success habits
A young magazine reporter from the mountains of southwest Virginia, Napoleon Hill was assigned to interview American steel magnate Andrew Carnegie. Mr. Carnegie was impressed with young Napoleon’s intelligence and ambition, and at the end of the three-day interview Mr. Carnegie asked him if he would devote twenty years of his life, without pay, to researching and writing the first book ever on the philosophy of success developed and applied by America’s leaders. With some trepidation but little hesitation, Napoleon said yes and assured Mr. Carnegie he would not only begin the project but he would complete it. Complete it he did, and twenty years after that 1908 interview, Napoleon Hill published his first book, titled Law of Success. It was followed in 1937...