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
Winners never quit, quitters never win.
Imagination is the most marvelous, miraculous, inconceivably powerful force the world has ever known.
Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.
Every person should make it his business to gather new ideas from sources other than the environment in which he daily lives and works. The mind becomes withered, stagnant, narrow and closed unless it searches for new ideas.
We are the masters of our fate, the captains of our souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts.
The road to success may be, and generally is, obstructed by many influences which must be removed before the goal can be reached.
The only 'break' anyone can afford to rely upon is a self-made 'break'.
An educated person is not necessarily the one who has the knowledge, but the one who knows where to get it when needed.
Opportunity never sneaks up on those who straddle the fence of indecision.
There is nothing that belief plus a burning desire cannot make real.
Whatever your mind can conceive, you can achieve.
If you can't forgive, don't ask to be forgiven.
Indecision, doubt and fear. The members of this unholy trio are closely related; where one is found, the other two are close at hand.
There is no such thing as Something for nothing.