teams, productivity programs and profit sharing—just about the whole scope of modern management theory and practice.
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If you have any doubt Napoleon Hill obviously was not superstitious,
having no qualms about the number 13. It is certainly possible that he chose it intentionally
as an attention-grabber, although, more likely, it was simply the number of the most basic success principles he arrived at after distilling his years of research and analysis down to the most elemental level. One can almost
hear him emphatically saying,
“Well, if 13 is how many principles there are, then 13 they shall be!”
While Hill at times exhibits mystical qualities, he is first and foremost a rationalist. He states emphatically in Chapter 13: “ I am not a believer in nor an advocate of miracles for the reason that I have enough knowledge
of Nature to understand that Nature never deviatesfrom her established laws. Some of her laws are so incomprehensible that they produce what appear to be ‘miracles.’”
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