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Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich (1937)
One of the early works in the genre of "self-improvement" books, Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich was published during the Great Depression. The author himself most likely grew rich from the book, as it had sold more than 20 million copies when Hill died in 1970; since then it has sold at least another 50 million. According to Hill, "Whatever your mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve." Hill certainly lived what he preached, as he grew up in poverty in a one-room cabin in Virginia. Hill was a onetime adviser to industrialist Andrew Carnegie, whom he credited with playing a major role in his success. |