In this post you are going to meet four men that are mentioned in “Think and Grow Rich” by Napoleon Hill: A retail genius (Edward A. Filene), a man with definite desire (Edwin C. Barnes), an influential newspaper editor (Arthur Brisbane) and a Nobel Peace Price awarded U.S. President (Woodrow Wilson)
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Who’s Who in “Think and Grow Rich” Part 1
Who’s Who in “Think and Grow Rich” Part 2
Who’s Who in “Think and Grow Rich” Part 3
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
Who’s Who in “Think and Grow Rich” Part 7
Edward Albert Filene
EDWARD ALBERT FILENE (September 3, 1860 in Salem, Massachusetts; † September 26, 1937 in Paris, France) was an American businessman, author and philanthropist. Due to his father’s ill health he had to give up his Harvard ambitions (he had already passed the entrance exams) to take over his family’s clothing business at the age of 19. Even though Edward A. Filene had only little formal education, he became a retail genius and successfully developed the Filene’s department store chain. Filene also was a spiritual leader in the credit union movement, which he supported by public speeches and money. He planned and helped organize the Boston Chamber of Commerce and the Chamber of Commerce of the United States and served in World War I as chairman of the War Shipping Committee. Edward A. Filene corresponded with many leaders in economy, politics and culture. Among them were Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau, Mahatma Gandhi and Lenin.
Napoleon Hill mentions Edward A. Filene in the list of millionaires in “Think and Grow Rich”.
“What is needed is that the American masses shall learn the art of constructive self-government in this machine age (…)”
Edward A. Filene
Edwin C. Barnes
EDWIN C. BARNES (* 1878 in Wisonsin, † September 23, 1952 in Bradenton, Florida) was an American inventor and electronic engineering specialist. He was Thomas A. Edison’s business partner from 1905 to Edison’s death in 1931. Edwin C. Barnes is “The Man Who “Thought” His Way Into Partnership With Thomas A. Edison”. Napoleon Hill tells Barnes’ story in the first chapter of “Think and Grow Rich”. It is the story of a man with a big burning and definite desire to become a business associate of Thomas Alva Edison. He had travelled by “blind baggage” on a freight train, because he did not have enough money to pay the fare. Edison gave him a chance and let him work in the office at first. Barnes saw his opportunity when Edison’s salesmen disregarded the Edison Dictating Machine (later: Ediphone). Barnes knew he could sell the machine and he did it so successfully that eventually Edison made him his business partner.
In “Think and Grow Rich”, Napoleon Hill tells Edwin C. Barnes’ story in chapter 1 as “The man who “thought” his way into partnership with Thomas A. Edison”
“I came here to go into business with Edison, and I’ll accomplish this end if it takes the remainder of my life.”
Arthur Brisbane
ARTHUR BRISBANE (* December 12, 1864 in Buffalo, New York; † December 25, 1936 in New York City) was an American newspaper editor, writer and real estate investor. Arthur Brisbane started his career as a newspaper reporter in and editor in New York. He worked at The New York Sun and The New York World before he became editor of the New York Journal and the Evening Journal, owned by William Randolph Hearst. Arthur Brisbane was one of the most influential newspaper editors ever, since his syndicated editorial column reached a daily readership of over 20 million.
Arthur Brisbane is being mentioned by Napoleon Hill in “Think and Grow Rich” in the list of the author’s preface.
“If you don’t hit the reader between the eyes in your first sentence of your news column, there’s no need to write any more.”
Arthur Brisbane
Woodrow Wilson
THOMAS WOODROW WILSON (* December 28, 1856 in Staunton, Virginia; † February 3, 1924 in Washington D.C.) was the 28th President of the United States of America from 1913 to 1921. President Wilson was the second democratic president since 1861. In the spirit of the progressive era, he established several social and economic reforms, e. g. the Federal Reserve Act, the Federal Trade Commission Act, the Clayton Antitrust Act, the Federal Farm Loan Act and America’s first-ever federal progressive income tax in the Revenue Act of 1913. Woodrow Wilson tried to keep the United States out of WW I, but had to declare war to Germany due to a threatening military alliance of Germany and Mexico and due to Germany’s unrestricted submarine warfare. At the end of the war, President Wilson personally controlled negotiations with Germany and was mainly responsible for shaping the Treaty of Versailles. Based on this treaty, the League of Nations, predecessor of the United Nations, was created in 1919 and for this accomplishment, President Wilson was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1919. President Woodrow Wilson is considered as one of the greatest U.S. Presidents.
Woodrow Wilson is being mentioned by Napoleon Hill in “Think and Grow Rich” as part of the list of users of the Carnegie secret.
“America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.”
Woodrow Wilson
Who’s Who in “Think and Grow Rich” Part 1
Who’s Who in “Think and Grow Rich” Part 2
Who’s Who in “Think and Grow Rich” Part 3
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
Who’s Who in “Think and Grow Rich” Part 7
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