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Napoleon Hill, the Glossary

Oliver Napoleon Hill (October 26, 1883 – November 8, 1970) was an American self-help author.^[1]

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Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell (born Alexander Bell; March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-born Canadian-American inventor, scientist and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone.

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Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com LLC is an American genealogy company based in Lehi, Utah.

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Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie (November 25, 1835August 11, 1919) was a Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist.

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Annulment

Annulment is a legal procedure within secular and religious legal systems for declaring a marriage null and void.

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Appalachia

Appalachia is a geographic region located in the central and southern sections of the Appalachian Mountains of the eastern United States.

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Ascended master

Ascended masters in a number of movements in the theosophical tradition are held to be spiritually enlightened beings who in past incarnations were ordinary humans, but who have undergone a series of spiritual transformations originally called initiations.

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Attorney General of Virginia

The attorney general of Virginia is an elected constitutional position that holds an executive office in the government of Virginia.

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In legal discourse, an author is the creator of an original work, whether that work is in written, graphic, or recorded medium.

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Bellhop

A bellhop (North America), or hotel porter (international), is a hotel employee who helps patrons with their luggage while checking in or out.

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Blue sky law

A blue sky law is a state law in the United States that regulates the offering and sale of securities to protect the public from fraud.

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Business school

A business school is a higher education institution or professional school that teaches courses leading to degrees in business administration or management.

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Capitalism

Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.

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Catskill Mountains

The Catskill Mountains, also known as the Catskills, are a physiographic province and subrange of the larger Appalachian Mountains, located in southeastern New York.

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Charles M. Schwab

Charles Michael Schwab (February 18, 1862 – September 18, 1939) was an American steel magnate.

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Chicago

Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.

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Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, owned by Tribune Publishing.

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Confidence

Confidence is the feeling of belief or trust that a person or thing is reliable.

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Connecticut

Connecticut is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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Corianton: A Story of Unholy Love

Corianton: A Story of Unholy Love is a 1931 American drama film based on the story of Corianton, the son of the prophet Alma in the Book of Mormon.

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Cyrus H. K. Curtis

Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis (June 18, 1850June 7, 1933) was an American publisher of magazines and newspapers, including the Ladies' Home Journal and The Saturday Evening Post.

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Dale Carnegie

Dale Carnegie (spelled Carnagey until c. 1922; November 24, 1888 – November 1, 1955) was an American writer and lecturer, and the developer of courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking, and interpersonal skills. Napoleon Hill and Dale Carnegie are American motivational writers and American self-help writers.

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Daniel Thew Wright

Daniel Thew Wright (September 24, 1864 – November 18, 1943) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.

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David Nasaw

David Nasaw (born July 18, 1945) is an American author, biographer and historian who specializes in the cultural, social and business history of early 20th Century America.

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Democracy

Democracy (from dēmokratía, dēmos 'people' and kratos 'rule') is a system of government in which state power is vested in the people or the general population of a state.

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Dentist

A dentist, also known as a dental surgeon, is a health care professional who specializes in dentistry, the branch of medicine focused on the teeth, gums, and mouth.

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Don Mellett

Donald Ring Mellett (September 26, 1891 – July 16, 1926) was an American newspaper editor who was assassinated after confronting local organized crime in his newspaper.

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Edward Bok

Edward William Bok (born Eduard Willem Gerard Cesar Hidde Bok) (October 9, 1863 – January 9, 1930) was a Dutch-born American editor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author.

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Elbert Henry Gary

Elbert Henry Gary (October 8, 1846August 15, 1927) was an American lawyer, county judge and business executive.

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Ellsworth Milton Statler

Ellsworth Milton (E. M.) Statler (October 26, 1863 – April 16, 1928) was an American hotel businessman, founder of the Statler Hotels chain, born in Somerset County, Pennsylvania.

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Elmer R. Gates

Elmer R. Gates (1859–1923), the son of Jacob and Phoebe Goetz, was an American scientist and inventor.

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Federal Trade Commission

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is an independent agency of the United States government whose principal mission is the enforcement of civil (non-criminal) antitrust law and the promotion of consumer protection.

