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
Success attracts success and failure attracts failure because of the law of harmonious attraction.
Believe it and achieve it.
The state of mind must be belief, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief. Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief.
All achievement, no matter what may be its nature, or its purpose, must begin with an intense, burning desire for something definite.
Control your own mind, and you may never be controlled by the mind of another.
The average person would have quit at the first failure. That’s why there have been many average men and only one Edison.
You may as well know, also, that every great leader, from the dawn of civilization down to the present, was a dreamer.
One who has loved truly can never lose entirely.
Here is a most significant fact-the subconscious mind takes any orders given it in a spirit of absolute FAITH, and acts upon those orders, although the orders often have to be presented over and over again, through repetition, before they are interpreted by the subconscious mind.
It's a sure thing that you'll not finish if you don't start.
Poverty is no disgrace. But it is certainly not a recommendation.
I pray daily, not for more riches, but for more wisdom with which to recognize, embrace and enjoy what I already possess.
The single most influential force that controls your attitudes, beliefs, capabilities and emotions is repetition - the words you silently use, over and over again, in your internal dialogue with yourself.
Let nobody bribe you away from being yourself.