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
The moment you commit and quit holding back, all sorts of unforeseen incidents, meetings, and material assistance will rise up to help you. The simple act of commitment is a powerful magnet for help.
You can be anything you want to be, if only you believe with sufficient conviction and act in accordance with your faith; for whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
Those who reach decisions promptly and definitely, know what they want, and generally get it.
If the thing you wish to do is right, and YOU BELIEVE IN IT, go ahead and do it! Put your dreams across, and never mind what 'they' say if you meet with temporary defeat, for 'they' perhaps, do not know that every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
Nobody rises above mediocrity unless they use the brains of other people.
Life reflects your own thoughts back to you.
You will attract to yourself people who harmonize with your own philosophy of life, whether you wish it or not.
Riches, when they come in huge quantities, are never the result of HARD work!
Life is a mirror of your consistent thoughts.
A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own choosing, without permitting outside influences to discourage or mislead him.