Science Of Success (Incomplete Set)

PMA: The Science of Success by Napoleon Hill. Napoleon Hill Associates, 1953.

A course of individually issued lesson booklets teaching Hill’s seventeen principles of personal achievement — the formula he distilled from analyzing the careers of more than five hundred of America’s most successful men and women. 

The Science of Success grew out of Napoleon Hill Associates, the enterprise Hill formed with insurance magnate W. Clement Stone in 1952 to train others in his philosophy of Positive Mental Attitude; each lesson paired Hill’s instruction with self-evaluation and professional grading toward a certificate of completion. 

This set gathers fourteen of the seventeen lesson booklets — Lessons Two, Four through Fifteen, and Seventeen — wanting only Lesson One (Definiteness of Purpose), Lesson Three (Applied Faith), and Lesson Sixteen (Budgeting Time and Money). 

A scarce early-1950s record of the success philosophy that shaped modern personal-development literature.