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Fireside chats

The fireside chats were a series of evening radio addresses given by Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States, between 1933 and 1944.

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Florida

Florida is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Foreclosure

Foreclosure is a legal process in which a lender attempts to recover the balance of a loan from a borrower who has stopped making payments to the lender by forcing the sale of the asset used as the collateral for the loan.

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Foundation (nonprofit)

A foundation (also referred to as a charitable foundation) is a type of nonprofit organization or charitable trust that usually provides funding and support to other charitable organizations through grants, while also potentially participating directly in charitable activities.

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Frank A. Vanderlip

Frank Arthur Vanderlip Sr. (November 17, 1864 – June 30, 1937) was an American banker and journalist.

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Frank Winfield Woolworth

Frank Winfield Woolworth (April 13, 1852 – April 8, 1919) was an American entrepreneur, the founder of F. W. Woolworth Company, and the operator of variety stores known as "Five-and-Dimes" (5- and 10-cent stores or dime stores) which featured a selection of low-priced merchandise.

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Freedom

Freedom is the power or right to speak, act and change as one wants without hindrance or restraint.

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George Safford Parker

George Safford Parker (November 1, 1863 – July 19, 1937) was an American inventor and industrialist.

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Gizmodo

Gizmodo is a design, technology, science, and science fiction website.

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Golden Rule

The Golden Rule is the principle of treating others as one would want to be treated by them.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression (19291939) was a severe global economic downturn that affected many countries across the world.

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Greenville, South Carolina

Greenville (locally) is a city in and the county seat of Greenville County, South Carolina, United States.

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Harvey S. Firestone

Harvey Samuel Firestone Sr. (December 20, 1868 February 7, 1938) was an American businessman, and the founder of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, one of the first global makers of automobile tires.

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Henry Ford

Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American industrialist and business magnate.

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Honeymoon

A honeymoon is a holiday taken by newlyweds after their wedding to celebrate their marriage.

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Illinois Central Railroad

The Illinois Central Railroad, sometimes called the Main Line of Mid-America, was a railroad in the Central United States.

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James Bernard Schafer

James Bernard Schafer (1896 – April 26, 1955) was a man primarily known as the founder of a cult known as the Royal Fraternity of Master Metaphysicians and by an attempt to raise an "immortal baby". Napoleon Hill and James Bernard Schafer are American confidence tricksters.

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James J. Hill

James Jerome Hill (September 16, 1838 – May 29, 1916) was a Canadian-American railroad director.

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John Burroughs

John Burroughs (April 3, 1837 – March 29, 1921) was an American naturalist and nature essayist, active in the conservation movement in the United States.

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John C. Maxwell

John Calvin Maxwell (born February 20, 1947) is an American author, speaker, and pastor who has written many books, primarily focusing on leadership. Napoleon Hill and John C. Maxwell are American motivational writers and American self-help writers.

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John D. Rockefeller

John Davison Rockefeller Sr. (July 8, 1839 – May 23, 1937) was an American business magnate and philanthropist.

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John Wanamaker

John Wanamaker (July 11, 1838December 12, 1922) was an American merchant and religious, civic and political figure, considered by some to be a proponent of advertising and a "pioneer in marketing".

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Journalist

A journalist is a person who gathers information in the form of text, audio or pictures, processes it into a newsworthy form and disseminates it to the public.

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KFWB

KFWB (980 AM) is a commercial radio station in Los Angeles, California.

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La Salle Extension University

La Salle Extension University (LSEUDe Sola, Ralph (1981). Abbreviations dictionary. Elsevier), also styled as LaSalle Extension University,The university styled its name as both "La Salle" and "LaSalle" in print media.

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Law of attraction (New Thought)

The law of attraction is the New Thought spiritual belief that positive or negative thoughts bring positive or negative experiences into a person's life.

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Law school

A law school (also known as a law centre/center, college of law, or faculty of law) is an institution, professional school, or department of a college or university specializing in legal education, usually involved as part of a process for becoming a judge, lawyer, or other legal professional within a given jurisdiction.

