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
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
It is a well known fact that a man learns best that which he endeavors to teach others.
Failure cannot cope with persistence.
Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.
Constancy of purpose is the first principle of success.
One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.
Cherish the music that stirs in your heart.
The space you occupy and the authority you exercise may be measured with mathematical exactness by the service you render.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade and sell it to all of those who get thirsty from complaining.
There is some one thing that you can do better than anyone else in the world could do it. Search until you find out what this particular line of endeavor is, then organize all of your forces and attack it with the belief that you are going to win.
If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self- interest, you can have practically anything you go after.
A master salesman is one who takes the offensive and never the defensive sale of an argument, if argument arises.
No one is going to pay much attention to the person who has no confidence in himself.
The world is ruled, and the destiny of civilization is established, by the human emotions.