Napoleon Hill Quotes

American author (1883-1970)

Napoleon Hill (26 October 1883 – 8 November 1970) was an American self-help author. He is best known for his book Think and Grow Rich (1937), which is among the 10 best-selling self-help books of all time. Hill's works insisted that fervid expectations are essential to improving one's life. Most of his books were promoted as expounding principles to achieve "success".

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Birth Name: Oliver Napoleon Hill

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Adversity will do something too you or for you.......

Failure is man-made circumstance. It is never real until accepted by man as permanent.

When you are able to maintain your own highest standards of integrity - regardless of what others may do - you are destined for greatness.

how to sell yourself by using the same strategies and psychology that master salespeople use in selling goods and services.

20. Lack of concentration of effort. The “jack-of-all-trades” seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.

If a man repeats a lie over and over, he will eventually accept the lie as truth. Moreover, he will believe it to be the truth.

Do not confuse the word “belief” with the word “wish.” The two are not the same. Everyone is capable of “wishing” for financial, material, or spiritual advantages, but the element of faith is the only sure power by which a wish may be translated into a belief, and a belief into reality.

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"The starting point of all achievement is desire. Weak desire brings weak results.

that when a man really desires a thing so deeply that he is willing to stake his entire future on a single turn of the wheel in order to get it, he is sure to win.

more gold has been mined from the brains of men than has ever been taken from the earth.

Every man is what he is, because of the DOMINATING THOUGHTS which he permits to occupy his mind.

I realise the dominating thoughts of my mind will eventually reproduce themselves in outward, physical action and gradually transform themselves into physical reality. Therefore I will concentrate my thoughts for 30 minutes daily upon the task of thinking of the person I intend to become, thereby creating in my mind a clear mental picture of that person.

There is something radically wrong with a civilization, and a system of education, which permit 98% of the people to go through life as failures. But I did not write this book for the purpose of moralizing on the rights and wrongs of the world; that would require a book a hundred times the size of this one. p. 85

Success begins with a fellow’s will — It’s all in the state of mind.

We are the masters of our fate, we are the captains of our soul, *because* we have the power to control our *thoughts*.