Who Was Napoleon Hill To Wealth Creation?
Napoleon Hill was another important figure in the world of wealth creation; like Wallace Wattles, Hill was one of our founding fathers who brought us a wealth of information about achieving financial success that we probably otherwise never would have had.
Napoleon Hill, also like Wattles, was born into poverty in American in the late 1800’s. He worked his way into law school by writing as a “mountain reporter” for a local newspaper (a post he held from the tender age of 13). Because he was poor, and struggling to pay for college in the early 1900’s, Hill was unable to stay in law school, and eventually had to leave for financial reasons. Hill returned to his reporting job—a move that ultimately spelled the success of not only Napoleon Hill, but of a number of successful individuals embarking on the path to wealth creation.
Financially Successful People
After Napoleon Hill returned to his post as a newspaper reporter, he was given an assignment to write a series of articles chronicling a number of then contemporary successful men. On his list of interview subjects was the famed steel magnate Andrew Carnegie. Hill met with Carnegie and listened intently to everything Carnegie had to offer. Carnegie was equally impressed with Hill and presented him with a challenge—interview the most famous and financially successful people in the world, and from their successes create a formula for wealth creation that might be applied to any willing individual’s efforts at wealth creation.
Think And Grow Rich
With his curiosity piqued, Hill accepted Carnegie’s challenge. This ultimately was much to the advantage of the rest of us, as Hill fulfilled his mission. He interviewed more than 500 of the richest and most famous people living on earth at his time, and took from them the keys to their financial success. Hill worked for 20 years to study and compile his findings which he published in his now wealth-creation and empowerment classic, “Think and Grow Rich“. This is a book like no other, detailing the essentials to creating wealth that apply to all kinds of financial wealth creation endeavors. The information Hill brought to us in his book is timeless, because it deals with the human element of successful money making rather than specific financial strategies.
Napoleon Hill brought us an important tool for wealth creation, the likes of which we probably will never see again.
Sean Rasmussen
Wealth Creation Blog
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