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
We do not have to wait for future discoveries in connection with the powers of the human mind for evidence that the mind is the greatest force known to mankind. We know, now, that any idea, aim or purpose that is fixed in the mind and held there with a will to achieve or attain its physical or material equivalent, puts into motion powers that cannot be conquered.
Failure is not a disgrace if you have sincerely done your best.
When enthusiasm runs in the front door, worry runs out the back door.
Out of resistance comes strength.
The ability to negotiate with other people without friction and argument is the outstanding quality of all successful people.
The testing process usually happens when we least expect it, thereby catching you off guard and giving you no chance to display anything by your real personality.
Imagination judges the future by the past, but concerns itself with the future more than with the past.
Experience is a teacher that knows no favorites.
Every time a man rises from defeat, he becomes mentally and emotionally stronger. Thus, in time, one may actually find his self - his true, inner self - through temporary defeat.
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement.
One of the most essential yet the hardest truths that I have had to learn is that every person should be his own hardest task-master.
Your associates can be priceless.
Napoleon Hill saw this law of transmutation as the seed of equivalent benefit: With every disappointment, heartbreak, or failure, there exists an equal (usually greater) positive benefit.
Nothing was ever created by a human being that was not first created in the imagination through desire and then transformed into reality through concentration.