Napoleon Hill was born on October 26, 1883 in a one-room cabin on the Pound River in Wise County, Virginia.
He was an American author who was one on the earliest producers of the modern genre of personal-success literature.
His book, Think and Grow Rich, is his most famous work and all time bestseller in the field. He estalished the Foundation s a nonprofit
educational institution whose mission is to perpetuate his philosophy of leadership, self motivation, and individual achievement.
In America, Hill stated in his writings, people are free to believe what they want to believe, and this is what sets the United States apart
from all other countries in the world.
"What the mind of man can conceived and believe, it can achieve" is one of Hill's hallmark expressions.
According to his official biographer, Hill was born into poverty. His mother died when he was ten years old. His fther remarried two years later.
At the age of thirteen he began writing as a "mountain reporter" for small-town newspapers. He used his earnings as a reporter to enter law school,
but soon had to withdraw for financial reasons. the turning point in his career is considered to have been in 1908 with his assignment, as part of a
series of articles about famous men, to interview industrialist Andrew Carnegie, who at the timewas one of the most powerful men in the world.
Hill discovered that Carnegie believed that the process of success could be elaborated in a simple formula that could be duplicated by the average person. Impressed with Hill, Carnegie commissioned him (without pay and only offering to provide him with letters of reference) to interview over 500 successful
men and women, many of them millionaires, in order to discover and publish this formula for success.
Hill spent most of his effort on describing to his readers and students the paradox that "thoughts are things". In fact, the subtitle of the introduction
chapter of Think and Grow Rich is "The Man Who 'Thought' His Way". Most of the examples in Think and Grow Rich consern the great difficulty of creating
and maintaining like-mindedness, and Hill termed this concept "The Master Mind". Hill's numerous examples of racism, prejudice, war, poverty,
discouragement, and fear illustrated the significant barriers that existed in his time (and still exist today) as the road-blocks to Achievement through
the coordination of like-minded individuals.
Napoleon Hill passed away in November 1970 after a long and successful career writing, teaching and lecturing about the principles of success.
HIs works stands as a monument to individual achievement and is the cornerstone of modern motivation. Perhaps no other success book has influenced
more people than Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich. Since it's introduction 1937, millions of copies have been sold around the world. It still remains
one of the top selling books of its kind.
