Author, Napoleon Hill

Napoleon Hill (1883-1970) is one of the founding fathers of the self-motivation movement. His Think and Grow Rich! is the most widely acclaimed, influential book on personal success ever published. It has never been out of print since 1937 and has sold an estimated 100 million copies worldwide. Hill was a protege of industrialist Andrew Carnegie, an informal adviser to Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and author of more than 30 books. He founded Success Unlimited magazine with his long-time collaborator W. Clement Stone. His signal works are Think and Grow Rich, The Law of Success, and Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude (with W. Clement Stone). He was a Virginia native.

Editor, Ross Cornwell

Ross Cornwell is the editor/annotator of this 412-page edition.  He has restored Dr. Hill’s book to its original manuscript form (it was first published in 1937, but abridged in 1960), annotated it with more than 170 endnotes and footnotes (some of the persons and events he discusses are generally unknown to readers today), indexed it thoroughly, added an appendix with a wealth of additional information about Dr. Hill and his work, and revised the book in ways to remove certain “impediments” to reading the book today.  None of these things has previously been done with TGR.