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
Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Weak desire brings weak results.
If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.
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.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
Most misfortunes are the result of misused time.
Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
Character is to man what carbon is to steel.
You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.
Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when, and if, it is organized into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite end.
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.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
Understand that the only way to get happiness is by giving it away to others.