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
Ideas... they have the power
We are what we are, because of the vibrations of thought which we pick up and register, through the stimuli of our daily environment.
You have a brain and mind of your own. Use it, and reach your own decisions
You’ve got to be sure of yourself before You can ever win a prize.
We refuse to believe that which we don't understand.
If you believe yourself unfortunate because you have loved and lost, perish the thought. One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely.
Adversity will do something too you or for you.......
If you are not learning while you’re earning, you are cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.
Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.
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.
Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.
Put your foot upon the neck of the fear of criticism by reaching a decision not to worry about what other people think, do, or say.
IF - and this is the greatest of them all - I had the courage to see myself as I reallyam, I would find out what is wrong with me, and correct it, then I might have a chance to profit by my mistakes and learn something from the experience of others,for I know that there is something WRONG with me, or I would now be where I WOULD HAVE BEEN IF I had spent more time analyzing my weaknesses, and less time building alibis to cover them.
Perhaps we shall learn, as we pass through this age, that the 'other self" is more powerful than the physical self we see when we look into a mirror.