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Napoleon Hill (October 26 1883–November 8
1970) was an United States|American author who was
one the earliest producers of the modern genre of
personal-success literature. His most famous work,
Think and Grow Rich, is one of the best-selling
books of all time.

According to his official biographer, Hill was
born into poverty in a two-room cabin in the town
of Pound River in rural Wise County, Virginia|Wise
County, Virginia. His mother died when he was ten
years old. His father 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 biographies of
famous men, to interview industrialist Andrew
Carnegie, who at the time was one of the richest
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 to interview over
500 successful men and women, many of them
millionaires, in order to discover and publish
this formula for success. 

As part of his research, Hill interviewed many of
the most famous people of the time, including
Thomas Edison,  Alexander Graham Bell, George
Eastman, Henry Ford, Elmer Gates, John D.
Rockefeller, Charles M. Schwab, F.W. Woolworth,
William Wrigley Jr., John Wanamaker, William
Jennings Bryan,  Theodore Roosevelt, William H.
Taft, Woodrow Wilson, and Jennings Randolph. The
project lasted over twenty years, during which
Hill became an advisor to Carnegie. The formula
for rags-to-riches success that Hill and Carnegie
formulated was published initially in 1928 in his
book The Law of Success.  The formula was later
published in home-study courses, including the
seventeen-volume "Mental Dynamite" series until
1941.

From 1919 to 1920 Hill was the editor and
publisher of Hill's Golden Rule magazine. In 1930
he published The Ladder to Success. From 1933 to
1936 Hill was an advisor to Franklin Delano
Roosevelt|President Franklin Roosevelt. 

In 1937 Hill elaborated this success formula in
his most famous work, Think and Grow Rich, which
is still in print and has sold over thirty million
copies.

In 1939 he published How to Sell Your Way through
Life, and in 1953 How to Raise Your Own Salary.
From 1952 to 1962 he worked with W. Clement Stone
of the Combined Insurance Company of America to
teach Stone's "Philosophy of Personal
Achievement", and to lecture on the "Science of
Success". Partly as a result of his work with
Stone, in 1960 he published Success Through a
Positive Mental Attitude. He died in 1970 in South
Carolina, and in 1971 his final work, You Can Work
Your Own Miracles, was published posthumously. 

==Quotations==
"Desire is the starting point of all achievement,
not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating
desire which transcends everything." —
Napoleon Hill

==Books written by Hill==
*Think and Grow Rich (ISBN 1593302002)
*How to Sell Your Way through Life (ISBN
0910882118)
*The Law of Success (ISBN 0879804475)
*Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude (ISBN
1555252702)
*You Can Work Your Own Miracles (ISBN 0449911772)

==External links==
*http://wikiquote.org/wiki/Napoleon_Hill Napoleon
Hill on Wikiquote
*http://cornerstone.wwwhubs.com/hill.htm Biography
of Napoleon Hill
*http://www.mastermindpower.org/ The Mindpower
Institute
*http://www.naphill.org/ The Napoleon Hill
Foundation