About the Author

Napoleon Hill (1883-1970) is one of the founding fathers of the self-motivation movement. His Think and Grow Rich! is the most widely acclaimed, influential book on personal success ever published. It has never been out of print since 1937 and has sold an estimated 100 million copies worldwide. Hill was a protege of industrialist Andrew Carnegie, an informal adviser to Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and author of more than 30 books. He founded Success Unlimited magazine with his long-time collaborator W. Clement Stone. His signal works are Think and Grow Rich, The Law of Success, and Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude (with W. Clement Stone). He was a Virginia native. Ross Cornwell is a South Carolina native, educated at Davidson College and Stanford University. Worked as a journalist and columnist, editor, script writer, and in higher education as information officer, serving as executive assistant to the president of Clemson University. Recipient of top national and international awards, including 2001 Bronze World Medal at the New York Festivals and 2002 Silver Screen Award at 35th Annual U. S. International Film and Video Festival in LA. Owned corporate communications company and was first executive editor of "Think & Grow Rich Newsletter."

Reviews

"Think and Grow Rich!...Buy it...you have a book. Read it...you have the blueprint. Do it...you have the world!" -- "Cactus Jack" Barringer, entrepreneur, salesman extraordinaire and Shark Tank winner, who has given hundreds of copies of this Cornwell edition in talks to school and college students

"I must have read that book 100 times while in training...I was going to fight Muhammad Ali. I was a green fighter, but yet I won, all through reading this book." -- Ken Norton, world heavyweight boxing champion famous for his trilogy of bouts with Ali

"This book was a motivating factor for me. It gave me a new lease on life when I realized I could do anything if I had the desire and believed I could achieve my goals." -- S. Truett Cathy, founder of Chick-fil-A restaurant chain

"The '6-Step Success Formula' helped me realize that there was a way even for an uneducated lunkhead like me to make it like the big guys. I followed the success formula faithfully, and, lo and behold, my whole life turned around..."Thank you, Ross, for giving me this opportunity to look back and appreciate how really important all of this is and what a difference it has made in my life and the lives of so many others." -- Dick Herbert, head of the largest funeral-cemetery company in the world

"This book is a jewel! Buy lots of copies for your friends and clients." -- Dottie Walters, founder of Walters International Speakers Bureau (Dottie was a good friend of Hill's since the night he "discovered" her on the TV program To Tell the Truth.)

"I read it every two or three years to keep my drive going." -- Daymond John, founder and CEO of FUBU apparel and TV personality

"The cogent advice articulated by Napoleon Hill is as relevant and pertinent today as the day it was written." -- Donald R. Keough, former President and CEO of Coca-Cola

"This is the best single book on personal success ever written; it made me a millionaire--starting from nothing." -- Brian Tracy, New York Times bestselling author of The Psychology of Selling

"Helped me to become the world's greatest retail salesperson. A must read if you want to become somebody." -- Joe Girard, World's #1 Retail Salesperson, attested by Guinness Book of World Records

"It's the classic of all classics." -- Harvey Mackay, author of New York Times bestseller Swim with the Sharks without Being Eaten Alive (Harvey was on his way out the door to catch a plane to the Summer Olympics when he submitted this blurb.)