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
Achieve self-mastery over your thoughts, and constantly direct them toward your goals and objectives. Learn to focus your attention on the goals that you want to achieve and on finding ways to achieve those goals.
I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful or greedy. Unless you let him.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
If you can conceive something in your mind and believe it to be true, then you can achieve it.
The best way to succeed in this world is to act on the advice you give to others.
One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.
It is strange, but true, that the most important turning-points of life often come at the most unexpected times and in the most unexpected ways.
Start going the extra mile and opportunity will follow you.
Somewhere in your make-up there lies sleeping, the seed of achievement which, if aroused and put into action, would carry you to heights, such as you may never have hoped to attain.
If you don’t want your life to be 'messed up', don’t fool around with those who have messed up theirs.
The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.
Many successful people have found opportunities in failure and adversity that they could not recognize in more favorable circumstances.
A closed mind stumbles over the blessings of life without recognizing them.