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
Napoleon Hill quotes about
Faith and Fear make poor bedfellows. Where one is found, the other cannot exist.
The imagination is both interpretative and creative in nature.
The imagination is too often regarded merely as an indefinite, untraceable, indescribable something that does nothing but create fiction.
One of the most essential yet the hardest truths that I have had to learn is that every person should be his own hardest task-master.
Plan you work and work your plan.
Out of resistance comes strength.
Riches begin in the form of thought.
The only person to get even with are those who have helped you.
Anything in life worth working for, is worth praying for.
Initiative is as essential to success as a hub is essential to a wagon wheel.
Faith is the head chemist of the mind.
An educated person is not necessarily the one who has the knowledge, but the one who knows where to get it when needed.
You are engaged in an undertaking of major importance to you. To be sure of success, you must have plans which are faultless.
Lack of persistence is one of the major causes of failure. Moreover, experience with thousands of people has proved that lack of persistence is a weakness common to the majority of men. It is a weakness which may be overcome with effort.