The motive behind the idea of publishing the biography and autobiography of the rich is basically to facilitate your understanding of the principle of life success that we teach. It is our belief that by seeing its effectiveness practically through the lives of those who were once in poverty, but became very distinguished, world class citizens, as a result of their desire to succeed, which compelled them to follow the step-to-step rule of life success; this we believe will invariably expedite your own desire to observe, imitate where necessary and conform to the principles.
Even though Napoleon Hill was not listed among the richest people in the world, he was respected and honoured as being one of the earliest teachers of the principle of life success. He was said to be the founder of the Science of Success and exerted a strong influence on people in the area of success virtually more than any other person in history. He has been the most influential man in the area of personal success technique development, and the author of the widely read book, “Think and Grow Rich”, which has helped millions of people, and has been important in the life of many successful people. Wikipedia Encylopaedia recently revealed that two very accomplished people have stated in writing that Hill’s book “Think and Grow Rich” is directly responsible for their success. The first was Art Williams who is listed on the Forbes 400 list as being worth over $1billion. The second is Truett S. Cathy, the founder of Chick-Fil-A restaurant (a privately held corporation). He stated in his book that he read Think and Grow Rich in high school and it changed his life. Mr. Cathy is also on the Forbes 400 list with his fortune estimated to be worth $900 million. Both succeeded enormously in attracting like-minded individuals to work with them throughout their careers, one of the necessary ingredients for achievement as described in detail by Hill as a “Master Mind Alliance”. The book, “Think and Grow Rich” is one of the best-selling books of all times: more than 30 million copies has already been sold and is still in demand till date.
Napoleon Hill was born to a humble family on October 26 1883 in the town of Pound in rural Wise County, Virginia. His mother died in 1893, when he was ten. His father remarried two years later. When Hill was 13 years old, he worked as a newspaper reporter to finance his way through Georgetown University Law School, but soon had to withdraw for financial reasons. His outstanding reporting for the paper brought him to the owner of Bob Taylor’s magazine. At the age of 25, Taylor employed Hill to write a series of success stories of famous men; the first of whom was Andrew Carnegie. The turning point in Hill’s career began in 1908 when he met with the industrialist Andrew Carnegie, who at the time was one of the most powerful men in the world.
Hill intrigued Carnegie so much that Carnegie had to commission him to do a 20 year assignment: Interviewing over 500 of America most successful men in order to find through their experiences a success formula that would work for the average man.
Hill wrote in his book, “Think and Grow Rich” that, “The secret was brought to my attention by Andrew Carnegie more than half a century ago.” He wrote “The Canny, lovable old Scotsman carelessly tossed it into mind when I was but boy. Then he sat back in his chair with a merry twinkle in his eyes and watches carefully to see if I had brains enough to understand the full significance of what he had said to me”.” When he saw that I had grasped the idea, he asked if I would be willing to spend twenty years or more preparing myself to take it to the world, to men and women who, without the secret, might go through life as failures. I said I would and with Mr. Carnegie’s corporation, I have kept my promise”. Napoleon Hill also wrote that, “it was Mr. Carnegie’s idea that the magic formula, which gave him a stupendous fortune, ought to be placed within reach of people who do not have time to investigate how men make money…He believe the formula should be taught in all public schools and colleges, and expressed the opinion that if it were properly taught it would so revolutionize the entire education system that the time spent in school could be reduced to less than half.”
Although, the mission Carnegie gave Napoleon Hill was without pay and only offering to provide him with letters of reference, yet Hill was interested in spending over 20 years in researching the life of the successful people in America; not only for the purpose of fighting against poverty in the life of people, he too was interested in knowing “how wealthy men become that way”. While on the assignment, he was supporting his family by holding a period as advertising manager of La Salle Extension University of Chicago, and editing and publishing the Golden Rule Magazine. Among those Hill interviewed were John D. Rockefeller, Charles M. Schwab, Thomas A. Edison, King Gillette, Theodore Roosevelt, Wilbur Wright, Dr Alexander Graham Bell, William Wrigley Jr., John Wanamaker, and many among others. Hill once remarked, “I spent twenty-five years in research…” He eventually interviewed 504 of the nation’s most successful men. Hill, together with Andrew Carnegie published what they considered the Philosophy of Achievement in the year 1928 in a book they titled “The Law of Success”.
In 1930 he published “The Ladder of Success”. And in 1937, he published the famous book,” Think and Grow Rich” which is still in print today. In 1939, Hill published “How to Sell Your Way Through Life”; and in 1953, “How to Raise Your Own Salary”. In 1960 he published “Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude”. His final work, “You Can Work Your Own Miracles” was published in 1971, a year after his death.
After Hill had spent 25 years interviewing 504 successful men and women in America, he was convinced that riches are not beyond people’s reach only if they know the laws and the desire to pursue it. He said, “I had learned, from years of experience with men, that when a man really desires a thing so deeply that he is willing to stake his entire future on a single horn of the wheel in order to get it, he is sure to win”.
Concerning the laws of success discovered by both Napoleon Hill and Andrew Carnegie, Hill wrote, “The Secret was passed on to thousands of men and women who have used it for their personal benefit, as Mr. Carnegie planned that they should. Some have made fortunes with it. Others have used it successfully in creating harmony in their homes”. “I have never known anyone who was inspired to use the secret who did not achieve noteworthy success in his chose calling. I have never known any person to distinguish himself, or to accumulate riches of any consequences, without possession of the secret. “From this His fact” he said “ I draw the conclusion that the secret is more important, as a part of the knowledge essential for self determination, than any which one receives through what is popularly known as “education”.
Hill explicitly made known to us that; the secret to which he refers cannot be had without a price even though the price is far less than its value. He said, “There is no such thing as something for nothing!” But, “when riches begin to come they come so quickly, in such great abundance, that one wonders where they have been hiding during all those lean years”.
Hill called his teachings, “The Philosophy of Achievement”. In one of his biographies, he was said to organize Napoleon Hill Foundation, a non-profit educational institution dedicated to teaching others the science of personal achievement. He died in 1970 in South Carolina.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
“Desire is the starting point of all achievements, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire” – Napoleon Hill.
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