Talk:The Law of Success

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Law of Success is a book that has been used in a motivational centre in Malaysia: KERSANI Training Centre. Below are the contents of Law of Sucess.

01. POWER- what it is and how to create and use it. 02. CO-OPERATION - the psychology of co-operative effort and how to use it constructively. 03. THE MASTER MIND - how it is created through harmony of purpose and effort, between two or more people. 04. HENRY FORD, THOMAS A. EDISON and HARVEY S.FIRESTONE -the secret of their power and wealth.

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It's on Cleanup, but I think this should either a delete, or a redirect to Napoleon Hill. The article was started by an anon in May 2004 and hasn't been worked on since. Suspect the intention was to promote the website for "a motivational centre in Malaysia: KERSANI Training Centre where the book "has been used." The website isn't in English so I can't find out from the site what the book is or how it's used.

I can't even tell for sure what book is being discussed&mdash;the author isn't named!

I'm guessing it's The Law of Success by Napoleon Hill. Amazon shows it as only available hardbound and in audio book format; I'm surprised it's not in paperback; this suggests to me that connoisseurs of the success oeuvre regard it as far less significant than Think and Grow Rich. Sales rank of one volume of the hardbound edition is 91,661. (Amazon sales rank of Think and Grow Rich is 391!!!!) So, the book itself is borderline; if someone deeply familiar with it actually wanted to do a good whole article on it, that would be OK, but it's not anything we actually need.

Actually the book described in the article not seem to match perfectly with descriptions of the Napoleon Hill book, as it says there are forty chapters altogether, and the Amazon reference is entitled "The Law of Success In Sixteen Lessons," while as everybody knows (i.e. it's in another book title and is mentioned in our article on Think and Grow Rich) Hill had seventeen principles of success.

Judging by past history, I think it is very, very unlikely that the original author or anyone else is going to do much with it. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 15:02, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * Delete. Critical information (i.e. author, date of publication) is not only unknown but, given the scant information provided, also virtually unknowable, unless someone should come along who actually owns a copy. --Smack 18:19, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Ambi 21:42, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete - can't tell what it's about, and author's had since may to fix it up. -- Cyrius|&#9998; 05:17, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * OK, since Napoleon Hill did, in fact, write a book with that title I've just made it into a redirect to Napoleon Hill. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 22:58, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * OK, Since this book did exist and is the original book submitted and published but was later retracted by the publisher for politically sensitive reasons. The Global Information Network lists it and quote from it in their seminars by people who have original copies of the book. The contents are consistent with what I have studied about it User:Mkevlar

Its time to end the discussion for removal and leave the page up

Citation tag removal
Its time to remove the tag. There are enough links to substantiate credibility. 2014-10-30 User:Mkevlar

Sufficient time has passed for discussion. I am removing the tag. 2015-01-15 User:Mkevlar  — Preceding undated comment added 14:19, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
 * But.... there are no references whatsoever... Herostratus (talk) 15:54, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

More information
I feel the information about the content of the book needs to be elaborated. Since Im reading and rereading the book. I would like to contribute. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sharvari GC (talk • contribs) 10:31, 16 February 2016 (UTC)

Hill's Claims
"The work was originally commissioned at the request of Andrew Carnegie at the conclusion of a multi-day interview with Hill, and was based upon interviews of over 100 American millionaires across nearly 20 years, including such self-made industrial giants as Henry Ford, J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Alexander Graham Bell, and Thomas Edison. "

Is there any evidence for this claim?

Captain Basil (talk) 09:45, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Version Authenticity
Having read both "the law of success in 16 lessons" (electronic edition) and hard cover "The Law of Success - original 1925" edition by ORNE Publishing, I found the electronic edition had page discrepancies and some continuity issues, none of which were present in Hard Cover copy edition. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mkevlar (talk • contribs) 07:37, 27 November 2014 (UTC)