Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Tarcher Perigee
BBB Library: Business Classics, Personal Success
ISBN: 978-1585424337
Is there a certain key to riches? A surefire secret to riches that is established and proven? If a secret like that exists, it can only be found in the minds of the most successful men on earth, people who built an empire from scratch. That was the task given to book author Napoleon Hill by Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie challenged Hill to spend 20 years of his life exploring the money-making secret or formula and take it to the world, to people who would fail without it. Hill accepted the challenge. He realized the magnitude of the task, but he also realized the opportunity; he realized the tremendous shift that could happen in people if he managed to finish his mission successfully.
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