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
Anything in life worth working for, is worth praying for.
Successful people are decisive people. When opportunities come their way, they evaluate them carefully, make a decision, and take appropriate action. They know that indecision wastes time that could be spent on more productive tasks.
By all means tell the world how good you are - but do it with actions, not words.
Moral courage further demands that you assume the responsibility for your own acts.
Positive mental attitude is the right mental attitude in all circumstances. Success attracts more success while failure attracts more failure.
The necessity for struggle is one of the clever devices through which nature forces individuals to expand, develop, progress, and become strong through resistance. . .We are forced to recognize that this great universal necessity for struggle must have a definite and useful purpose. That purpose is to force the individual to sharpen his wits, arouse his enthusiasm, build up his spirit of faith, gain definiteness of purpose, develop his power of will, and inspire his faculty of imagination to give him new uses for old ideas and concepts. . .
You need to recognize and sweep aside certain weaknesses which stand between you and your goals. Your persistence develops into a respected, proved, progressive power.
That man is rich indeed who has more friends than enemies, fears no one, and is so busy building that he has no time to devote to tearing down another's hopes and plans.
If the mind of man can believe, the mind of man can achieve.
The only person to get even with are those who have helped you.
The Creator gave us the complete, unchallengable right of prerogative over the one thing, and only thing we own, our mind.
It is a curious quirk of human nature that some people can see opportunities, while others only see problems.
[E]very job is composed of many small details, any one of which, if overlooked, can create big problems later.
The subconscious acts first on the dominating desires.