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Lecturer

Lecturer is an academic rank within many universities, though the meaning of the term varies somewhat from country to country.

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Luther Burbank

Luther Burbank (March 7, 1849 – April 11, 1926) was an American botanist, horticulturist and pioneer in agricultural science.

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Mail and wire fraud

Mail fraud and wire fraud are terms used in the United States to describe the use of a physical (e.g., the U.S. Postal Service) or electronic (e.g., a phone, a telegram, a fax, or the Internet) mail system to defraud another, and are U.S. federal crimes.

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Manuel L. Quezon

Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina (19 August 1878 – 1 August 1944), also known by his initials MLQ, was a Filipino lawyer, statesman, soldier, and politician who was president of the Commonwealth of the Philippines from 1935 until his death in 1944.

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Mobile, Alabama

Mobile is a city and the county seat of Mobile County, Alabama, United States.

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Money laundering

Money laundering is the process of illegally concealing the origin of money, obtained from illicit activities such as drug trafficking, corruption, embezzlement or gambling, by converting it into a legitimate source.

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Mount Dora, Florida

Mount Dora is a city in Lake County, Florida.

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Multi-level marketing

Multi-level marketing (MLM), also called network marketing or pyramid selling, is a controversial marketing strategy for the sale of products or services in which the revenue of the MLM company is derived from a non-salaried workforce selling the company's products or services, while the earnings of the participants are derived from a pyramid-shaped or binary compensation commission system.

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New Thought

The New Thought movement (also Higher Thought) is a new religious movement that coalesced in the United States in the early 19th century.

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Non-fiction

Non-fiction (or nonfiction) is any document or media content that attempts, in good faith, to convey information only about the real world, rather than being grounded in imagination.

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Norman Vincent Peale

Norman Vincent Peale (May 31, 1898 – December 24, 1993) was an American Protestant clergyman, and an author best known for popularizing the concept of positive thinking, especially through his best-selling book The Power of Positive Thinking (1952). Napoleon Hill and Norman Vincent Peale are American self-help writers.

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Outwitting the Devil

Outwitting the Devil is a work of non-fiction that was written in 1938 by Napoleon Hill, which was considered too controversial to be published in its era.

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Pensacola News Journal

The Pensacola News Journal is a daily morning newspaper serving Escambia and Santa Rosa counties in Florida.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.

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Pound, Virginia

Pound is a town in Wise County, Virginia, United States.

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Rags to riches

Rags to riches (also rags-to-riches) refers to any situation in which a person rises from poverty to wealth, and in some cases from absolute obscurity to heights of fame, fortune and celebrity—sometimes instantly.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803April 27, 1882), who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.

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Rhonda Byrne

Rhonda Byrne (née Izon; born 1951, Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian television writer and producer.

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Rolls-Royce Motor Cars

Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Limited is a British luxury automobile maker that has operated as a wholly owned subsidiary of BMW AG since 2003 – as the exclusive manufacturer of Rolls-Royce-branded motor cars.

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Rotary International

Rotary International is one of the largest service organizations in the world.

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Rufus A. Ayers

Rufus Adolphus Ayers (May 20, 1849 – May 14, 1926) was a Virginia lawyer, businessman, and politician, who served as Attorney General of Virginia.

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Sales

Sales are activities related to selling or the number of goods sold in a given targeted time period.

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Self-help

Self-help or self-improvement is a self-directed improvement of oneself—economically, physically, intellectually, or emotionally—often with a substantial psychological basis.

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Southwest Virginia

Southwest Virginia, often abbreviated as SWVA, is a mountainous region of Virginia in the westernmost part of the commonwealth.

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Tazewell, Virginia

Tazewell is a town in Tazewell County, Virginia, United States.

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The Law of Success

The Law of Success is a book written by Napoleon Hill in 1925.

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The Secret (Byrne book)

The Secret is a 2006 self-help book by Rhonda Byrne, based on the earlier film of the same name.

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Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919), often referred to as Teddy or T.R., was an American politician, soldier, conservationist, historian, naturalist, explorer and writer who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_Hill

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