Napoleon Hill
Napoleon Hill
Napoleon Hillwas an American author and impresario who cribbed freely from the new thought tradition of the previous century to become an early producer of personal-success literature. At the time of Hill's death in 1970, his best-known work, Think and Grow Richhad sold 20 million copies. Hill's works insisted that fervid expectations are essential to increasing one's income. Most of his books were promoted as expositing principles to achieve "success". Hill was an advisor to two presidents of the United...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSelf-Help Author
Date of Birth26 October 1883
CityPound, VA
CountryUnited States of America
It is well worth remembering that the customer is the most important factor in any business. If you don't think so, try getting along without him for a while.
If you pray for a thing, but have fear as you pray, that you may not receive it, or that your prayer will not be acted upon by Infinite Intelligence, your prayer will have been in vain.
The only thing over which you have complete right of control at all times is your mental attitude.
Quick riches are more dangerous than poverty.
The individual with a negative mental attitude attracts troubles as a magnet attracts steel fittings.
If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way. Don't wait for great opportunities. Seize common, everyday ones and make them great.
Man's brain may be compared to an electric battery...a group of electric batteries will provide more energy than a single battery.
Life, on this Earth may be likened to a great Kaleidoscope before which the scenes and facts and material substances are ever shifting and changing and all any man can do is to take these facts and substances and re-arrange them in new combinations.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.
Behind every adversity - is an opportunity!
The possibilities of creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are stupendous and imponderable. They inspire one with awe.
Every failure, every adversity, every heartache may be a blessing in disguise providing it softens the animal portion of our nature.
I am thankful for the adversities, which have crossed my pathway, for they taught me tolerance, sympathy, self-control, perseverance and some other virtues I might never have known.
If you think your lot has been hard, read 'Up From Slavery' by Booker T. Washington, and you may see how fortunate you have been.