in return for riches except thoughts, ideas, and organized plans. Hill documented their common success qualities and strategies so anyone could learn how to become wealthy.

The priceless findings of Hill’s research revealed the secret used by these men to accumulate great wealth. The findings also revealed thirteen principles for achieving success and accumulating sufficient money to guarantee financial independence. Profound life-changing lessons on the genius of imagination, the subconscious mind, developing a definite purpose,building positive mental attitude, organizing the use of knowledge and organized planning are presented to provide needed stimulus to help you generate ideas, plans or suggestions to start your goals.

This masterpiece presents a perfect system of self-analysis that will readily disclose what has been standing between you and creating wealth in the past. Importantly, complete instructions on how to sell your personal services and apply the principles are included. Be prepared, when you expose yourself to the influence of this philosophy, to experience a shift in perspective and a changed life, which may help you not only to  negotiate your way through life with harmony and understanding, but also to prepare you for the accumulation of material riches in abundance.