The Law of Success (1st Edition)

The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons by Napoleon Hill. Meriden, Connecticut: The Ralston University Press, 1928. The first edition of Hill’s foundational work, issued in eight volumes — the twenty-year distillation of his study of more than five hundred successful men and women that he undertook at the challenge of the steel magnate Andrew Carnegie. The Law of Success set out the principles Hill would later condense into Think and Grow Rich (1937), among them a Definite Chief Aim, the Master Mind, Self-Confidence, Imagination, Self-Control, and a Pleasing Personality. Complete in eight volumes.