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 starting point of all achievement is desire. Weak desire brings weak results.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.
Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat.
No matter where you are now, whatever you can conceive and believe, you can achieve.
Whatever your mind can conceive, you can achieve.
The imagination is the workshop of the soul, where all the plans for individual achievement are shaped.
What the mind can conceive, the mind can achieve
Believe it and achieve it.
All achievement, no matter what may be its nature, or its purpose, must begin with an intense, burning desire for something definite.
All personal achievement starts within the mind of the individual-knowing your problem is the first step in finding the solution.
Definiteness of purpose with positive mental attitude is the starting point of all worthwhile achievement.
Who told you it couldn't be done? And what great achievement has he to his credit that entitles him to use the word 'impossible' so freely?
Taking possession of your positive self will put you on the success beam that you may ride triumphantly to whatever heights of achievement you desire.