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Napoleon Hill
Oliver Napoleon Hill was an American self-help author and con man who is best known for his book Think and Grow Rich (1937), which is among the best-selling self-help books of all time. Hill's works insisted that fervid expectations are essential to improving one's life. Most of his books are promoted as expounding principles to achieve "success".
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culture · American author (1883–1970) · writer · essayist · journalist · professor · reporter · lawyer · jurist · also Napoleon Hill, Oliver Napoleon Hill, Hill
Born 26 October 1883 · Died 8 November 1970 · Q311644
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2026· 5 entries
“s life. Most of his books are promoted as expounding principles to achieve”
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Published video “🌟 Courage Is Proven Under Pressure...🌟”.
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Published video “Clarity and Contribution Define Your Circle...”.
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Published video “🌟 Clarity and Contribution Define Your Circle...🌟”.
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2025· 5 entries
Published video “🔥 Fearless Friday is HERE! 🔥#FearlessFriday #NapoleonHill #ThinkAndGrowRich #FaceYourFears”.
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Published video “🚀 Think Big Thursday 🚀 #ThinkBigThursday #NapoleonHill #ThinkAndGrowRich #SuccessMindset”.
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Published video “🏆 Winning Wednesday is HERE! 🏆 #VictoryMindset #ProgressIsWinning #successprinciples”.
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Published video “Don't wait. The time will never be just right. #takeactiontodaytuesday”.
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Published video “💪 #MondayMotivation from the Napoleon Hill Foundation:”.
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2024· 2 entries
Published video “About the Napoleon Hill Foundation's Inner Circle Collectables Auction going on now. #napoleonhill”.
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Published video “Two new journals have just been released by NHF featuring inspiration from Hill and W. Clement Stone”.
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2018· 1 entry
Published “Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines” in Journal of Extracellular Vesicles — cited 9,690 times.
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2016· 2 entries
Published “Endovascular thrombectomy after large-vessel ischaemic stroke: a meta-analysis of individual patient data from five randomised trials” in The Lancet — cited 7,216 times.
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Published “Analysis of protein-coding genetic variation in 60,706 humans” in Nature — cited 9,065 times.
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2015· 1 entry
Published “Combined Nivolumab and Ipilimumab or Monotherapy in Untreated Melanoma” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 6,994 times.
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2014· 1 entry
Published “The International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics consensus statement on the scope and appropriate use of the term probiotic” in Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology — cited 8,638 times.
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2011· 2 entries
Published “Solutions for a cultivated planet” in Nature — cited 6,877 times.
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Published “SEVEN-YEAR<i>WILKINSON MICROWAVE ANISOTROPY PROBE</i>(<i>WMAP</i>) OBSERVATIONS: COSMOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION” in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series — cited 6,925 times.
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2007· 2 entries
Published “Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls” in Nature — cited 7,937 times.
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Published “Detection of individual gas molecules adsorbed on graphene” in Nature Materials — cited 7,472 times.
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2000· 1 entry
Published “Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology” in Nature Genetics — cited 36,993 times.
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1995· 1 entry
The authorized biography of Hill's life, A Lifetime of Riches, was released by Michael J
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1970· 5 entries
Died 1970-11-08.
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“Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.”
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The foundation and his widow Annie Lou were embroiled in a protracted court battle over the estate, which lasted into the 1980s
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“El dinero sin cerebro siempe es peligroso.”
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“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and burning desire, can be translated into riches. Use auto-suggestion, have faith, imagination and overcome fear and time is your opposite player as in checkerboard.”
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1963· 1 entry
Founded the Napoleon Hill Foundation
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1952· 2 entries
Launched a new scam selling courses about success in Missouri
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Published “The Elastic Behaviour of a Crystalline Aggregate” in Proceedings of the Physical Society. Section A — cited 10,591 times.
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1947· 1 entry
Briefly hosted a show on KFWB Radio in Los Angeles
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1942· 1 entry
Schafer claimed that Napoleon had been to blame
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1941· 2 entries
The child was returned to her biological mother
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Hill published Mental Dynamite, but it was a commercial failure
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1937· 1 entry
Hill published the bestselling book Think and Grow Rich, which became Hill's best-known work
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1923· 1 entry
It was exposed by local newspapers as a scam
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1922· 1 entry
Opened the Intra-Wall Correspondence School, a charitable foundation intended to provide educational materials to prisoners in Ohio
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1919· 1 entry
The Federal Trade Commission brought charges against Hill and Hill's Golden Rule for fraudulent advertising and laundering funds meant for a veteran's charity into a fraudulent oil stock scheme
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1918· 3 entries
The Chicago Tribune reported that the state of Illinois had issued two warrants for his arrest, charging him with violating blue sky laws by fraudulently attempting to sell shares of his school at a $100,000 capitalizati
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Following the collapse of GWI that Woodrow Wilson personally reached out to Hill for his help winning the First World War; Hill claimed that Wilson offered him large sums for his aid but that he did not accept any paymen
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Following allegations of fraud made by students
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1917· 1 entry
Hill threatened the Illinois Central Railroad with a lawsuit due to low lighting in their cars allegedly making him need glasses
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1909· 1 entry
Founded the Automobile College of Washington
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1908· 1 entry
That Hill claims his pivotal conversation with Andrew Carnegie happened; however, the existence of such a meeting is a point of contention amongst Hill biographers
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1907· 1 entry
And co-founded the Acree-Hill Lumber Company
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1903· 1 entry
Hill married for the second time to Edith Whitman; in 1905 their child Edith Whitman Hill was born
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1901· 1 entry
Hill accepted a job working for the lawyer Rufus A
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1883· 1 entry
Born 1883-10-26.
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