Four gentlemen at your service: An U.S. President (WM. H. Taft), a plant wizard (Luther Burbank), a publisher (Edward W. Bok), another publisher (Frank A. Munsey) and, of course, Napoleon Hill, author of “Think and Grow Rich” on the right in the sidebar
Who’s Who in “Think and Grow Rich” Part 1
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William Howard Taft
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT (* September 15, 1857 in Cincinnati, Ohio; † March 8, 1930 in Washington D.C.) was the 27th President of the United States of America and later the 10th Chief Justice of the United States. WM H. Taft graduated from college and law school and then worked in several legal positions. By 1887 he was appointed an Ohio Supreme Court judge, later served under President William McKinley and President Theodore Roosevelt, who appointed Taft Secretary of War in 1904. According to Wikipedia, “President Taft’s domestic agenda emphasized trust-busting, civil service reform, strengthening the Interstate Commerce Commission, improving the performance of the postal service, and passage of the Sixteenth Amendment. Abroad, Taft sought to further the economic development of undeveloped nations in Latin America and Asia through the method he termed “Dollar Diplomacy”. However, Taft often alienated his own key constituencies, and was overwhelmingly defeated in his bid for a second term in the presidential election of 1912.”
Napoleon Hill mentions WM. Howard Taft in the list of the author’s preface of “Think and Grow Rich”
“Don’t write so that you can be understood, write so that you can’t be misunderstood.”
William Howard Taft
Portrait of Luther Burbank (1902)
LUTHER BURBANK (* March 7, 1849 in Lancaster, Massachusetts; † April 11, 1926 in Santa Rosa, California) was an American botanist, horticulturist and agricultural scientist. He was also known as the “Wizard of Horticulture” and “Plant Wizard of California”. Luther Burbank had only received an elementary formal education, but he revolutionized agriculture and food production. Charles Darwin’s book “The Variations of Animals and Plants under Domestication” was his inspirational guide to change agriculture and food production forever. His time was the late 19th and early 20th century, when he created hundreds of useful varieties of flowers, grains, fruits, grasses and vegetables. He is still known for his Russet Burbank Potato and his Burbank Cactus, which was spineless and useful for cattle feed.
Luther Burbank is being mentioned a couple of times by Napoleon Hill in “Think and Grow Rich”.
“Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.”
Luther Burbank
Edward William Bok
EDWARD WILLIAM BOK (* October 9, 1863 in Den Helder, The Netherlands; † January 9, 1930 in Lake Wales, Florida) was a Dutch-American editor and publisher. Edward W. Bok had immigrated to the United States at the age of six. He worked as an office boy and worked his way up to becoming an advertising manager and eventually editor of The Brooklyn Magazine. In 1886, he founded The Bok Syndicated Press. From 1889 until 1919, Edward W. Bok was the longtime editor of Cyrus Curtis’ influential magazine “The Ladies’ Home Journal”, which he built into one of the most successful publications of its era. Bok used his influence to initiate lively discussions and reforms concerning topics like civic beautification, sex education, Americanization programs for immigrants, a limited role for women in the nation’s political life, free enterprise and the problems of poverty. In 1921, Edward William Bok won the Pulitzer Prize for his autobiography “The Americanization of Edward Bok”. The term “living room” instead of “parlor” or “drawing room” can be traced back to him.
Napoleon Hill mentions Edward W. Bok in “Think and Grow Rich” on the list of rich men.
“A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.”
Edward William Bok
Frank A. Munsey
FRANK ANDREW MUNSEY (* August 21, 1854 in Mercer, Maine; † December 22, 1925 in New York City) was an American newspaper / magazine publisher and author. He built a newspaper empire in the early 20th century and owned up to 17 newspapers at the same time. Among them were the Washington Times, the New York Daily News, The Boston Journal, Baltimore News-American, the Philadelphia Evening Times, the New York Herald, The Sun, the New York Press, The Mail and The Globe. Frank A. Munsey became known for bringing financial rigor the business and for merging several of his newspapers, e.g. New York Press merged with the New York Herald in 1916, the Evening Sun with the New York Press. Frank A. Munsey was criticized for the extinction of many newspapers, since he shut down unprofitable papers, even though he often started new ones in their place. Economical thinking Frank A. Munsey introduced high-speed rotary printing presses into the newspaper industry. This allowed him to dramatically increase the number of printed copies and to print on inexpensive pulp paper, which made magazines and newspapers cheaper and affordable even for the working class. “Munsey’s Magazine” (formerly “Munsey’s Weekly”, founded in 1889) had the largest circulation of any magazine in the world: 700,000 copies per month at its peak in 1897.
Frank A. Munsey is being mentioned by Napoleon Hill in “Think ad Grow Rich” in the author’s preface on the list of those who understand and use the Carnegie secret.
Who’s Who in “Think and Grow Rich” Part 1
Who’s Who in “Think and Grow Rich” Part 2
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Who’s Who in “Think and Grow Rich” Part 4
Who’s Who in “Think and Grow Rich” Part 5
Who’s Who in “Think and Grow Rich” Part 6
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