The Very Beginning - The first sentences of "The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons" by Napoleon Hill

"The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons" by Napoleon Hill is the first practical philosophy of success

In 1908, Andrew Carnegie, steel-billionaire and philanthropist, commissioned young reporter Napoleon Hill with writing a philosophy of personal success. Napoleon Hill worked 20 years on that task. He interviewed more than 500 wealthy men and women to extract the eternal laws of success that Andrew Carnegie postulated. By 1928, Napoleon Hill eventually published "The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons", the book that turned out to be predecessor to Napoleon Hill's biggest success ever: "Think and Grow Rich".

The following words are the first sentences in Napoleon Hill's "The Law of Success in 16 Lessons". They mark the beginning of a success-story of its own and the accomplishment of a task that took 20 years to accomplish:

THE LAW  OF 
SUCCESS
IN SIXTEEN LESSONS
 
Teaching, for the First Time in the History of the World,
the True Philosophy upon which all Personal Success is Built.
 
BY NAPOLEON HILL
 
General Introduction to the
LAW OF SUCCESS COURSE
By Napoleon Hill
 
Dedicated to
 
ANDREW CARNEGIE
 
Who suggested the writing of the course, and to
 
HENRY FORD
 
Whose astounding achievements form the
foundation for practically all of the Sixteen
Lessons of the course, and to
 
EDWIN C. BARNES
 
A business associate of Thomas A. Edison,
whose close personal friendship over a period
of more than fifteen years served to help the
author “carry on” in the face of a great variety
of adversities and much temporary defeat
met with in organizing the course.
 
 
"WHO said it could not be done?
And what great victories has he to
his credit which qualify him to judge
others accurately?"  
Napoleon Hill.

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