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Contents
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The iconic rise of Think and Grow
Rich author Napoleon Hill
Napoleon Hill Foundation CEO, Don
Green, chosen as recipient of Helping
Heroes Award
Meet Mr. PMA, W. Clement Stone,
Napoleon Hill’s friend and promoter
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6 Changing the World, One Speech at a Time
26 Are You Living a Legacy?
28 Additional Titles from The Napoleon Hill Foundation
30 Professional Development Opportunities
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An American icon
NAPOLEON
HILL
Napoleon Hill was born in 1833 in the mountains of
southwest Virginia in a two-room cabin in an area that
he often told his audiences was noted for three things:
feuds, moonshine, and ignorant people. In an unpublished
biography, Hill reflecting on his childhood, said, “For three
generations my people had been born, live, struggled
in ignorance and poverty, and died without having been
outside the mountains of that section.”
Being born in such a remote area with little opportunity
for success, Napoleon Had no reason to expect that
he would ever amount to much either. Then everything
began to change. He lost his mother when he was only
eight years old, his father remarried a year later, and
stepmother Martha Ramey Banner entered his life. She
was well-educated, cultured, the daughter of a physician,
a teacher, and the widow of a school principal. When
Martha looked at her new stepson she didn’t see another
backwoods boy who was going nowhere, she saw a boy
with boundless energy, imagination, and initiative. By the
time Napoleon was twelve, Martha had taught him how to
use a typewriter. By fifteen, he was writing stories for the
regional newspapers.
by Don Green
region, and asked him for a job. Rufus Ayres, a lawyer
by profession, was a true entrepreneur, having his own
banking business, coal business, and lumber business.
Hill went to work for Ayres, and even though he was very
successful and rose quickly in the company, within a
couple of years he realized his true passion was to become
a lawyer himself.
Napoleon also convinced his brother Vivian to apply to
Georgetown Law School and, being the eternal optimist,
Hill told Vivian he would support them both. To achieve
this, Hill then got a job writing for a magazine owned by
Bob Taylor, the former governor of Tennessee and a United
States senator. Writing success stories compiled from
Napoleon Hill’s interviews would come to define his life’s
work.
After graduating from the local two-year high school,
Napoleon chose to attend a business college. It was his
goal to prepare himself for the job of secretary, which at
the time was the entry-level position for a young man who
had his sights set on becoming an executive.
Upon the completion of business college, Hill wrote to
General Rufus Ayres, one of the wealthiest men in the
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Home of General Rufus Ayres in Big Stone Gap, Virginia

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One of Hill’s first interviews was
“
with the famed steel baron and
philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.
Carnegie’s entire life was a study in
the application of what he called his
success principles. Carnegie came to the
United States as a twelve-year-old with very
little education, but by advancing himself
from menial job to better job and from minor
opportunity to bigger opportunity, by the age
of thirty-five Andrew Carnegie had elevated
himself to the top rank of America’s empire
builders. His crowning achievement was the
combining of numerous steelmakers into the
huge conglomerate known as U.S. Steel.
Carnegie saw his humble origins as an
inspiration to overcoming obstacles and
attaining worthy goals, and before their
meeting was over, he had challenged Hill to
undertake a study of successful men and
great leaders so that Hill could compile the
information and make it available to others.
Hill accepted this challenge, and although
Carnegie offered him no salary, he
did something that proved to be more
important: he introduced Hill to the most
creative and successful entrepreneurs,
inventors, businessmen, industrialists, and
political leaders in America.
Self-mastery is the hardest job
you will ever tackle. If you do
not conquer self, you will be
conquered by self.
”
—Napoleon Hill
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Ten years later, Napoleon Hill found the perfect outlet
for his research into the secrets of success. Between
1918 and 1924, he launched and published two monthly
magazines—first Hill’s Golden Rule and later Napoleon
Hill’s Magazine.
Articles written for Hill’s Golden Rule and Napoleon
Hill’s Magazine also provided a glimpse into what would
become Hill’s future books. When his first book, Law of
Success was published in 1928, it was an instant success,
paying Hill up to $3,000 per month— a lot of money 92
years ago.
In 1937 Hill completed the book Think and Grow Rich
which was so well received that it was reprinted three
times in its first year—despite its sale price of $2.50 a
copy when the country was in the midst of the Depression.
And this was before the mass media and marketing that
is available today. Think and Grow Rich continues to sell
hundreds of thousands of copies each year worldwide,
and has a following of devout individuals who realize that
its philosophy-of-success message is as relevant today as
when it was first written.
Hill continued to communicate success principles via radio
in the 1940’s at the Warner Brothers Studio in Hollywood
and later at WGN-TV in Chicago. Seminars, lectures,
and personal appearances would continue, and finally
the founding of the nonprofit Napoleon Hill Foundation
to spread information about the principles of success
throughout the world. Although Napoleon Hill died in 1970
at the ate of 87, today his writings are more popular than
ever.
Top center, Powell Valley, Virginia, an area frequented by Hill; Lower left,
a bust of Hill and an original copy of Think and Grow Rich located in the
Napoleon Hill Foundation Archives, Wise, Virginia; Middle right, Hill with
a copy of Think and Grow Rich; Bottom right, an original copy of Hill’s
Golden Rule Magazine
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Changing
the world
ONE SPEECH AT A TIME
by J.B. Hill
Napoleon Hill rarely used more than a single page of
notes to deliver his speeches. While many of these
notes still exist, little of what he actually said has
survived. It took me many years to locate one of my
grandfather’s speeches in print. Finding one was more
than just exhilarating to me; it was miraculous.
The document I found was a transcript of a
commencement address that Napoleon gave at Salem
College (now Salem International University) in 1922.
