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
Concentration, itself, is nothing but a matter of control of the attention! Learn to fix your attention on a given subject, at will, for whatever length of time you choose, and you will have learned the secret passage-way to power and plenty! This is concentration!
Fortunes gravitate to men whose minds have been prepared to attract them just as surely as water gravitates to the ocean.
Those who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of 40. More often, they do not strike their real pace until they are well beyond the age of 50.
Those who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of 40. More often, they do not strike their real pace until they are well beyond the age of 50.
You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.
The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man.
If you were your own employer, would you be entirely satisfied with the day’s work you have done today?
A man who can speak two languages is worth two men.
Men are paid, not merely for what they know, but more particularly for WHAT THEY DO WITH THAT WHICH THEY KNOW.
If you have no major purpose, you are drifting toward certain failure.
One thing we all know, if one does not possess PERSISTENCE, one does not achieve noteworthy success in any calling.
Every time you change your orders without obvious reason, you weaken your authority.
The habit of taking the line of least resistance makes all rivers and some men crooked.
The mind requires regular use to remain strong.