The life of Napoleon Hill was filled with many great things, but it did not start that way.  Born in 1883, his family was struggling like most other families who were living in poverty.   This was a hard thing for young Napoleon Hill to deal with, but things became much worst when he lost his mother at only ten years old.  It was perhaps the pain from this experience that set him on his path to better days.

Napoleon Hill started his first job at thirteen as a writer of many small columns in local newspapers.  The hard earned money he saved was meant to pay his way through college, but sadly it was not enough to keep him there longer than a year.  As any great man would, Napoleon Hill kept going without ever looking back, determined to make a better future for himself.

All of his hard work began to pay off when meeting up with a man thought to be one of the richest in the world, Andrew Carnegie, who asked him to help with the publishing of his book that would show the world that the process of becoming rich could be copied by even the poorest of people.  To gather information for the book over 500 millionaires had to be interviewed to get a simple “recipe” on how to get rich.  Napoleon Hill agreed to offer his incredible talent in writing for only letters of reference, not one single penny of pay.

As a true lover of life, Napoleon Hill enjoyed it none the less completely mesmerized by the opportunity to interview some of the greatest people of that time such as Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, George Eastman, Henry Ford, Elmer Gates, and over 400 more recognizable names.  This job was not an easy one and it was perhaps one of the longest productions ever with the book being in development for over 20 years.  After so long working to make it perfect the release of ‘The Law of Success’ was not only a great relief but an incredible success.  It went onto being featured in home-study courses, and ‘Mental Dynamite’ which was another popular book hitting the market in 1941.

While working for nothing on this masterpiece Napoleon Hill had to do something to feed himself so he worked other jobs when possible.  Serving as the editor of Hill’s Golden Rule magazine, and an advisor to President Franklin Roosevelt he became familiar with so much of the world whether ever having money or not he felt like the richest man that had ever lived.

Napoleon Hill was a writer so it would be hard to believe that he didn’t have his own publications.  He released a number of books that were loved by everyone, and continue to be enjoyed today.  Some of the titles are The Ladder to Success, Think and Grow Rich How to Sell Your Way through Life, How to Raise Your Own Salary Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude and You Can Work Your Own Miracles.  Among those titles there is one absolute genius book that, if you are a marketer, you have probably heard about.  Think and Grow Rich was the most successful writing that Napoleon Hill ever produced.  It was restored and republished by Ross Comwell in 2004, who went in and updated some of the information to make it work with the market today.  Luckily there is not a lot that has changed since Napoleon Hill wrote about things dealing with mind, attitude, and other philosophy type encouragements.

The bottom-line for Mr. Napoleon Hill is that there is no bottom-line.  That was what he lived for and that is what he has received.  I am a perfect stranger and here I am sharing his incredible story which has impacted the marketing industry.  Mission accomplished Napoleon Hill!