It had been published in a local newspaper under the
title “The End of the Rainbow.” A copy was preserved
on microfilm in the archives of Salem College. When
printed, it required magnification to read, and the text
was so faded that it took more than a day to recover,
which I did by dictating it one word at a time to my
wife.
Napoleon wrote many times that adversity should
be viewed as a blessing in disguise. In the 1922
commencement address, Napoleon shows how his
many business failures were actually turning points
that led him to greater opportunities. Each failure had
therefore been a blessing.
He attributes his success to following failure to the
habit of performing more and better service than he
was being paid for. This trait was the precursor of two
of his principles of success: “Learning from Adversity
and Defeat and Going the Extra Mile.”
Napoleon delivered the 1922 speech in Salem, West
Virginia, not far from his wife. Florence’s family home in
Lumberport. Although he was the editor and publisher
of Napoleon Hill’s Magazine at the time and a success
by every measure, he had much to prove to family. Ten
business failures in a dozen years had soured family
attitudes toward him. So, the commencement address
was Napoleon’s opportunity to be applauded before
his wife’s friends and family, and in this, he succeeded.
His delivery rhythm was mesmerizing to his audience.
He used his personal history of failures to demonstrate
how he was able to overcome adversity. The speech
was touted to be the greatest ever given in that part of
the state. When it ended, amid resounding applause,
Napoleon stood before family, vindicated.
I sent a copy of the speech to Don Green, who is
executive director of the Napoleon Hill foundation. Don
immediately saw the potential for a book and began
searching through the archives of the foundation for
additional material. over several years, he discovered
a few more speeches and a number of articles that he
collated for this book.
One of the articles, “This Changing World,” had
been discovered behind the mantel of a fireplace in
Napoleon’s boyhood home. It was written during the
Great Depression, probably near the end of 1930.
When the Depression struck, Napoleon was living with
family who provided him with secure employment.
However, to him, his acceptance of that security meant
that he had failed. So, in March 1931, Hill did exactly
what he needed to do - and perhaps exactly what
he shouldn’t have done: he quit his job and left for
Washington, DC.
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Top: Hill and his Principles of Success; Lower, left, Carnegie and Hill;
Lower right, Hill at a speaking engagement
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“
Whatever the mind
can conceive and
believe, the mind
can achieve.
”
—Napoleon Hill
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By this time, Napoleon’s list of failed business ventures
was impressive. His decision to try once more to
succeed on his own must have been founded in faith -
he certainly possessed little else. The article retrieved
from behind the mantel provides an understanding of
that faith and insight into why Napoleon later left family
and security for Washington, DC, during a worldwide
depression. “This Changing World” answers many
persistent questions concerning Napoleon’s spiritual
views.
Don also located two copies of one of Napoleon’s
earliest speeches, “What I Learned from Analyzing
Ten Thousand People.” One had been stored in the
Napoleon Hill Foundation archives, and the other had
been published in the February 1918 issue of “Modern
Methods.” Napoleon wrote the speech while serving as
dean of the George Washington Institute of Advertising
(now the Bryant & Stratton Business College of Chicago),
where he later became president and director of the
Salesmanship and Advertising Department.
In this speech, Napoleon talks about the five “requisites”
for success: self-confidence, enthusiasm, concentration,
a working plan, and the habit of performing more and
better services than paid for. It reveals Napoleon’s early
thinking about three of what would become some of his
principles of success: Enthusiasm, Controlled Attention,
and Going the Extra Mile. Later he grouped the requisite
of “self-confidence” under the heading of Enthusiasm,
and “a working plan” became part of the process of
achieving a Definite Major Purpose. Although Napoleon
understood the importance of Andrew Carnegie’s
“Master Mind” idea, he did not mention it in this speech.
I suspect it just wasn’t pertinent for an audience of a
salesman who tend toward having individual pathways to
success.
At the end of 1952, Napoleon left his wife, Annie Lou, in
California for a year while he worked with W. Clement
Stone on a number of projects. For several months he
and Stone toured together on the lecture circuit, with
Stone often introducing Napoleon as a keynote speaker.
Don discovered a recording of one of these keynotes
titled “Maker of Miracle Men” and had it transcribed
for this book. It is perhaps the most interesting of
his finds because it faithfully depicts Napoleon in
extemporaneous mode. Napoleon’s wit and spellbinding
oratory is palpable in the prose.
By the middle of the 1950s, Napoleon was well known
nationally as a speaker. His lectures had spread to radio
and television, and Pacific International University had
awarded him an honorary doctor of literature degree.
In 1957, Salem College invited him back to give a
baccalaureate sermon and to receive a second honorary
doctorate.
Left, Hill and wife, Annie Lou
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By this time, Napoleon’ ideas about success had matured
until they had morphed into concrete principles. Instead
of lecturing about the five requisites for success, he
covers in the baccalaureate sermon, titled “The Five
Essentials of Success,” the five most important principles
of success. Like the 1922 commencement speech, it too
was applauded wildly by his audience It is interesting
to note that after thirty-five years of thought, only Going
the Extra Mile among the original five 1922 requisites for
success remained essential in Napoleon’s mind. The other
requisites had been replaced by four essential principles:
Master Mind, Definiteness of Purpose, Self-Discipline, and
Applied Faith.
While each of the speeches and articles in this collection
stands alone, together they show how Napoleon’s ideas
evolved as his thought matured and coalesced into a
comprehensive philosophy of success. The aggregated
material truly has greater significance than its parts.
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Top: Hill at a speaking engagement; Lower, a letter from William Taft, former President
of the United States and tenth Chief Justice, written to Hill in 1927

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Don Green
selected as recipient of
Helping Heroes USA AWARD
“
Nothing gives me greater
pleasure than being afforded
the opportunity to help others
discover their true potential.
