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Napoleon Hill was born in 1883 in a one-room cabin on the Pound River in Wise County, Virginia. He began his writing career at age 13 as a "mountain reporter" for small town newspapers and went on to become America's most beloved motivational author.

His most famous work, Think and Grow Rich, is one of the best-selling books of all time. It is a monument of motivational literature and sold around the World.

Napoleon Hill’s life turned around 360° after meeting Andrew Carnegie, who at that time was the richest man in the World.

Carnegie introduced a young Napoleon Hill to the greats of his era: Henry Ford, John Rockefeller, Thomas Edison, Charles Schwab, George Eastman, Woodrow Wilson, F. W. Woolworth and many multi-millionaires, on one condition - that Hill develop "The Philosophy of Achievement" for ordinary people to enjoy freedom, democracy and capitalism in harmony – as Carnegie believed these were all essential for World peace.

Napoleon Hill became President Roosevelt’s advisor, who framed Hill’s famous phrase “Thoughts are Things” in the White House, Oval Office. Hill passed away in November 1970 after a long and successful career as a lawyer, writer, teacher and lecturer - with his work translated from Russian, German, French to Japanese & Chinese, across the Globe.