Think and Grow Rich
Original Hardcover
Author	Napoleon Hill
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Personal-success
Publisher	The Ralston Society
Publication date	1937
Media type	Print (Hardcover)
ISBN	1592802605
OCLC Number	156886959

Think and Grow Rich is a motivational personal development and self-help book written by Napoleon Hill and inspired by a suggestion by Scottish-American billionaire Andrew Carnegie. It was published in 1937 during the Great Depression.^[1] It remains the biggest seller of Napoleon Hill's books, selling a claimed 30 million copies over the next 70 years (although Alice Payne Hackett's 70 Years of Best Sellers suggests the figure was lower).^[2]

Contents 1 Content 2 Variant editions 2.1 Original Version 2.2 2004 Abridged Version 2.3 The Original Version, Restored and Revised 3 See also 4 Notes 5 Further reading 6 External links

[edit] Content

The text of Think and Grow Rich is founded on Hill's earlier work The Law of Success, the result of more than twenty years of research based on Hill's close association with a large number of individuals who achieved great wealth during their lifetimes.^[1]

At Andrew Carnegie's bidding, Hill studied the characteristics of these achievers and developed 15 "laws" of success intended to be applied by anybody to achieve success. Think and Grow Rich condenses these laws further and provides the reader with 13 principles in the form of a philosophy of personal achievement.^[1]

[edit] Variant editions

[edit] Original Version

The first edition of Think and Grow Rich was released in March 1937. Only 5,000 copies were printed. Despite advertising for the book being mostly word of mouth, the original prints were sold out in six weeks at a price of $2.50 each. Another 10,000 copies were printed to meet demand, all of which also sold out in six weeks. The third print totaled 20,000.^{[3][unreliable source?]}

[edit] 2004 Abridged Version

In 2004 an abridged text was published in a version titled Think and Grow Rich: The 21st-Century Edition: Revised and Updated . It was published by High Roads Media. In this version, author/editor Bill Hartley introduces modern examples of Hill's principles combined with editorial commentary throughout the book. Some readers have expressed negative opinions of this presentation, saying the modern examples are unnecessary, useless, irritating, and the injection of outside commentary disrupts the flow of Napoleon Hill's original text.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] The Original Version, Restored and Revised

In 2004, Ross Cornwell published Think and Grow Rich!: The Original Version, Restored and Revised (ISBN 1-59330-200-2), which restored the book to its original content, with slight revisions, and added the first comprehensive endnotes, index, and appendix the book has ever contained. This version went into a third printing in 2008.^[4]

[edit] See also

• Napoleon Hill
• Andrew Carnegie
• Law of Attraction
• Wallace Wattles
• The Science of Getting Rich
• List of best-selling books

[edit] Notes

[edit] Further reading

• A Lifetime of Riches: The Biography of Napoleon Hill, Michael J. Ritt and Kirk Landers (Revised Edition 1995) (ISBN 0-525-94146-0)
• "Rich Man, Poor Man: The Story of Napoleon Hill", JM Emmert, Success magazine, January 6, 2009.
• "Think and Grow Rich", a commentary in 50 Success Classics: Winning Wisdom for Work and Life from 50 Landmark Books by Tom Butler-Bowdon (2004), London & Boston: Nicholas Brealey (ISBN 978-1-85788-333-6), Chapter 23.

[edit] External links

• Think and Grow Rich. Easy Navigation Version.