Think and Grow Rich
Napoleon Hill, 1937
Andrew Carnegie's fortune becomes a formula—desire, belief, persistence—in the 1937 self-help book that sold the secret of success.
Hill was born in 1883 in a one-room cabin in Wise County, Virginia, and worked as a small-town newspaper reporter before becoming a self-help lecturer.
Feels like ambition, hope and dread.
The answer is repeated a hundred times and never once said aloud.
The secret to which I refer has been mentioned no fewer than a hundred times, throughout this book. It has not been directly named, for it seems to work more successfully when it is merely uncovered and left in sight, where THOSE WHO ARE READY, and SEARCHING FOR IT, may pick it up. That is why Mr. Carnegie tossed it to me so quietly, without giving me its specific name. Napoleon Hill, 1937
Andrew Carnegie's fortune becomes a formula—desire, belief, persistence—in the 1937 self-help book that sold the secret of success.
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