Think and Grow Rich

Napoleon Hill · 1937

Personal Development
Cover of Think and Grow Rich

The Philosophy of Personal Achievement

Napoleon Hill spent twenty years interviewing over 500 of America's most successful people — Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Theodore Roosevelt — to distill the principles behind their achievements. The result is a philosophy of personal achievement that has sold over 100 million copies and launched the modern self-help genre.

Commissioned by Andrew Carnegie himself, Hill's research project became the most influential personal development book ever written. Its central premise — that thoughts, when combined with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire, can be translated into material wealth — has shaped every success book that followed.