
The Law of Success
by Napoleon Hill
Hill's 1928 sixteen-lesson course, the long original from which Think and Grow Rich was distilled: definite chief aim, self-confidence, the habit of saving, initiative, imagination, enthusiasm, self-control, doing more than paid for, pleasing personality, accurate thought, concentration, cooperation, failure, tolerance and the Golden Rule. It runs over a thousand pages and reads like the lecture series it was.
Read it if…
you want the full course behind the famous summary.
Skip it if…
you want the essentials; Think and Grow Rich is the essentials.
Three things you will actually use
- A definite aim organises everything downstream.
- Doing more than you are paid for is a long-term strategy.
- Accurate thought separates fact from opinion before acting.
Do this first
Write your definite chief aim in one sentence and read lesson two before anything else.
Our verdict
The thousand-page original.
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