Left, Don Green at the Napoleon Hill Foundtion Archives;
Above, The Helping Heroes Award given to Green
—Don M. Green
Don Green, Chief Executive Officer
of The Napoleon Hill Foundation
has been named as the recipient
for the Helping Heroes USA Hero
Award 2020. The award is given to an
outstanding citizen who has served
to create a domino effect of unselfish
positive team developments in both
business and society because of their
contributions and efforts on behalf of
the betterment of others.
“Dr. Napoleon Hill, and the Napoleon
Hill Foundation executive team, which
is now led by a true leader, Mr. Don
Green made themselves available and
are helping Heroes USA, every day,”
said Tony DeMaio, Founder of Helping
Heroes USA and Heroes Everywhere.
“The veterans join me in saying a BIG
Thank You for your treasure trove
of shared wisdom. We have used
many of your lessons to help us grow
numerous businesses and get them
started down the right path of thinking
and growing rich.”
Helping Heroes USA is a non-profit
organization founded by dedicated
and committed to assisting military
veterans first responders and others
combating Post Traumatic Stress
Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury
with innovative solutions.
LuAn Mitchell, President of Helping
Heroes USA and Co-owner of Big
Media USA shared, “I am thrilled to
have been chosen as the fortunate
”
woman who has been given the honor
and privilege to announce that Mr.
Green is the recipient of our Hero
Award!”
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“I cannot think of anyone more
deserving than him for this prestigious
award,” she said. “He does us all
proud.”
Green is a guest on an upcoming
podcast with Mitchell and is featured
in the upcoming edition of Informed
People Magazine set to be released
this month.
Graduating with a BA (Accounting and
Business) degree from East Tennessee
State University, he went on to study
advanced phases of banking at the
Stonier Graduate School of Banking
at Rutgers. With banking as his
youthful passion, Green worked his
way up from the bottom rung of the
banking industry to bank president
and CEO—a position he served for
nearly 20 years.
His accomplishments were matched
by his diverse contributions to
community and the commercial
fraternity. His public offices
spanned a spectrum that included
educational institutions, hospitals,
charitable causes, community
service organizations, and arbitration
boards. He was president of his
county’s Chamber of Commerce and
president of the Foundation Board
of the University of Virginia’s College
at Wise—a position in which he still
serves. Green is also a board member
of the UVA/Wise Board of Trustees.
His memberships include the Hoge
Masonic Lodge, the Kiwanis Club,
and the Shriners movement.
Green received the Outstanding
Citizen of the Year Award in 1996;
the Sam Walton Business Leader
Award in 1998; the William P. Canto
Memorial Education Award in 1999;
and the Volunteer of the Year Award
(University of Virginia) in 2000. He
organized and was successful in
getting the 3-hour credit course,
Keys to Success, included in the
UVA/Wise curriculum based on the
success principles of Napoleon Hill.
Green taught the course for several
years. Under his leadership, many
scholarships have been endowed as
well as fully funding a Napoleon Hill
professorship.
Click here to view LuAn Mitchell’s
exclusive interview with Don Green!
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GREEN SHARES HOW HE
USED NAPOLEON HILL’S
PRINCIPLES TO FIND HIS
OWN SUCCESS
In 1937, Napoleon Hill changed the
world with THINK AND GROW RICH.
Now his legacy can be yours.
In 1937, one man changed the face of
entrepreneurship forever with a single
book.
Napoleon Hill’s landmark Think and
Grow Rich remains one of the biggest
bestsellers of all time, with over 100
million copies in print and translated
into more than 50 languages. Hill’s
philosophy of personal achievement,
wealth, and empowerment created
millionaires the world over. At the
present time, the principles behind
Think and Grow Rich are more vital--
and relevant--than ever before.
Are you ready to put the power of
Napoleon Hill to work for you?
In this new book, the Napoleon Hill
Foundation’s own executive director
puts Hill’s essential principles right at
your fingertips.
Filled with fascinating stories from
Dolly Parton, Jeffrey Gitomer, Chief
Poly Emenike, and Joe Dudley, Jr.-
-iconic figures who each applied
Hill’s principles to their own lives,
Everything I Know About Success
I Learned from Napoleon Hill lays
out the tools needed to uncover the
secrets of growth, creativity, power,
and achievement inside all of us.
It’s an essential playbook for any
business professional seeking the
knowledge and inspiration necessary
to discard fear and attain the goals of
personal and professional triumph.
The author also details
Napoleon Hill’s influence on
his own success, growing up
in rural Virginia and moving on
to become a bank CEO at just
41 years old.
Everything I Know About
Success I Learned from
Napoleon Hill teaches you
how to:
* Utilize creative visualizations
* Formulate actionable plans
* Lift yourself out of the “rut of
mediocrity”
* Incorporate discipline and practice
into your game plan for success
If you’re ready to apply Hill’s timetested
tools for success and make
your dreams a reality using the original
principles of personal achievement,
this is the book for you.
“This book is proof that dynamite
comes in small packages.” -- Les
Brown, noted author and motivational
speaker
“Life lessons come in two forms:
theoretical lessons and life
experiences. In Everything I Know
About Success I Learned from
Napoleon Hill, Don has married the
theoretical and the practical into one
powerful tool. He weaves the timeless
truths from the master, Napoleon
Hill, with his own life’s experience
of overwhelming success.” -- Jim
Stovall, bestselling author of The
Ultimate Gift
“[Don Green] shares his brilliance
and lifelong formula for success
with you in Everything I Know About
Success I Learned from Napoleon
Hill.” -- Sharon Lechter, co-author of
the Rich Dad Poor Dad series and
editor, Napoleon Hill’s Outwitting the
Devil
“Don Green has walked in the
footsteps of, and sat in the chair
of, Napoleon Hill and W. Clement
Stone. That alone would not make
him successful, were he not the
consummate student, the tireless
worker, and have the burning desire
to succeed. Combine that with his
wisdom and his ability to maintain
the highest level of ethics. Don
Green’s career has been a book that
has finally come to life--a book that
will inspire you to a thousand new
thoughts, and a million new dollars.”
