Teaching, for the First Time in the History of the World, the True Philosophy upon which all Personal Success is Built. PUBLISHED BY THE RALSTON UNIVERSITY PRESS MERIDEN, CONN. COPYRIGHT, 1928, BY NAPOLEON HILL All Rights Reserved For More Free PDF Books on the Law of Attraction and Metaphysics Visit the Law of Attraction Haven. Click for More Free Books by Napoleon Hill. Contents A Personal Statement by the Author ........... 9 Lesson One: The Master Mind ................... 34 Your Six Most Dangerous Enemies .......... 233 General Introduction to the LAW OF SUCCESS COURSE By Napoleon Hill 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 Sixteen 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 in organizing the course. 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. 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 succeed 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 dollars," said the young preacher, "I would start such a school." After the sermon was over Mr. Armour walked down the aisle to the pulpit, introduced himself, and said, "Young man, I believe you could do all you said you could, and if you will come down to my office tomorrow morning, I will give you the million dollars you need." There is always plenty of capital for those who can create practical plans for using it. That was the beginning of the Armour Institute of Technology, one of the very practical schools of the country. The school was born in the "imagination" of a young man who never would have been heard of outside of the community in which he preached had it not been for the