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
You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.
Waste no words on a man who dislikes you. Actions will impress him more.
Knowledge will not attract money, unless it is organized, and intelligently directed, through practical plans of action, to the definite end of accumulation of money.
Faith is the eternal elixir. It gives life, power, and action to the impulse of thought.
By all means tell the world how good you are - but do it with actions, not words.
Every company has room for the man who has a definite plan of action which is to the advantage of that company.
Good intentions are useless until they are expressed in appropriate action!
Any man is educated who knows where to get knowledge when he needs it, and how to organize that knowledge into definite plans of action.
Men of action usually win - that is one of their distinctive features.
Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when, and if, it is organized into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite end.
If you are really great, you will let others discover this fact from your actions.
To become successful you must be a person of action. Merely to "know" is not sufficient. It is necessary both to know and do.
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.