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
Fear is the most costly of all the human emotions, even though most fears have no foundation in fact.
Scars are wisdom in disguise.
The subconscious mind will translate into its physical equivalent a thought impulse of a negative or destructive nature, just as readily as it will act upon thought impulses of a positive or constructive nature. This accounts for the strange phenomenon which so many millions of people experience, referred to as "misfortune" or "bad luck."
Our success depends very largely upon how well we negotiate our way through our daily contacts with other people without friction or opposition.
The bottom is a monotonous, dreary, unprofitable place for any person. That is why I have taken the time to describe how lowly beginnings may be circumvented by proper planning.
First you give life and action and guidance to ideas, then they take on power of their own and sweep aside all opposition.
You are the master of your own earthly destiny just as surely as you have the power to control your own thoughts
You owe it to yourself not to permit your emotions to place your happiness in the keeping of another person.
The most damaging forms of intolerance are connected with religious, racial and political differences of opinion.
If you truly desire money so keenly that your desire is an obsession, you will have no difficulty in convincing yourself that you will acquire it. The object is to want money, and to be so determined to have it that you convince yourself that you will have it.
There can never be success without happiness, and no man can be happy without dispensing happiness to others.
Render more service than you are paid for and eventually you will be paid more for less services rendered.
Self-approval is a dangerous state of mind.
Your world will change whether or not you choose to change, but you have the power to choose it's direction.