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.
A wise man watches his faults more closely than his virtues; fools reverse the order.
Here is a most significant fact-the subconscious mind takes any orders given it in a spirit of absolute FAITH, and acts upon those orders, although the orders often have to be presented over and over again, through repetition, before they are interpreted by the subconscious mind.
Every time you change your orders without obvious reason, you weaken your authority.
Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to order.
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.
One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.
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.
What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat.
A man is as big as the measure of his thinking.
The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked.
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.