Think and Grow Rich!



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The secret was passed Stuart Austin Wier (1894-1959) was an attorney, engineer, inventor, lecturer, and a prolific writer. According to Hill’s official biographer, Michael J. Ritt, Jr. (A Lifetime of Riches
written with Kirk Landers, 1995), Hill first met Wier in an oilfield in
Texas, and Wier became a lifelong confidant and Hill’s closest friend.
Wier was a native of Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, and was educated at
Louisiana State Normal College, Rice Institute, the University of
Chicago, Southern Methodist University, Cornell University, and
George Washington University. He served in the US. Army Engineer
Corps in World War I and from 1917 to 1920 was a construction engineer in Dallas, Wichita Falls (Texas, and Chicago. After the war he was a public lecturer under the auspices of the Chicago Welfare
League and Chicago newspapers. Wier and Hill were both well known on the lecture circuit. In 1925, after receiving his law degree, Wier

became a patent attorney who himself eventually held 40 US. and foreign patents. He was an author of wide-ranging interests, publishing books on law, Shakespeare, one titled How to Remember, and two that were no doubt of great interest to Hill—The Art and Science of Selling
and The Science and Art of Influence.
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While serving as Jesse Grant Chapline (1870-1937) was an educator and writer on sales and business topics. He founded LaSalle Extension
University in 1908. The school eventually offered correspondence courses on the professional level in such subjects as accounting, law,
business, and other fields. LaSalle Extension University advertisements were a staple of American home life in the sands. LaSalle was purchased by Crowell-Collier Publishing
Company in 1961. Originally based in Chicago on Dearborn Street, the school later moved to Wilmette, a suburb 15 miles north of the city.
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This secret was used According to at least one account, Hill and
Wilson first met when Wilson was serving as president of Princeton
University and Hill came to interview him bearing one of Andrew
Carnegie’s letters of introduction. According to Hill’s biographer,
when America entered World War I, Hill wrote to President Wilson to offer his services and was assigned to Wilson’s staff as a volunteer public information/public relations aide. It is not completely clear what
Hill was referring to here concerning the troop training and war funds effort. However, Wilson was obviously impressed by Hill’s work.
Years later, he would write to Hill May I congratulate you on your persistence. Any man who devotes that much time to the study of success]…must of necessity make discoveries of great value to others.
I am deeply impressed by your interpretation of the Master Mind’
principles which you have so clearly described.”
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