Think and Grow Rich!

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The secret was brought Hill, at age 25, was a freelance journalist trying to earn money to go to law school at Georgetown University when his famous interview with the industrialist took place. Carnegie) was in the middle of his philanthropic years, busy giving away $350 million of his vast fortune for charitable purposes (more than $6.5 billion in today’s dollars. It was the fall of 1908, and Hill had visited Carnegie for an interview for Bob Taylor’s Magazine. The rapport that developed between the old industrialist and the young journalist resulted not merely in a three-hour interview, but a three-day,
three-night marathon discussion (with timeout for sleep and meals) in which Carnegie enthusiastically spelled out in detail the principles he had followed and the practical steps he had taken in amassing one of
America’s and the world’s greatest fortunes.
The old Scotsman was a fascinating figure. He had immigrated to the United States from Scotland at age 13, settling with his family in
Allegheny, Pennsylvania. Poor and with little formal education, he went to work first in a cotton factory, then (like Thomas Edison) in a telegraph office, and then for the Pennsylvania Railroad. By 1859 he had become head of the railroad’s western division, at the age of It is clear from his rapid advancement that Carnegie had keen powers of observation, great personal initiative, and an almost instinctive grasp of the principles of success. He used all those traits,
plus an enormous capacity for hard work, to create a thriving steel- making business after leaving the railroad in 1865. By 1899 he had consolidated various holdings into the Carnegie Steel Company. In

1901 he sold the company to a group headed by financier-industrialist
J. P. Morgan for some $400 million ($7.4 billion in today’s dollars).
Carnegie devoted the remainder of his life to philanthropic causes. He established some 2,500 public libraries, founded the
Carnegie Institute of Technology (later Carnegie-Mellon University),
and in 1911 established his major philanthropy, the Carnegie
Foundation, to promote the advancement and diffusion of knowledge One of his most significant, if less well-publicized and recognized achievements was, of course, starting the young Napoleon
Hill off on the journey that led to Hill’s interviews with some of the world’s greatest achievers—and to the systematic development of the principles of success and The Think and Grow Rich Philosophy, which
Carnegie wished to make available to all individuals, no matter what their background or personal circumstances.
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Arthur Nash Arthur Nash (1870-1927) was originally a minister
(Disciples of Christ) who left the pulpit fora career in the garment industry. After only seven years in the business, he had founded the
Arthur Nash Company, a wholesale tailoring concern in Cincinnati.
The Nash Plan in which workers co-owned the business, was one of his management innovations. Nash is the author of The Golden Rule of
Business, a popular business book in the early 1920s.
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