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
What a different story men would have to tell if only they would adopt a DEFINITE PURPOSE, and stand by that purpose until it had time to become an all-consuming obsession!
It has been said that man can create anything which he can imagine.
Man can create nothing which he does not first conceive in THOUGHT.
Life’s greatest tragedy consists of men and women who earnestly try, and fail!
MAN’S ONLY LIMITATION, within reason, LIES IN HIS DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF HIS IMAGINATION.
People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail. The fear of criticism, in such cases is stronger than the DESIRE for success.
Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application toward some worthy end.
I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice, therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.
The world does not pay men for that which they “know”. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.
Most real failures are due to limitations which men set up in their own minds.
Successful men and women become successful because they acquire the habit of thinking in terms of success. Get the success habit in the small circumstances you control, and soon you'll be controlling the bigger ones.
A wise man watches his faults more closely than his virtues; fools reverse the order.
The imagination is the workshop of the soul, where all the plans for individual achievement are shaped.
If you try and fail, make another effort, and still another...until you succeed.