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.
Our success depends very largely upon how well we negotiate our way through our daily contacts with other people without friction or opposition.
One way to avoid criticism is to do nothing and to be a nobody. The world will then not bother you.
The void holds a form of energy moving at an inconceivably high rate of vibration, and that void is filled with a form of power/energy which adapts itself to the nature of the thoughts we hold in our minds; and influences us, in natural ways, to transmute our thoughts into their physical equivalent.
The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.
The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.
Take inventory of yourself, see if any remnants of fear are standing in your way. Then you may grow... because nothing, absolutely nothing, can stand in your way.
Success in life depends upon happiness, and happiness is found in no other way than through SERVICE that is rendered in a spirit of love.
Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it.
The surest way of finding peace of mind is that which helps the greatest number of others to find it
Fortunate is the person who has learned that the most certain way to 'get' is to first 'give' through some sort of useful service.
It is strange, but true, that the most important turning-points of life often come at the most unexpected times and in the most unexpected ways.
The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.
Understand that the only way to get happiness is by giving it away to others.