-- Jeffrey Gitomer, author of The
Little Red Book of Selling
“Don has a simple way of sharing
meaningful insights that make you
want to stand up and cheer.” -- Ron
Glosser, former bank CEO and CEO
of Hershey Foundation
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A letter from the founder of Helping Heroes USA
Dear Don,
Over the years I have been very fortunate to be coached by many great mentors that taught me a
variety of lessons from the Classic Think and Grow Rich. The Internet has presented great potential
to grow a business, yet many people are just starting to take advantage of these vehicles to build their
own business. So many people want a guarantee that this is “here to stay” and others never thought
that it would have impact on the way they do business. Even today we have to give a big nudge to
people for them to get started using this great tool “the Internet,” to grow.
Back in 2006 (when Big Media USA got started) we were presented with the opportunity of a new
frontier - internet business – and Big Media USA was all in. As the founder of this brand new company I
had applied many principles taught in Think and Grow Rich to my corporate life and practice. Some of
those were these, number one, not procrastinating that one was one of the most important.
I have watched many businesses succeed and fail over the years because they either embrace or reject
a few key principals that Napoleon Hill addresses in the quotes below.
Napoleon Hill’s recipe for getting ready to get started:
“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.”
“Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.”
Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put
this plan into action.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been
done the day before yesterday.
Think and Grow Rich on Faith:
“Your own success or failure is based largely on your self-belief, and a mind-set of positive expectancy
is the foundation of which your success can be achieved.”
Back in 2017 I founded “Helping Heroes USA,” to help veterans and first responders combat PTSD. The
included picture is one of our bike rides from Jacksonville FL. To Atlanta GA. Our route was 700 miles
with many challenges. The encouragement and belief of all 150 esteemed veterans who teamed with us
made this ride possible.
Dr. Napoleon Hill, and the Napoleon Hill Foundation executive team, which is now led by a true leader,
Mr. Don Green made themselves available and are helping Heroes USA, every day!
The veterans join me in saying a BIG Thank You for your treasure trove of shared wisdom. We have
used many of your lessons to help us grow numerous businesses and get them started down the right
path of thinking and growing rich.
Tony DeMaio
Tony DeMaio
Founder Helping Heroes USA
HelpingHeroesUSA.org
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The Napoleon Hill Foundation Board of Trustees: Robert Johnson, Jr., General Counsel / Assistant Secretary, Mike Battle, Vice President / Treasurer,
Don Green, CEO / Executive Director, Phil Fuentes, President, Jim Oleson, Chairman, the late Charlie Johnson, former President, and James B. Hill,
Vice President of Communications
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Meet
MR. PMA
Known world-wide as both “Mister
Positive Mental Attitude,” and as,
“Mr. PMA,” he started-out with
nothing, saved a hundred dollars
as a young man, then went on to
build an insurance empire. In the
process of achieving major success
with insurance he became both a
tycoon and a philanthropist. When W.
Clement Stone died, after reaching the
age of 100, he was highly respected, a
beloved American citizen, and one of
the world’s wealthiest men.
Throughout his life, Stone continually
credited the self-help teachings of
Napoleon Hill for his success in the
highly competitive insurance industry,
Stone served as Executive Director
of The Napoleon Hill Foundation
for over forty years. Stone credited
the principles contained in Dr. Hill’s
classic best-selling book, Think And
Grow Rich, for his ability to grow a
$100 start-up company into a twobillion-dollar
insurance empire. During
his life Stone lost track of the number
of copies of Think And Grow Rich
that he gave away. to individuals, to
groups, and to organizations. Stone
also gave many copies of Hill’s How
To Sell Your Way Through Life.
Stone, married for 78-years to wife,
Jessie, loved to talk about self-help,
inspirational guidance, and personal
motivation. He enjoyed dancing
and motivating others to greater
achievements. During his lifetime he
gave away over $275 million to civic
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groups, charities, and worthy causes,
including to helping the needy. Stone
enabled large numbers of children to
complete their schooling. For over
50-years he was associated with
the Boys Clubs of America and the
Girls Clubs of Chicago. He gave one
million to Rev. Dr. Robert Schuller to
begin construction on the now worldfamous
Crystal Cathedral. When the
church was completed, Rev. Schuller
invited Stone to be the first to speak
to the congregation (in the finished
cathedral) as a lay person. Stone told
the congregation: “You need to read
Success Through a Positive Mental
Attitude. I will get each of you a copy.”
Later, a truck delivered over 7,000
copies of this book co-written by
Napoleon Hill and W. Clement Stone.
The Napoleon Hill Foundation
teaches Dr. Hill’s success principles,
or licenses them to be taught,
around the world. Stone’s financial
legacy still supports the Foundation.
Today the Napoleon Hill Foundation
accomplishes worthy objectives
world-wide. Courses such as the
distance learning course, the home
study course, and the “live” courses
at the University of Virginia, College
at Wise, all contribute greatly to
the dissemination of Hill’s success
philosophy. Specialized courses
offered at correctional institutions by
trained onsite counselors help enable
inmates to turn their lives around prior
to, and more importantly, after release.
