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 you begin to think and grow rich, you will observe that riches begin with a state of mind, with definiteness of purpose, with little or no hard work.
Your real courage shows best in the hour of adversity.
The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.
If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Every failure is a blessing in disguise, providing it teaches some needed lesson one could not have learned without it. Most so-called Failures are only temporary defeats.
Nothing is impossible to the person who backs DESIRE with enduring FAITH.
You will never be greater than the thoughts that dominate your mind
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
The primary reason for failure is that people do not develop new plans to replace those plans that didn't work.
The power to think as you wish to think is the only power over which you have absolute control.
We are all salesman regardless of our calling. But not all of us are Master Salesmen.
Every great leader of the past, whose record I have examined, was beset by difficulties and met with temporary defeat before 'arriving