Napoleon Hill's 1937 success philosophy — synthesizing 13 principles (desire, faith, autosuggestion, etc.) claimed to be derived from interviews with 500 successful people including Carnegie — one of the best-selling books of all time at 100M+ copies.
Creates the modern success self-help template — Think and Grow Rich establishes the formula that virtually every subsequent success book follows: identify successful people, abstract principles from their behavior, present principles as universally applicable, connect principles to mental states.
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