文档介绍：TTHHEE
LLAAWW OOFF
EESSSS
IN SIXTEEN LESSONS
Teaching, for the First Time in the
History of the World, the True Philos-
ophy upon which all Personal ess
is Built.
BY
NAPOLEON HILL
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PUBLISHED BY
The RALSTON UNIVERSITY PRESS
MERIDEN, CONN.
COPYRIGHT, 1928, BY
NAPOLEON HILL
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General Introduction
to the
LAW OF ESS
COURSE
By Napoleon Hill
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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 Six-
teen 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 anizing
the course.
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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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A PERSONAL STATEMENT BY THE
AUTHOR
Some thirty years ago a young clergyman by the
name of Gunsaulus announced in the newspapers of
Chicago that he would preach a sermon the
following Sunday morning entitled:
"WHAT I WOULD DO IF I HAD A MILLION
DOLLARS!"
The announcement caught the eye of Philip D.
Armour, the wealthy packing-house king, who
decided to hear the sermon.
In his sermon Dr. Gunsaulus pictured a great
school of technology where young men and young
women could be taught how to eed in life by
developing the ability to THINK in practical rather
than in theoretical terms; where they would be
taught to "learn by doing." "If I had a million