“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
–Napoleon Hill
Oliver Napoleon Hill (born October 26, 1883 – November 8, 1970) was an American journalist, lecturer and self-help author. Born in Greenville, South Carolina, he is known best for his book Think and Grow Rich (1937) which is among the 10 best selling self-help books of all time. Hill’s works insisted that fervid expectations are essential to improving one’s life. Most of his books were promoted as expounding principles to achieve “success”.
Hill is, in modern times, a controversial figure. Accused of fraud, modern historians also doubt many of his claims, such as that he met Andrew Carnegie and that he was an attorney. Design, technology and science fiction website Gizmodo has called him “the most famous con man you’ve probably never heard of”.