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
Remember, the thoughts that you think and the statements you make regarding yourself determine your mental attitude. If you have a worthwhile objective, find the one reason why you can achieve it rather than hundreds of reasons why you can't.
Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it.
Capability means imagination...
When you are able to maintain your own highest standards of integrity - regardless of what others may do - you are destined for greatness.
There is a difference between wishing for a thing and being ready to receive it.
Keep on keeping on, no matter how hard the going may be.
If you are influenced by the opinions of others, you will have no DESIRE of your own.
You can be absolutely certain that when you feel you are being most unfairly tested, you are being prepared for great achievement.
Focus on the possibilities for success, not on the potential for failure
Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.
If the first plan which you adopt does not work successfully, replace it with a new plan; if this new plan fails to work, replace it in turn with still another, and so on, until you find a plan which does work. Right here is the point at which the majority of men meet with failure, because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
One of the most valuable things any person can learn is the art of using the knowledge and experience of others.
Remember that it is not the lawyer who knows the most law, but the one who best prepares his case, who wins.
Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them. If you are influenced by "opinions" when you reach DECISIONS, you will not succeed in any undertaking.