14 habits of exceptionally likable people

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Napoleon Hill is the grandfather of self-help authors, inspiring the likes of Oracle founder Larry Ellison, media mogul Oprah Winfrey, and performance coach Tony Robbins.

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His 1937 book "Think and Grow Rich" is one of the top-selling books of all time, with around 100 million copies sold worldwide. The simple reason it's sold so well is because his practical insights into how successful people carry themselves - primarily based on his many months spent interviewing the industrialist Andrew Carnegie - are timeless, straightforward, and useful

In one of his essays, "Develop a Pleasing Personality," as collected in "The Science of Success," he focuses in on how to have a "million-dollar personality."

Below, we've included Hill's 14 habits of people who are so likable that others go out of their way to help them.