Prisoners basically are people who do
not have the needed skills to make
a good living. Many prisoners can
barely read at the standard 6th-grade
level. Research shows that people
who cannot read have the odds for
success stacked against them.
Napoleon Hill was commissioned
by Andrew Carnegie in 1908 to
research and distill the principle of
personal achievement. Accepting the
commission, Napoleon Hill spent over
twenty years of his life completing the
material for his inspirational best seller
Law of Success (1928) and Think
And Grow Rich (1937). These and
other works by Dr. Hill earned worldwide
acclaim and many-many people
credited Dr. Hill’s philosophy as the
blue print for achieving goals and
success.
It was W. Clement Stone who stated,
‘Regardless of what you are or what
you have been, you can still become
what you may want to be.’ This vision
of further success in the future was
the reason W. Clement Stone coaxed
Dr. Napoleon Hill to come out of
retirement. Because of Stone’s strong
insistence that Dr. Hill’s work was
not yet complete, this well-proven
and highly respected philosophy
has since spread to private schools,
corporations, associations, prisons,
and college and university classrooms
both nationally and internationally.
Japan, Malaysia, China, South
Korea and India are just a few of
the international associates that

support the instruction conducted
by the Napoleon Hill Foundation.
Additionally, the Foundation maintains
a self-help library that is unique
because it houses volumes owned by
W. Clement Stone and donated to the
library that bears his name.
Foundation CEO, Don Green had the
opportunity to speak candidly with
W. Clement Stone not long before his
passing. Here are a few excerpts from
those conversations:
Don M. Green: What does PMA mean
today?
W. Clement Stone: At the age of
six, I sold newspapers on 31st and
Cottage Grove in the city of Chicago.
Today I am Chairman Emeritus of
a vast insurance group. There is a
relationship between the newsboy and
the chairman. Experience, know how,
W. Clemement Stone and Don M. Green
and sales activity knowledge. It is
also true that a successful president,
or financial planner, insurance
agent, executive, teacher, lawyer,
professional speaker, doctor, inventor,
scientist, philosopher, or artist is not
born. Each is self -made! Each is
measured by the results he obtains in
achieving. There are relatively few true
geniuses.
Every normal person has a brain and
a nervous system and is, therefore,
endowed with great mental capacities.
Few use and develop their natural
abilities sufficiently to reach the
many goals they could achieve. They
don’t pay the price to learn the art
of motivation with a positive mental
attitude. This applies to many of us.
You can develop your abilities more
fully in the future if you are motivated
to pay the price. This is what PMA
means today!
You can begin right now to develop
the wanting to and acquire the
necessary activity knowledge. Your
price? Regular invest ment in study,
thinking, and planning time, plus
following through with action work!
Given the necessary experience of
doing the right thing the right way, you
get the right results con sistently. And
when you do, work becomes fun. This
I learned from experience.
Green: Would you explain your theory
that every problem has a solution?
Stone: As a paperboy, I learned a lot
that helped me later as a salesman,
sales manager, and executive, even
though I didn’t realize it at the time.
I know now that I began to learn
then. l tried to sell papers at 31st and
Cottage Grove, a then busy intersection.
The newsboys who were
older and bigger than me beat me up
to keep me from interfering with their
sales. That’s why I walked into the old
Hoelle’s Restaurant and completely
sold out my stock of newspapers. I
did not experience a personal defeat.
Green: What is a personal defeat?
Stone: A personal defeat may be
a final end, a stepping stone, or a
stumbling block, according to the way
you accept it.
Green: Can you tell me more about
being a paperboy?
Stone: As a paperboy, I also began to
learn how to overcome fear through
direct action. l learned the value of
persistence, and how to sell by using
a method others were afraid to use!
Cold can vassing! Calling on business
people in business places without an
appointment. That’s the way I sold
newspapers.
How Stone Sold Insurance
That’s also the way I sold insurance!
And that’s the reason I sold as many
accident policies in a single week as
many insur ance men sell in months.
Why? Because I had learned how to
recognize the principles of a given
activity, relate them to the needs of a
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“
Regardless of what you are or
what you have been, you can
still become what you may
want to be.
—W. Clement Stone
different activity, assimilate them into
the new cir cumstances, and apply
them effectively.
Green: Do you think the principles
you learned long ago still apply
today?
Stone: As a paperboy, I was
motivated by necessity. I had
borrowed the money to buy the
papers. I had to sell them to repay
the loan and make a profit. Also, as
an executive, necessity became a
wholesome motivating factor in the
solution of prob lems. In many of my
business activities, I have been able to
apply the principles I learned between
the ages of 6 and 14 when I was
selling newspapers.
Here are a few examples: As a
newspaper boy, I had borrowed
money and paid off my loan. As a
businessman, I borrowed large sums
from banks and, like the newspaper
boy, I recognized the value of repeat
business and returned to Hoelle’s
Restaurant daily.
As an insurance man, I called back
at the renewal date of the accident
policy to service my customers and
sell them the addi tional insurance. I
realized the value, as a newspaper
boy, in sell ing in large places
of business, and I applied this
knowledge later. As a paperboy, and
as a business man, I always made it a
practice to get the money at the time
of sale.
Green: Is sales worth it?
Stone: When endeavoring to come
to any decision concerning your
future, you may ask yourself whether
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”
it is worth it? A traveling salesman
may ask himself whether he is doing
poorly or well financially. This applies
to executives too, at all levels. I know
from experience.
Many years ago, I was selling in
Macomb, Illinois. I awakened at three
o’clock in the morning. The idea
of being away from my family was
particularly disturbing. “Is it worth it?”
I asked myself.
