Quotes from Napoleon Hill

The man who keeps calm when the other fellow gets angry has infinitely the best of the matter.

Intolerance is a form of ignorance which must be mastered before any form of enduring success may be attained.

You seem like emotional twins. Pacing works, because like attracts like.

He has discovered that his own brain is both a broadcasting, and a receiving station for the vibration of thought, and he is beginning now to learn how to make practical use of this discovery.

The person who stops studying merely because he has finished school is forever hopelessly doomed to mediocrity, no matter what may be his calling. The way  of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.

Las batallas de la vida no siempre favorecen al hombre más fuerte o más rápido, Pero tarde o temprano, el hombre que gana ¡Es el hombre que piensa que puede hacerlo!

One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average person's familiarity with the word 'impossible'. He knows all the rules that will not work. He knows all the things that cannot be done. This book was written for those who seek the rules that have made others successful, and are willing to stake everything on those rules.

Man may become the master of himself, and of his environment, because he has the POWER TO INFLUENCE HIS OWN SUBCONSCIOUS MIND, and through it, gain the cooperation of Infinite Intelligence.

a positive thinker becomes a positive person, someone others like to be around.

But every time you yield to the temptation, the easier it becomes to yield again and the more difficult it becomes to resist the next time.

I stopped three feet from gold, but I will never stop because men say 'no' when I ask them to buy insurance." Darby

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

Select your goal and make good, deep, wide mental paths leading straight to it.

When he went to Orange, he did not say to himself, "I will try to induce Edison to give me a job of some sort." He said, "I will see Edison, and put him on notice that I have come to go into business with him.

Just saying the words will have little effect. When you affirm your desire you must do it with such faith and conviction that your subconscious becomes convinced of how important it is to you.

of the time and listen eighty percent of the time, and that twenty percent ought to be questions to get the customer talking more.

time to nurse an idea is at the time of its birth. Every

Napoleon Hill refers to this method as concentration, but today it is most often called creative visualization, and it is the autosuggestion technique widely taught by contemporary motivational experts.

He did not say, "I will keep my eyes open for another opportunity, in case I fail to get what I want in the Edison organization." He said, "There is but one thing in this world that I am determined to have, and that is a business association with Thomas A. Edison.

Know your own mind and you will be as wise as the sages.

The men of greatest achievement are men with highly developed sex natures; men who have learned the art of sex transmutation.

It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity.

I will burn all bridges behind me, and stake my entire future on my ability to get what I want.

No one could ride a horse if the horse discovered its real strength. The same thing is true for people.