Quotes from Napoleon Hill

Spending too much time and effort creating excuses. Explanations do not explain. Orders do.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Third: I know through the principle of autosuggestion, any desire that I persistently hold in my mind will eventually seek expression through some practical means of attaining the object back of it; therefore, I will devote ten minutes daily to demanding of myself the development of self-confidence.

Henry Ford foi um sucesso porque entendia e aplicava os princípios do sucesso. Um desses princípios é o desejo: saber claramente o que você quer. Lembre-se da história de Ford enquanto continua lendo este livro.

motivação é como um fogo: você deve continuar adicionando combustível, senão ele apaga".

Do not be in a hurry to get to the great things. Doing great things will not make you great, but becoming great will certainly lead you to the doing of great things.

Depending on your sales manager for prospects.

The cause may be found in the fact that all impulses of thought have a tendency to clothe themselves in their physical equivalent.

Fourth: I have clearly written down a description of my definite chief aim in life, and I will never stop trying, until I shall have developed sufficient self-confidence for its attainment.

Intemperance. The most damaging forms of intemperance are connected with eating, strong drink, and sexual activities. Overindulgence in any of these is fatal to success.

Una de las mayores debilidades de la humanidad es la familiaridad del hombre promedio con la palabra "imposible". É

Some who will read this, will believe that no one can think and grow rich. They cannot think in terms of riches, because their thought habits have been steeped in poverty, want, misery, failure, and defeat.

Si entiende esta verdad, sabrá por qué es esencial que fomente las emociones positivas como las fuerzas dominantes de su mente, y desaliente —y elimine— las emociones negativas.

La fe es el "elixir eterno" que le da vida, poder y acción al impulso del pensamiento!

When a man, whether he is a leader or follower, admits that he is "too busy" to change his plans, or to give attention to any emergency, he admits his inefficiency. The successful leader must be the master of all details connected with his position.

Master salespeople catch their own prospects.

One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word "impossible.

The subconscious mind will translate into reality a thought driven by fear just as readily as it will translate into reality a thought driven by courage, or faith.

Life is an everlasting question-mark! That which we want most is always in the embryonic distance of the future. Our power to acquire is always a decade or so behind our power to DESIRE! And, if we catch up with the thing we want we no longer want it!

Plain, unemotional words do not influence the subconscious mind. You will get no appreciable results until you learn to reach your subconscious mind with thoughts, or spoken words which have been well emotionalized with BELIEF.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat. Only by so doing can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win, essential to success.

Life is too short and there is too much constructive work to be done to justify us in "striking back" at everyone who says that which we do not wish to hear.

A maior parte dos fracassos reais se deve a limitações que os homens impõem a si mesmos em suas próprias mentes.

Waiting for business conditions to pick up. This is nothing but an excuse.