The life story of the man behind the classic book Think and Grow Rich is as motivating as you'll find in any inspirational abundance and wealth book. There is a lesson we can all learn from author Napoleon Hill; when you believe in your goals, no obstacle is too great.
Personally, I’ve read Think and Grow Rich many times over the past years and even wrote a review for this website. Published in 1937, Hill’s theories about acquiring abundance and wealth are as topical today as they were back then. To a discouraged nation recovering from The Great Depression, Think and Grow Rich gave everyday people a mental and physical blueprint for acquiring success and prosperity.Just as fascinating as the theories in Think and Grow Rich so is the life story of the man who spent twenty plus years of his life studying the greatest and richest men in America. Let’s take a look at the man behind the phenomenal best seller, Think and Grow Rich.
Napoleon Hill was born on October 26, 1883 in the Appalachian town of Pound located in Southwest Virginia. The town was impoverished and most of the homes were one or two room log cabins. Hope of improving themselves let alone becoming wealthy was something people in this rural area couldn’t even imagine.
Hill’s mother died when he was nine and that proved to be a pivotal turning point in his life. His father remarried a well-educated woman who believed that the way to self-improvement was through reading and acquiring knowledge. At this time Napoleon Hill was not a good student but his stepmother began to change all of that. Hill she knew, loved to write so she promised him a typewriter if his grades improved. And, his grades improved.
At the young age of fifteen Napoleon Hill became a reporter for the local mountain newspaper and then on to a job with Bob Taylor’s Magazine. His first major interview was with the richest man in America – Andrew Carnegie. That interview changed Hill’s life forever!
Carnegie offered him introductions to the most influential people in the country if he’d spend the next twenty years interviewing and learning all he could about the science of success. But, Hill wasn’t going to be paid for his time or effort. Napoleon Hill without hesitation said, “yes.”
The Law of Success, Hill’s first work, was a culmination of the twenty years of study and published in 1928. It contained “sixteen lessons” of personal achievement. In 1937 his most popular book, Think and Grow Rich was published and sixty plus years later, we are still reading this classic.
Napoleon Hill was a self-made man who believed that definiteness of purpose and self-confidence could open the doors to life-long success. He expressed his philosophy of life this way; “Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievement.”
Napoleon Hill never became as wealthy as Carnegie - he did though leave a legacy. Hill died in 1970 and still, his books on personal and financial achievement are some of the best selling books of all time.
Here is probably one of the best known pearls of wisdom from Napoleon Hill, “If you can conceive it and believe it, you can achieve it.”
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