In my thought process that night,
I saw that I could achieve wealth
through building an organization
and saving money. Money could
do a great deal for my children,
my wife and me; also, we could be
benefactors to others. I realized
that within a specific period of time,
when my debts were cleared and the
business arrived at a given point, I
wouldn’t have to make the sacrifices.
On weighting the disadvantages and
the advantages, I decided that yes, it
was worth it. And, it has been.
Green: What specific tips or advice
would you like to leave for those
working as financial services
advisors?
Stone: There are six important keys:
• Direct your thoughts, control your
emotions, and you ordain your
destiny!
• You can develop your abilities more
fully in the future if you are willing to
pay the price.
• Use your mind power to achieve
high objectives through developing
your PMA and eliminating your
negative mental attitudes.
• Learn how to use the greatest
machine ever conceived, so awesome
that only God Himself could create it;
your brain and nervous system.
• A part of all you earn is yours to
keep, and if you cannot save money,
the seeds of greatness are not in you.
• Set a definite major goal. When you
set a definite major goal, you are apt
to recognize that which will help you
achieve it.
Green: How did you acquire your
philosophy of success moti vation?
Stone: When I was twelve years old, I
did not realize it then but
the fifty or more Horatio Alger books
I read that eventful summer had a
lasting, wholesome effect upon me.
They stimulated my imagination.
They subsequently motivated me to
desirable action.
The theme in each Horatio Alger book:
From rags to riches. The principles in
each: The hero becomes a success
because he was a man of character,
the villain was a failure because he
deceived and embezzled. The poor
boy could go from poverty to wealth,
from failure to success, he always
strove to do the right thing because it
was right.
The teenager of today has personal
problems. As a high school freshman,
I did too. And because I had personal
problems, I wanted to develop selfdiscipline
and will power to acquire
good habits and eliminate those I felt
were undesirable. I found no books
in our library that would inform me
how to do what I want ed to do. There
were plenty that told me what to do
but not how to do it! However, when
you know what you want you are apt
to recognize that which will help you
get it.
Because I knew what I wanted, I
recognized what might help me get it,
a coupon advertisement in a Chicago
newspaper for The Power of Will by
Frank Channing Haddock; I bought it.
This was my first inspirational selfhelp
action book. The Power of Will
gave me insight into the functioning of
the human mind. More importantly, I
began to see the principles that are so
obvi ous they aren’t generally seen.
What a thrill it was to know that I

possessed the greatest machine
ever conceived, so awesome that
it could only be creat ed by God
Himself, a brain, nervous system, and
the un-defin able human mind! And
even more exciting to know how I
could operate and use this machine
effectively to deliberately direct my
thoughts, control my emotions, and
achieve a worthwhile goal that didn’t
violate the laws of God or the rights
of my fellow man. I learned how to
motivate others and how to motivate
myself at will through such simple
techniques as the use of suggestion
and self-suggestion.
Green: What is motivation?
Stone: Motivation is that which
induces action or determines choice.
It is that which provides a motive. A
motive is an urge within the individual,
such as an instinct, emotion, habit,
impulse, desire, or idea that incites
him to action. It is the hope or other
force that moves the individual to
attempt to produce specific results.
Green: What are the principles of
success?
Stone: It isn’t necessary to think as
you read. But it is impera tive to think,
study, and learn how to consciously
use your brain power to motivate
yourself and others to desirable
action. If you do, you can achieve
anything in life you may desire that
doesn’t violate the laws of God or the
rights of your fellow men.
To motivate yourself to desirable
action in the future, prepare yourself
now. Be ready to recognize and grasp
each opportunity when it comes.
To be ready, decide now whether
it is worth it to you to pay the price
to think, concentrate, understand,
compre hend, and relate to yourself
the principles applicable to you as
you read self-help literature, be it an
inspiring poem, story, news paper
article, or magazine feature, book,
or when you listen to a motivating
cassette, lecture, sermon, the advice
of an expert of proven experience who
is trying to help you.
Green: How does a person motivate
himself or herself?
Stone: By learning how to use the
greatest machine ever con ceived! The
machine that is so awesome only God
Himself could create it -your brain and
nervous system!
Master the art of tapping into the
power of your subconscious through
your conscious mind regarding
emotions, instincts, feel ings,
tendencies, moods, the formation of
desirable habits, and the neutralizing,
or elimination, of the undesirable
objects of attention.
Learn how to use your mind power
to achieve high objectives through
developing PMA and eliminating
negative mental atti tudes.
Green: Do you believe PMA is
essential for success?
Stone: A positive mental attitude is
necessary for achieving worthwhile
success. Achievement is attained
through some combination of PMA
and definiteness of purpose with
one or more success principles.
PMA is the right attitude in a given
environment. We in America know
what it is for us, for we have inherited
the tenets of the Judeo-Christian
faiths on which our Constitution, laws,
and customs have been based.
A few illustrations on how you can
develop PMA: Strive to understand
and apply the golden rule, be
considerate and sensi tive to the
reactions of others, be sensitive to
your own reactions by controlling your
emotional responses to environmental
influ ences. Believe that any goal
that doesn’t violate the laws of God
or the rights of your fellow men
can be achieved. Develop what are
understood to be effective habits of
thought and action.
Green: Is more required?
Stone: Definiteness of purpose
combined with PMA is the starting
point of all worthwhile achievement.
Some authors use the term
“singleness of purpose” to indicate
definiteness of pur pose. However
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expressed, it means that you should
have one high, desirable, outstanding
goal and keep it ever before you. You
can have many goals that are nonconflicting
which help you to reach
your major definite goal. It is advisable
to have immediate, intermediate, and
distant objectives.
Green: After PMA and definiteness of
purpose, what is needed?
