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
Man can create nothing which he does not first conceive in THOUGHT.
One must realize that all who have accumulated great fortunes first did a certain amount of dreaming, hoping, wishing, desiring, and planning before they acquired money.
The brain is the first broadcasting station ever invented.
The average person would have quit at the first failure. That’s why there have been many average men and only one Edison.
There are twelve good reasons for failure. The first one is the avowed intention of doing no more than one is paid to do, and the person who makes this avowal may see the other eleven by stepping before a looking glass.
The subconscious acts first on the dominating desires.
First you give life and action and guidance to ideas, then they take on power of their own and sweep aside all opposition.
Drifting, without aim or purpose, is the first cause of failure.
Every individual has the power to change his or her material or financial status by first changing the nature of his or her beliefs.
Habits are first cobwebs, then cables.
First you get a habit, then it gets you.
TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.This is the equivalent of saying "deeds, and not words, are what count most.
Constancy of purpose is the first principle of success.
Fortunate is the person who has learned that the most certain way to 'get' is to first 'give' through some sort of useful service.