Napoleon Hill Quotes

“The great master key to riches is nothing more or less than the self-discipline necessary to help you take full and complete possession of your own mind.”

“Focus on the possibilities for success, not on the potential for failure”

“If you try and fail, make another effort, andstill another...until you succeed.”

“Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.”

“Your deliberate Chief Aim in life should be selected with deliberate care”

“Knowledge will not attract money, unless it is organized, and intelligently directed, through practical plans of action, to the definite end of accumulation of money.”

“Enthusiasm is the steam that drives the engine.”

“Every company has room for the man who has a definite plan of action which is to the advantage of that company.”

“You owe it to yourself not to permit your emotions to place your happiness in the keeping of another person.”

“Thought is the most highly organized form of energy known to man.”

“Intelligent planning is essential for success in any undertaking designed to accumulate riches.”

“No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.”

“The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on DESPITE all opposition, until they attain their goal. These few are the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Edisons. There may be no heroic connotation to the word persistence, but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel.”

“Decide where you are going and how you are to get there. Then make a start from where you now stand.”

“Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.”

“Initiative is as essential to success as a hub is essential to a wagon wheel.”

“You are engaged in an undertaking of major importance to you. To be sure of success, you must have plans which are faultless.”

“First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.”

“The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man.”

“No man has a chance to enjoy permanent success until he begins to look in a mirror for the real cause of all his mistakes.”

“One thing we all know, if one does not possess PERSISTENCE, one does not achieve noteworthy success in any calling.”

“Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty.”

“Every mind needs friendly contact with other minds, for food of expansion and growth.”

“The only 'break' anyone can afford to rely upon is a self-made 'break'.”

“Close friends and relatives, while not meaning to do so, often handicap on through 'opinions' and sometimes though ridicule, which is meant to be humorous. Thousands of men and women carry inferiority complexes with them all through life, because some well-meaning, but ignorant person destroyed their confidence through opinions or ridicule”