W. Clement Stone
W. Clement Stone was a businessman, philanthropist, and positive mental attitude teacher. He coauthored Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude with Napoleon Hill and helped carry the classic prosperity tradition into sales, business, and public life.
W. Clement Stone videos on positive mental attitude and success
Stone has less surviving video than the modern speakers, but he is important to the foundation layer because he connects Napoleon Hill, optimism, sales discipline, and the practical American success tradition.
Positive mental attitude
Start here for Stone's signature frame: PMA as a disciplined way to interpret problems and keep taking action.
Success lineage and Napoleon Hill
These videos place Stone inside the same thought-and-action lineage as Napoleon Hill, Earl Nightingale, and Norman Vincent Peale.
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve with positive mental attitude.
Where to Go From Here
W. Clement Stone belongs beside Napoleon Hill, Earl Nightingale, and Norman Vincent Peale. For a later prosperity teacher who carried similar ideas into the video era, go next to Bob Proctor.
Key Ideas from W. Clement Stone
PMA is a discipline
Positive mental attitude is not denial. In Stone's tradition, it is a way to stay resourceful when problems appear.
Act on belief
Stone's success teaching ties belief to activity. Optimism matters because it keeps a person moving.
Use wealth as stewardship
Stone's reputation also includes philanthropy, showing the prosperity tradition at its best when success turns outward.
Books by W. Clement Stone
Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude
With Napoleon Hill
The core W. Clement Stone and Napoleon Hill book on optimism, belief, action, and success principles.
The Success System That Never Fails
Stone's practical success system
Stone's classic book on attitude, selling, persistence, and using practical rules to build success.
W. Clement Stone resources
Stone is best studied as part of the classic prosperity shelf: Napoleon Hill, positive mental attitude, sales, optimism, and service.
W. Clement Stone FAQ
Quick context for readers discovering W. Clement Stone through the classic personal-development lineage.
What is W. Clement Stone best known for?
W. Clement Stone is best known for positive mental attitude teaching, his business career, and his collaboration with Napoleon Hill on Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude.
What does PMA mean?
PMA means positive mental attitude. In Stone's work, it means training the mind to look for useful action, possibility, and persistence instead of surrendering to discouragement.
Where should I go after W. Clement Stone?
Read Napoleon Hill for the upstream success principles, Earl Nightingale for audio-era mindset teaching, and Norman Vincent Peale for the faith-and-optimism branch of the same tradition.
