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 have talked yourself into what you want, right there is the place to stop talking and begin saying it with deeds.
There is always plenty of capital for those who can create practical plans for using it
Anything you do to and for another person, you do it to and for yourself
To succeed in life, succeed at being yourself.
Watch the one ahead of you, and you'll learn why he is ahead. Then emulate him.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
The happiest people are those who have learned to mix play with their work and to bind the two together with enthusiasm.
Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time. One or the other must dominate. It is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating influence of your mind. Here the law of HABIT will come to your aid. Form the habit of applying and using the positive emotions! Eventually, they will dominate your mind so completely, that the negatives cannot enter it.
Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement. Just as the electron is the last unit of matter discernible to the scientist. DESIRE is the seed of all achievement; the starting place, back of which there is nothing, or at least there is nothing of which we have any knowledge.
Trying to get without first giving is as fruitless as trying to reap without having sown.
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
It is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating influence of your mind.
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance.