BEST Napoleon Hill Books & Quotes of All Time (February 2023)

by Arthur Worsley
M.A. Psychology, Oxford. McKinsey Alum. Founder & Editor at TAoL.

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Contents

1. Who Was Napoleon Hill?

2. The Best Napoleon Hill Books of All Time

3. More Books Like Napoleon Hill's Books

4. Best Napoleon Hill Quotes

5. Wish There Was a Faster/Easier Way?

Who Was Napoleon Hill?

Napoleon Hill (October 26, 1883 – November 8, 1970) was an American self-help author. He is best known for his book Think and Grow Rich (1937), which is among the 10 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 were promoted as expounding principles to achieve "success".

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The Best Napoleon Hill Books of All Time

Why these best Napoleon Hill books and not others? To stay objective, I rank all my book recommendations by a combination of what’s most loved (Goodreads rating), what’s most popular (Goodreads review count) and what’s proven timlessly relevant (first publication date).

This isn’t a whimsical list. It’s a data-driven, crowdsourced collection of the best Napoleon Hill books ever published as decided by book lovers like you.

And if you think something's missing? I LOVE book recommendations so if there are any other books by Napoleon Hill that you think deserve mentioning, email me and I’ll be sure to include them in the next round of updates.

Until then, here are the best Napoleon Hill books of all time...

Best Napoleon Hill Books: Law of Success

1. Law of Success - Napoleon Hill

Published 1925 // 1,035 pages // Rated 4.3 over 11,100 reviews on Goodreads

Best Napoleon Hill Books: Think and Grow Rich

2. Think and Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill (FREE Summary)

Think and Grow Rich is a best-selling book of all time and a cornerstone guide to the Law of Attraction and the role of the subconscious in transforming your life - by a titan of the self-help genre, Napoleon Hill.

Published 1937 // 233 pages // Rated 4.2 over 254,900 reviews on Goodreads

Best Napoleon Hill Books: The Master-Key to Riches

3. The Master-Key to Riches - Napoleon Hill (FREE Summary)

The Master-Key to Riches is an accessible self help manual that covers everything from positive thinking and goal visualization to habit formation and self-discipline - by titan of the genre and author of Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill.

Published 1945 // 208 pages // Rated 4.3 over 5,200 reviews on Goodreads

Best Napoleon Hill Books: Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude

4. Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude - Napoleon Hill

Published 1960 // 384 pages // Rated 4.2 over 9,700 reviews on Goodreads

Best Napoleon Hill Books: Napoleon Hill's Keys to Success

5. Napoleon Hill's Keys to Success - Napoleon Hill

The 17 Principles of Personal Achievement

Published 1994 // 256 pages // Rated 4.3 over 2,400 reviews on Goodreads

6. Grow Rich! - Napoleon Hill

With Peace of Mind

Published 1967 // 256 pages // Rated 4.3 over 700 reviews on Goodreads

Best Napoleon Hill Books: The Think and Grow Rich Workbook

7. The Think and Grow Rich Workbook - Napoleon Hill

Published 2009 // 144 pages // Rated 4.4 over 900 reviews on Goodreads

Best Napoleon Hill Books: Outwitting the Devil

8. Outwitting the Devil - Napoleon Hill

The Secret to Freedom and Success

Published 2011 // 288 pages // Rated 4.2 over 11,500 reviews on Goodreads

Best Napoleon Hill Books: Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan

9. Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan - Napoleon Hill

365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success

Published 1995 // 208 pages // Rated 4.3 over 200 reviews on Goodreads

Best Napoleon Hill Books: How to Raise Your Own Salary

10. How to Raise Your Own Salary - Napoleon Hill

Published 2011 // 310 pages // Rated 4.5 over 200 reviews on Goodreads

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Best Napoleon Hill Quotes

Here are some of the best Napoleon Hill of all time...

"The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat."

- Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

Best Napoleon Hill Quotes: The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.

"You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be."

- Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

Best Napoleon Hill Quotes: You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.

"When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal."

- Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

"Before success comes in any man’s life, he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat, and, perhaps, some failure. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do. More than five hundred of the most successful men this country has ever known told the author their greatest success came just one step beyond the point at which defeat had overtaken them."

- Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

Best Napoleon Hill Quotes: Before success comes in any man’s life, he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat, and, perhaps, some failure. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do. More than five hundred of the most successful men this country has ever known told the author their greatest success came just one step beyond the point at which defeat had overtaken them.

"Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass."

- Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

"The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge."

- Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

"Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing."

- Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

"A quitter never wins and a winner never quits."

- Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

"An educated man is not, necessarily, one who has an abundance of general or specialized knowledge. An educated man is one who has so developed the faculties of his mind that he may acquire anything he wants, or its equivalent, without violating the rights of others."

- Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

"Every adversity, every failure, every heartbreak, carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit."

- Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

"A definite purpose, backed by absolute faith, is a form of wisdom and wisdom in action produces positive results."

- Napoleon Hill, The Master-Key to Riches

"Turn on the full powers of your will and take complete control of your own mind. It is your own mind! It was given to you as a servant to carry out your desires. And no one may enter it or influence it in the slightest degree without your consent and cooperation. What a profound fact this is!"

- Napoleon Hill, The Master-Key to Riches

Best Napoleon Hill Quotes: Turn on the full powers of your will and take complete control of your own mind. It is your own mind! It was given to you as a servant to carry out your desires. And no one may enter it or influence it in the slightest degree without your consent and cooperation. What a profound fact this is!

"A man’s ego in his greatest asset or his greatest liability, according to the way he relates himself to it."

- Napoleon Hill, The Master-Key to Riches

"There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants and a burning desire to achieve it."

- Napoleon Hill

"Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand and work with whatever tools you may have at our command, and better tools will be found as you go along."

- Napoleon Hill

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