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.
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.
If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.
Work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.
Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.
If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance.
The development of self-confidence starts with the elimination of this demon called fear.
There is always plenty of capital for those who can create practical plans for using it
Anything you do to and for another person, you do it to and for yourself
Decide where you are going and how you are to get there. Then make a start from where you now stand.
Self-confidence results, first, from exact knowledge; second, the ability to impart that knowledge.
There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.
The one and only thing over which you have complete and total control is how you focus your own mind. Luckily, this determines everything else.