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Napoleon Hill

1883 – 1970 · United States · New Thought, Economics

Think and Grow Rich carried New Thought into business self-help; his sourcing remains disputed.

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Talks and interviews

Continuity of ideas

Who shaped Napoleon Hill, and who they shaped

Inherited from3

  • James Allen

    1864 – 1912 · New Thought, Literature

    As a Man Thinketh states the character-and-thought premise Hill operationalised.

  • Wallace Wattles

    1860 – 1911 · New Thought, Economics

    Wattles's success formula is the immediate ancestor of Think and Grow Rich.

  • William Walker Atkinson

    1862 – 1932 · New Thought, Literature

    Atkinson's New Thought publishing built the market and vocabulary Hill inherited.

Passed the work to2

  • Louise Hay

    1926 – 2017 · New Thought, Psychology

    Affirmation-and-autosuggestion technique passes into Hay's self-healing programme.

  • Norman Vincent Peale

    1898 – 1993 · New Thought, Theology

    The Power of Positive Thinking brings success-mind teaching into mainstream Protestantism.

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