Who is Napoleon Hill?
Napoleon Hill was borne in October 26, 1883 ad he died in November 8, 1970, was an American author in the new thought
tradition of the previous century, and an early producer of personal-success literature
. At the time of Hill's death in 1970, his best-known work, Think and Grow Rich in 1937 had sold 20 million copies. Hill's works insisted fervid expectations are essential to increasing one's income. Most of his books were promoted as expositing principles to achieve "success". Hill was an advisor to two presidents of the United States of America, Woodrow Wilson
and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
.
How was life and work?
Hill was born in a one-room cabin near the Appalachian
town of Pound
in Southwest Virginia
. Hill's mother died when he was nine years old, and his father remarried two years later. At the age of 13, Hill began writing as a "mountain reporter", initially for his father's paper. He later used his earnings as a reporter to enter law school, but soon withdrew for lack of funds. 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. He was given an assignment (1908) to write a series of success stories of famous men, and his big break came when he was asked to interview steel-magnate-magnate Andrew Carnegie. He became an advisor to Andrew Carnegie, and with Carnegies's help he formulated a philosophy of success, drawing on the thoughts and experience of a multitude of rages-to-riches tycoons. It took Hill over 20 years to produce his book, Personal Development (Think and Grow Rich). After 1970 a successful career writing, teaching, and lecturing about principles of success. His work stands as a monument to individual achievement and it s the conerstone of modern motivation.