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
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.
Those who can't take directions graciously have no business giving them
Enthusiasm, if fueled by inspiration and perseverance, travels with passion and its destination is excellence.
What is initiative? I'll tell you: It is doing the right thing without being told.
You are fortunate if you have learned the difference between temporary defeat and failure, more fortunate still if you have learned the truth that the very seed of success is dormant in every defeat that you experience.
Any habit may be discontinued by building in its place some other and more desirable habit.
The two roads that lead to poverty and riches travel in opposite directions. If you want riches, you must refuse to accept any circumstance that leads to poverty. (The word riches is here used in its broadest sense, meaning financial, spiritual, mental, and material estates).
It takes more than a college degree to make one a person of education. Any person who is educated is one who has learned to get whatever he wants in life without violating the rights of others.
No man can become a permanent success without taking others along with him.
If you have been wise and successful I congratulate you. Unless you are unable to forget how successful you have been, then I pity you.