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.
Through some strange and powerful principle of ''mental chemistry'' which she has never divulged, nature wraps up in the impulse of strong desire, ''that something'' which recognizes no such word as ''impossible,'' and accepts no such reality as failure.
Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat.
Dreams come true when desire transforms into concrete actions.
There is nothing that belief plus a burning desire cannot make real.
People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail. The fear of criticism, in such cases is stronger than the DESIRE for success.
All achievement, no matter what may be its nature, or its purpose, must begin with an intense, burning desire for something definite.
Most people wish for riches, but few people provide the definite plan and burning desire which pave the road to wealth.
The subconscious acts first on the dominating desires.
Nothing was ever created by a human being that was not first created in the imagination through desire and then transformed into reality through concentration.
If you truly desire money so keenly that your desire is an obsession, you will have no difficulty in convincing yourself that you will acquire it. The object is to want money, and to be so determined to have it that you convince yourself that you will have it.
Desire is the factor that determines what your definite purpose in life shall be.
Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.