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In 1908, he commissioned ( at no pay ) Napoleon Hill, then a journalist, to interview more than 500 wealthy achievers to find out the common threads of their success.

Hill eventually became a Carnegie collaborator.

Their work was published in 1928 after Carnegie's death in Hill's book The Law of Success ( ISBN 0-87980-447-5 ) and in 1937, Think and Grow Rich ( ISBN 1-59330-200-2 ).

The latter has not been out of print since it was first published and has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide.

In 1960, Hill published an abridged version of the book containing the Andrew Carnegie formula for wealth creation.

For years it was the only version generally available.

In 2004, Ross Cornwell published Think and Grow Rich!

: The Original Version, Restored and Revised ( Second Printing 2007 ), which restored the book to its original content, with slight revisions, and added comprehensive end notes, an index, and an appendix.