Stone: A burning desire suggests a
compulsive intent, an ardent, intense
feeling. An effective wat to turn a
want, wish or desire into a burning
desire is to write down your goal and
each day review it to constantly keep
your goal before you. A you develop
successful habits and learn through
experience; an evolutional process
will take place whereby you will be
warranted in selecting higher goals.
Aim higher and higher with each
achievement.
Your Extra Miles Bring Success!
Green: What is essential for achieving
any goal?
Stone: To achieve any objective,
or goal, including that of creating a
burning desire, it is imperative that
you go the extra mile. You must
apply extra concentrated effort in
your thinking and planning time with
regularity; establish desirable goals
by learning how to tap the power of
your subconscious mind through the
conscious; learn and apply successful
technique that motivate you to
action at will; and engage in personal
inspection with reg ularity to determine
whether you are on the right track
and head ed in the right direction so
that you don’t deviate from the path
that leads to the achievement of your
objectives.
Green: What is the new dimension
in going the extra mile that will prove
most beneficial?
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Stone: It is the deliberate application
of additional effort to think and act in
order to achieve worthwhile goals for
self-devel opment through the use of
your mind powers, to establish desirable
habits of thought and action in
following the principles of universal
law pertaining to your mind and body.
You can do it. You can prove it. You
can start right now.
Anything in your life worth having is
worth working for, and any thing worth
working for is worth praying for.
Prayer is your greatest power!
Those who pray daily for desirable
achievements intensify their desires.
Each of us has this ability. Many
authors in the inspirational self-help
action field, such as Dr. Norman
Vincent Peale and the great Napoleon
Hill, encourage people to visualize the
achievement of the goal they sincerely
desire.
To guarantee success, engage in daily
study, thinking, and planning time with
PMA regarding yourself, your family,
and how you can achieve your definite
goals, and learn how to use the power
of suggestion to influence others and
self-suggestion to influence yourself
as well.
Green: What are the two most
important self-motivators that you
advocate?
Stone: The two additional selfmotivators
are ‘With every adversity
there is a seed of equivalent or greater
benefit for those who have PMA,’ and
‘Success is achieved and maintained
by those who try with PMA.’
Green: Is personality important?
Stone: To think and grow rich it is
imperative that you develop the habit
of being sensitive to your reactions
to individuals, circumstances, and
events, and to the reactions of
individuals and groups to what you
say, write or do To acquire the true
riches of life, it is essential that you
develop a pleasing personality,
pleasing to yourself and others. And
when you sense your personality is
displeasing to yourself, you can make
a change for the better by developing
inspirational dissatisfaction.
Keep Your Big Mouth Shut!
Green: Do you advocate any ‘selftough
love?’
Stone: Yes! Why always argue, or
try to prove another person wrong,
regardless of how foolish his or her
logic may seem to you? In the words
of Frank Bettger, in his book, How
I Raised Myself From Failure To
Success In Selling, “Oh Lord, help me
keep my big mouth shut!”
When you have a problem with
another person, instead of always
blaming him or her, start with
yourself. Analyze what you can do
to bring about harmony, friendship,
respect, and desir able results. It’s
an interesting phenomenon: Those
individuals who are insensitive to the
feelings and reactions of others are
generally persons whose own feelings
get hurt the easiest.
To effectively be sensitive to the
reactions of other persons, memorize
the essence of the golden rule
as a self-motivator, and repeat it
many times daily until this becomes
imprinted in your subconscious mind
and flashes to your conscious mind
in time of need: Do unto others as
you would have others do unto you,
and don’t do unto others that which
you wouldn’t want others to do unto
you. The last portion contains the
principles that will help you become
sensitive to the reactions of others.
Green: How important are habits?
Stone: Habits? You have them.
Everyone has them. Some habits
are good, perhaps others are bad.
Many of you are aware of them, but
some that are undesirable you are
blinded to. Each begins in your mind
consciously or subconsciously, and
each can be developed and neutralized
or changed at will through the
proper use of your mind powers. You
have this power.
In school we are taught deductive and
inductive reasoning and the fallacy
that will result in starting with the
wrong premise in the one instance
and making the wrong inference
in the other. Accurate thinking and
common sense are in part the result
of experience. You can learn from

your own experience as well as that
of others when you learn how to
recognize, relate, facilitate principle,
and apply them in order to achieve
your goals.
Green: What is the price a person
must pay for success?
Stone: Pay the price to recognize,
understand, comprehend, relate,
assimilate, and apply the following
universal truth (use a dictionary if
necessary and check on the synonym
of any word that does have a
synonym).
You are the product of your heredity,
environment, physical body,
conscious and subconscious mind,
experience, habits of thought and
action, plus your particular position
and direction in time and space and
something more, involving powers
known and unknown.
Green: If a person could ask you,
“Who is responsible for my success?”
What would you answer?
Stone: You are! You are responsible
for your own success.
Green: Starting when?
Stone: Starting now!
Andrew Carnegie’s Mental Dynamite
is now available!
Along with other never before published material, this volume includes the
speech that inspired the worldwide bestseller Think and Grow Rich.
It is a revealing look at one man’s quest for understanding why some men
succeed, why others do not, and what makes success something that can
be replicated. This collection will provide you with some of Napoleon’s finest
speeches including:
* What I Have Learned From Analyzing 10,000 People
* The Man Who Has Had no Chance
* The Commencement Address at Salem College in Salem, West Virginia,
1922—likely his best-remembered and most- influential speech.
Napoleon Hill dedicated much of his life to solving what he called “the most
stupendous problem confronting the human race today.” That is, “How can I
get what I want?” As W. Clement Stone and thousands of others can attest,
Hill succeeded in this venture, and we now have a success philosophy that
Andrew Carnegie once saw as a possibility.
