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
Change your mental attitude, & the World around you will change accordingly
The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on DESPITE all opposition, until they attain their goal. These few are the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Edisons. There may be no heroic connotation to the word persistence, but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel.
Until a man selects a DEFINITE PURPOSE IN LIFE, he dissipates his energies & spreads his thoughts over so many subjects & in so many different directions that they lead not to power, but to indecision & weakness.
The mind attracts the thing it dwells upon.
You will resemble, tomorrow, the DOMINATING THOUGHTS that you keep alive in your mind today!
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis.
It is one thing to want money-everyone wants more-but it is something entirely different to be worth more!
Neglecting to broaden their view has kept some people doing one thing all their lives.
Success in life depends upon happiness, and happiness is found in no other way than through SERVICE that is rendered in a spirit of love.
If the winds of fortune are temporarily blowing against you, remember that you can harness them and make them carry you toward your definite purpose, through the use of your imagination.
Most so called FAILURES are only temporary defeats
The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planning and action stage.
You can do it if you believe you can.