Success: The Best of Napoleon Hill

by Napoleon Hill

Napoleon Hill, internationally-bestselling motivational author, devoted his life to unlocking the secrets to success. He analysed the outstanding life work of hundreds of magnates, tycoons, moguls and captains of industry and uncovered a key secret - thinking great will put you on the way to being great.Combining winning formulas from two of Hill's most powerful The Law of Success and The Magic Ladder to Success and updated for the twenty-first century, The Best of Napoleon Hill offers you the essential guide to finding your fortune and winning in life. Napoleon Hill lays out the seventeen principles that make the Law of Success, which will unlock the door to success and prosperity for everyone.

Genres: Business, Self Help, Nonfiction

224 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

Oliver Napoleon Hill was an American self-help author and conman. He is best known for his book Think and Grow Rich (1937), which is among the best-selling self-help books of all time. Hill's works insisted that fervid expectations are essential to improving one's life. Most of his books were promoted as expounding principles to achieve "success".
Hill is a controversial figure. Accused of fraud, modern historians also doubt many of his claims, such as that he met Andrew Carnegie and that he was an attorney.

Reviews

[Khalid Almoghrabi · Rating 5 out of 5]

This man made his life to one goal; finding the laws of success and surely he did wonderful in his research. for over a century his books are still full of practical and useful formulas for people to succeed. what is magnetic in his research was that he concerned on applying the laws on himself before concluding it as a law. this job took from him over three decades to conduct it.
I highly recommend this book

[Jeff Matlow · Rating 3 out of 5]

6.5/10

This isn’t actually the book I read but it’s close. The book I read is called “Dream Big! Overcoming Fear and Achieving Success” but I can’t find the title on Goodreads. So I chose to put my review under this book which seems close enough.

Dream Big is a series of excerpts from Napoleons writing. He is a legend when it comes to personal growth and motivational speaking. He was selling millions of books before Tony Robbins’ parents were even born.

Napoleon wrote most of his thoughts in the early 20th century, shortly after the Great Depression. They are good thoughts as far as personal growth (focus on what you want, make a plan, remind yourself of it every day, etc). They are just not as advanced as the personal/leadership growth conversations that are happening now.

I wouldn’t want to read a full Napoleon Hill book as I think it will feel well outdated, but I have appreciation for him and how he birthed an entire industry on personal growth / success-mindedness. He was a thinker well ahead of his time.


UPDATED REVIEW: I just learned a lot more about Napoleon Hill and as it turns out he was a huge con man and compulsive liar. Instead of reading any of his books, read the biography on him. It’s insane.

#netgalley #dreambig

[Lakpa Tashi Bhutia · Rating 2 out of 5]

I think this book is the precise version of author's another book "Law of Success". As he kept talking about that book. I wouldn't say it's a bad book. But quite hard to comprehend. Author has gave seventeen general rule for success.

First some of the chapters are filled with scientific jargons. It will definitely make you bore. Perhaps from the middle of the book it will all make sense. So keep on reading even if you feel bore.

I would suggest to read this book after reading his another book "Law of Success".

[NicoReads34 · Rating 2 out of 5]

E o carte pe care să o citești după o perioadă mai aglomerată în care mintea ta a fost supusă la mult consum de energie. E ceva relaxant de care să te bucuri și care să te ajute să te dezvolți. Nu e o carte pe care să o citești pasiv, ci ai nevoie de implicare și ajutorul unui creion și a unei foi de hârtie. Cu siguranță ai ce învăța de aici! M-a redat motivația după o perioadă stresantă și mi-a dat un impuls de a face mai multe lucruri productive. E un imbold bun atunci când te simți lipsit de chef.

[M Jahangir kz · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another great book by Napolean hill, this is again a wonderful read, this book is very good, all the steps provided by the author towards achieving success in any walk of life are absolutely practical, the approaches an the examples given are very good, will recommend this book to everyone who reads self help books. 4.5/5.

[Svetlana Wesley · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great box of rules to get a success

[Richard Lodge · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really helpful summary of the way to be successful

[Gideon Kibet Kitur Ruto · Rating 5 out of 5]

An insightful classic! Learnt a lot from it. Napoleon Hill enlightens readers about the principles of success in an easy to understand manner.10/10 would recommend. Looking forward to reading Think and Grow Rich which has been cited several times in this book by the author.

[bubblesm · Rating 3 out of 5]

Like the other works of napoleon hill. This one felt incomplete :(

[Aditya Kumar · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good book but needs patience and deep understating to know what the author want to say.had to read it 3 times to understand the thoughts.

[Fraser · Rating 4 out of 5]

It is a good summary of his 17 principles. It doesn't go into too much depth, but a good quick overview of them.

[Sooraj Naga · Rating 4 out of 5]

The choice of words for motivating the readers to move their ass down to work is sublime.