What I Learned from Analyzing Ten Thousand People

by Napoleon Hill, Don M. Green (Introduction)

This speech is the direct result of work that began with Andrew Carnegie in 1908. Napoleon Hill interviewed Carnegie, Thomas Edison, George Eastman, Henry Ford, and many of the other most prosperous men of his day to discover their methods for success. Hill also conducted numerous interviews to learn why people fail. He put the information he gathered together and presented it in this speech. This lesson was given in 1917 and has existed in the archives of the Napoleon Hill Foundation for over ninety years.

43 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 3, 2016

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.