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
Our success depends very largely upon how well we negotiate our way through our daily contacts with other people without friction or opposition.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
Success in highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which comes only to the man who has found the work he likes best.
Most misfortunes are the result of misused time.
Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked.
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.
Do not wait; the time will never be ''just right.'' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
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.
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.