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CONTENTS
EDITORS' NOTE xu
THE AUTHOR'S ACKNOWLEDGMENT XV11
A PERSONAL STATEMENT BY NAPOLEON HILL XXI.
AN EXERCISE IN COMPARISON XXVI
THE SEVENTEEN LESSONS COMPRISING
LAW OF SUCCESS:
Volume I
Lesson One
INTRODUCTION TO THE MASTER MIND
Lesson Two
A DEFINITE CHIEF AIM
Lesson Three
SELF-CONFIDENCE
Lesson Four
THE HABIT OF SAVING
Volume II
Lesson Five
INITIATIVE AND LEADERSHIP
Lesson Six
IMAGINATION
Lesson Seven
ENTHUSIASM
Lesson Eight
SELF-CONTROL
Volume III
Lesson Nine
THE HABIT OF DOING MORE THAN PAID FOR
Lesson Ten
A PLEASING PERSONALITY
Lesson Eleven
ACCURATE THINKING
Lesson Twelve
CONCENTRATION
Volume IV
Lesson Thirteen
COOPERATION
Lesson Fourteen
PROFITING BY FAILURE
Lesson Fifteen
TOLERANCE
Lesson Sixteen
THE GOLDEN RULE
Lesson Seventeen
THE UNIVERSAL LAW OF COSMIC HABITFORCE
LAw OF SUCCESS IS COMPRISED OF THE KEY PRINCIPLES THAT FORM
the foundation of Napoleon Hill's philosophy of personal achievement.
The genesis of the principles explored in Law of Success date
from the day in I908 when Napoleon Hill was assigned to write a
magazine profile on steel baron and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.
During their interview Carnegie became so impressed with the young
writer that what was to have been a brief interview stretched into a
three-day marathon. It concluded with Carnegie offering to introduce
Napoleon Hill to the most powerful men of the day in order that
Hill could learn from each of them the secrets of their success. It was
Carnegie's vision that, in so doing, Hill would be able to formulate a
philosophy that could be used by anyone to help themselves create
their own success and realize their dreams.
As Napoleon Hill pursued his mission, he wrote thousands of
articles and profiles, launched his own magazines, developed home-
study courses, started training centers, and opened a business college
-all inspired by his evolving philosophy. He also created a lecture
series that brought him wide recognition as an inspiring public speaker
on the subject of success and personal achievement. Through it all,
Napoleon Hill was constantly testing and modifying his theories until
they became refined into a set of specific principles that together
formed the cohesive philosophy Andrew Carnegie had envisioned.
In 1927 Napoleon Hill finally assembled what would become
the first edition of Law oj Success. Then, in what proved to be a bril-
liant marketing concept, his publisher chose to release it not as a
single book but as a set of eight volumes. The entire collection was an
immediate and astounding success.
In its first edition Law oj Success presented fifteen principles. In
later editions the number was expanded to sixteen as Hill came to
believe that The Master Mind, which had been part of the intro-
duction to the first edition, was in fact a separate principle unto itsel£
Later still, he concluded that there was another key principle that in
effect unified the others. This newly recognized principle he termed
Cosmic Habitforce, which, when he began working with W. Clement
Stone, was also referred to as the Universal Law. Over the years there
have been at least five authorized editions that revised or added
material, and in its various forms the book has been reprinted more
than fifty times. This newly revised and updated twenty-first-century
edition is the first to include all seventeen principles.
In preparing this edition of Law oj Success] the editors have
attempted to allow Hill to be as modern an author as if he were
still among us, and we have treated the text as we would the text of
a living author. When we encountered what modern grammarians
would consider run-on sentences, outdated punctuation, or other
matters of form, we opted for contemporary usage. If something
was obscure or misleading because the author's language was idio-
syncratic or archaic, or when it might be construed as out of step
with modern thinking, minor alterations were made.
A more challenging issue was the question of how to update the
actual content of the book. In carefully reviewing the original text, it
became clear that the answer was not to simply replace the examples
cited by Hill with similar stories about contemporary people. The
anecdotes and examples used by Napoleon Hill were so integral to
the point being made or the principle being discussed that to replace
them just for the sake of having a more contemporary name would
do nothing to make it better. The editors concluded that the best
course was to instead augment with additional stories that would
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