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.
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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