W. Clement Stone and Napoleon Hill
The pages within this book will tell you of the origins of a personal
development legacy. Order your copy today!
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Legacy?
Are you living a
A new publication titled The Gift of Giving, Living Your
Legacy, co-authored by Napoleon Hill Foundation CEO,
Don M. Green, and Olympic weightlifting champion, Jim
Stovall, has just been released. The book, endorsed by
the Foundation, traces the giving journeys of Stovall and
Green, who have implemented Napoleon Hill’s timeless
achievement principles to live a legacy of generosity.
Green, a former bank president, has worked to establish
several scholarships at The University of Virginia’s College
at Wise during his time as executive director of the
Foundation and is responsible for initiating more than two
million dollars in endowed gifts and scholarship to the
College.
Jim Stovall, a former investment broker has served as
President of the Emmy Award-winning Narrative Television
Network and has authored more than 40 books, including
the bestseller, The Ultimate Gift, which became a major
motion picture from 20th Century Fox starring James
Garner and Abigail Breslin. For his work in making
television accessible to our nation’s 13 million blind and
visually impaired people, The President’s Committee on
Equal Opportunity selected Jim Stovall as the Entrepreneur
of the Year and was also named International Humanitarian
of the Year.
privilege of working with Don Green and The Napoleon Hill
Foundation is unparalleled. I don’t know of any individual
or organization that embodies giving more than Don and
the Foundation.”
In The Gift of Giving, Jim Stovall discusses his commitment
to finding a driving passion and giving away $1 million
to it. He was a broke college student whose dreams of
playing in the NFL had been sidelined by a rare condition
causing progressive blindness. With the guidance of the
successful businessman Lee Braxton and a worn copy of
Think and Grow Rich, Jim brought himself from poverty
to prosperity and became an award-winning entrepreneur
and philanthropist. His journey connected him with
Don Green, the executive director of the Napoleon Hill
Foundation, who lives out his calling and continues Hill’s
work through the Foundation’s many philanthropic efforts.
Together, their stories address the rendering of service and
charity at every stage of one’s giving journey by identifying
opportunities for generosity and taking action on them.
The Stovall family’s connection with The Napoleon Hill
Foundation began years ago with a friendship between
Green and Jim Stovall. The Foundation has since compiled
a series of articles written by Jim, in the Wisdom for
Winners book series published by Sound Wisdom. Stovall
was also the featured speaker for The Napoleon Hill Day in
2016.
“Over the years, Jim and I have become good friends and
have wanted to do this project for some time,” said Green.
“Jim has been so helpful to the Foundation, and we both
recognize the value education has, so all of the proceeds
from this book will go to fund college scholarships.”
“The Gift of Giving, which I co-authored with Don Green of
The Napoleon Hill Foundation, may be the most important
book among the 48 I have authored to date,” said
Stovall in his syndicated column. “First and foremost, the
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Jim Stovall and Don M. Green

Why leave a legacy when you can
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When you realize that your success journey is really a
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Napoleon Hill, the legendary author of
the classic best seller Think and Grow
Rich, has been immortalized for his
contributions to the self-help genre. In
this never-before-published work Hill
shares his principles of success, key
habits that provide the basis for lifechanging
success. Success Habits
explains the fundamental rules that
lead to a prosperous life. From the
importance of having Definiteness of
Purpose to the inexorable influence
of the Cosmic Habit Force, Hill’s
principles offer a new way of thinking
about intention, self-discipline, and
the way we lead our lives.
Originally a series of radio talks
delivered in Paris, Missouri, Success
Habits is filled with personal
anecdotes and stories and is written
in an approachable, conversational
style. Hill’s insights apply to every
facet of life, inspiring readers to
leverage his principles to achieve
their own aspirations and create the
successful lives they have always
dreamed of.
Learn more
On the heels of the New York Times
bestseller The Ultimate Gift and
the major motion picture from 20th
Century Fox based on that book
Jim Stovall brings you Wisdom for
Winners, A Millionaire Mindset.
For more than a decade, Jim Stovall’s
Winner’s Wisdom syndicated columns
have been read and studied by highly
successful people around the globe.
Now, that same wit, wisdom and
millionaire experience is available for
you in this book.
Wisdom for Winners contains a unique
combination of guidance for the career
professional and the entrepreneur
combined with spiritual wisdom that
prompts self-reflection. Organized into
small sections, the material can be
read incrementally for greater impact.
“Jim Stovall’s life is proof of the
effectiveness of the millionaire
mindset, and a shining testament to
the principles found within this book.
In his easy to read style, Jim has put
together a collection of practical and
powerful success tips and tools.”
—Don Green, Executive Director of
The Napoleon Hill Foundation
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Your Way To Wealth
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As told by Napoleon Hill, Andrew
Carnegie gave Hill a few short
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on Carnegie’s ambitious challenge
of interviewing the world’s greatest
minds then document their common
success traits and strategies so the
average person could learn how to
become wealthy. Out of that challenge
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Positive Mental Attitude: A System
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This online distance learning course
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The class is based on and structured
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Realizing the impact Think and Grow Rich had on his personal and professional
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He bought the rights to teach the Think and Grow Rich philosophy from the
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countries around the world to teach this timeless Science of Success that has
impacted over 125 million people worldwide.
He has been inducted as a chancellor of Success University by Junior
Achievement and in Hollywood Movie “THINK AND GROW RICH --- THE
LEGACY”. The Napoleon Hill Foundation honored him with its prestigious
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recipients of this honor included Ted Turner and Earl Nightingale.)
He has been practicing Think and Grow Rich for over two decades and is
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