Self Help

NAPOLEON HILL, Author of the Law of Success.

The Author's Acknowledgment of Help Rendered Him in the Writing of This Course

This course is the result of careful analysis of the life-work of over one hundred men and women who have achieved unusual success in their respective callings. The author of the course has been more than twenty years in gathering, classifying, testing and organizing the Fifteen Laws upon which the course is based.

In his labor he has received valuable assistance either in person or by studying the life-work of the following men:

• Henry Ford
• Edward Bok
• Thomas A. Edison
• Cyrus H. K. Curtis
• Harvey S. Firestone
• George W. Perkins
• John D. Rockefeller
• Henry L. Doherty
• Charles M. Schwab
• George S. Parker
• Woodrow Wilson
• Dr. C. O. Henry
• Darwin P. Kingsley
• General Rufus
• Ayers
• Wm. Wrigley, Jr.
• Judge Elbert H. Gary
• D. Lasker
• William Howard Taft
• E. A. Filene
• Dr. Elmer Gates
• James J. Hill
• John W. Davis 11
• Captain George M. Alexander .
• Samuel Insul
• Judge Daniel T. Wright (One of the authors law instructors).
• Hugh Chalmers
• Dr. E. W. Strickler
• Elbert Hubbard
• Edwin C. Barnes
• Luther Burbank
• Robert L. Taylor (Fiddling Bob)
• O. H. Harriman
• John Burroughs
• George Eastman
• E. H. Harriman
• E. M. Statler
• Charles P. Steinmetz
• Andrew Carnegie
• Frank Vanderlip
• John Wanamaker
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Marshall Field
• Wm. H. French
• Dr. Alexander Graham Bell (To whom the author owes credit for most of Lesson One).

Of the men named, perhaps Henry Ford and Andrew Carnegie should be acknowledged as having contributed most toward the building of this course, for the reason that it was Andrew Carnegie who first suggested the writing of the course and Henry Ford whose life-work supplied much of the material out of which the course was developed.

Some of these men are now deceased, but to those who are still living the author wishes to make here grateful acknowledgment of the service they have rendered, without which this course never could have been written.

The author has studied the majority of these men at close range, in person. With many of them he enjoys, or did enjoy before their death, 12 the privilege of close personal friendship which enabled him to gather from their philosophy facts that would not have been available under other conditions.