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
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
IDEAS CAN BE TRANSMUTED INTO CASH THROUGH THE POWER OF DEFINITE PURPOSE, PLUS DEFINITE PLANS.
Ideas are intangible forces, but they have more power than the physical brains that give birth to them. They have the power to live on, after the brain that creates them has returned to dust.
Ideas... they have the power
Most ideas are stillborn and need the breath of life injected into them through definite plans of immediate action. The time to nurse an idea is at the time of its birth. Every minute it lives gives it a better chance of surviving.
Every person should make it his business to gather new ideas from sources other than the environment in which he daily lives and works. The mind becomes withered, stagnant, narrow and closed unless it searches for new ideas.
Truly, there is something to the idea that hero-worship is helpful, provided one worships a winner.
The story of practically every great fortune starts with the day when a creator of ideas and a seller of ideas got together and worked in harmony.
We do not have to wait for future discoveries in connection with the powers of the human mind for evidence that the mind is the greatest force known to mankind. We know, now, that any idea, aim or purpose that is fixed in the mind and held there with a will to achieve or attain its physical or material equivalent, puts into motion powers that cannot be conquered.
First you give life and action and guidance to ideas, then they take on power of their own and sweep aside all opposition.
Every successful person finds that great success lies just beyond the point when they're convinced their idea is not going to work.
The mind becomes withered, stagnant, narrow and closed unless it searches for new ideas.
Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.
The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planning and action stage.