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
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.
Man can create nothing which he does not first conceive in THOUGHT.
I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice, therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.
The imagination is too often regarded merely as an indefinite, untraceable, indescribable something that does nothing but create fiction.
Maintain perfect harmony between yourself and every member of your mastermind group. If you fail to carry out this instruction to the letter, you may expect to meet with failure. The master mind principle cannot obtain where perfect harmony does not prevail.
One thing we all know, if one does not possess PERSISTENCE, one does not achieve noteworthy success in any calling.
Charles Chaplin makes a million dollars a year out of a funny, shuffling walk and a pair of baggy trousers, because he does "something different." Take the hint and "individualize" yourself with some distinctive idea.
I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects
I believe that close association with one who refuses to compromise with circumstances he does not like, is an asset that can never be measured in terms of money.
The battle is all over except the ''shouting'' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.
Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
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.