Napoleon Hill

Napoleon Hill was born on October 26, 1883, in the Appalachian town of Pound in southwest Virginia. His father’s name is James Monroe Hill and his mother’s name is Sarah Sylvania (Blair), U.S. He was an American self-help author.

He graduated from high school and moved to Tazewell, Virginia, to attend business school. In 1901, Hill accepted a job working for the lawyer Rufus A. Ayers, a coal magnate, and former Virginia attorney general.

His works insisted that fervid expectations are essential to improving one’s life. Most of his books were promoted as expounding principles to achieve “success”. He 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. Gizmodo has called him “the most famous conman you’ve probably never heard of”