| Author Info | Born on May 20, 1898, Joseph Murphy was an Irish born, American author and New Thought minister. Inhis twenties, before being ordained a priest, an experience with healing prayer led himto leave the Jesuits and move to the United States, where he became a pharmacist in New York City. Here, he attended the Church of the Healing Christ. He also taught at the Institute of Religious Science in Los Angeles. He became the minister of the Los Angeles Divine Science Church in 1949, which he built into one of the largest New Thought congregations in the country.
Dale Carnegie was the author of 'How to Win Friends and Influence People,' one of the best-selling self-help books of all time. Born into poverty on November 24, 1888, in Maryville, Missouri, Dale Carnegie worked as a traveling salesman before teaching public speaking at a YMCA. His seminal self-help book, How to Win Friends and Influence People, won him a national following and enabled him to expand the Dale Carnegie Institute into countries around the world. He died in 1955 in Queens, New York.
Napoleon Hill was born in Wise County, Virginia. He began his writing career at age 13 as a "mountain reporter" for small town newspapers and went on to become America's most beloved motivational author. His work stands as a monument to individual achievement and is the cornerstone of modern motivation. His most famous work, Think and Grow Rich, is one of the best-selling books of all time.
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