The Law of Success

Happened to catch this informercial on CNBC.

This guy was hawking this book by Napoleon Hill of Think and Grow Rich fame.

The premise was that Think and Grow Rich is a very watered-down version of this original publication purportedly first printed in 1925 with a run of about 100 copies distributed.

Then came another (the official?) version in 1928. Then the popular Think and Grow Rich in 1937 [pdf here along with a number of other classics].

A search of Google brought this.

The 1928 version is available on the web here [also at archive.org] and in book form at Amazon. The book is from Wilshire Publishing [I remember them. That's Melvin Powers' company and at one time I tried to sell their books. I did like The Magic of Thinking Big from them.]

I see the book is $30 at Wilshire vs. $17.55 at Amazon (vs. $50 from the infomercial -- actually $49.95 plus $9.95 s/h). [Here's another site for his informercial. Don't know why there's two.]

And I see it's available on ebay for $28.95 (plus $3.99 shipping) from bigbluemonster.

Apparently the guy in the informercial is Steve Paris (from the website above). Googling Steve Paris shows the book is oddly available on itunes. The guy is on twitter with 124 followers (account created 11/26/09). His company is Orne Publishing which apparently only publishes this one book.

Here's something interesting. Orne Publishing interviewing Steve. In other words, Steve hired somebody to interview himself. (Hmm. Like an informercial..)

And there you have it. The Law of Success in practice (assuming Steve is making a profit at this).

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(See also The Secret)

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