This book presents, in a greatly condensed form, the entire seventeen factors out of which the Law of Success philosophy was evolved. This philosophy represents all that the most successful men who ever lived have learned about the achievement of success in practically every sort of human endeavor. Its compilation has cost a fortune, to say nothing of the better part of a lifetime of effort upon the part of 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.