Quotes from Napoleon Hill

Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them. If you are influenced by "opinions" when you reach DECISIONS, you will not succeed in any undertaking

The five fundamental steps that must be taken by all who succeed are: Choice of a definite goal to be attained Development of sufficient power to attain your goal Perfection of a practical plan for attaining your goal Accumulation of specialized knowledge necessary for the attainment of your goal Persistence in carrying out the plan

As an accurate thinker, it is both your privilege and your duty to avail yourself of facts, even though you must go out of your way to get them. If you permit yourself to be swayed to and fro by all manner of information that comes to your attention, you will never become an accurate thinker; and if you do not think accurately, you cannot be sure of attaining the object of your definite chief aim in life.

the crucial role the mind plays in personal growth and achievement

general or specialized knowledge. An educated man

Henry Ford accumulated a fortune, not because of his superior mind, but because he adopted and followed a PLAN which proved to be sound. A thousand men could be pointed out, each with a better education than Ford's, yet each of whom lives in poverty

The Ten Major Causes of Failure in Leadership.

Every human being who reaches the age of understanding of the purpose of money, wishes for it. Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.

If you were in a building that was on fire, and all the doors and windows were locked, chances are that you would develop sufficient strength with which to break down the average door, because of your intense desire to free yourself. If you desire to acquire the art of successful negotiation, as you undoubtedly will when you understand its significance in relation to your achievement of your definite chief aim, you will do so, providing your desire is intense enough.

When people first come into contact with crime, they abhor it. If they remain in contact with crime for a time, they become accustomed to it, and endure it. If they remain in contact with it long enough, they finally embrace it, and become influenced by it.

It may interest you to know that Marconi's "friends" had him taken into custody, and examined in a psychopathic hospital, when he announced he had discovered a principle through which he could send messages through the air, without the aid of wires, or other direct physical means of communication. The dreamers of today fare better.

Whatever we want in our outward life in material expression, we must first build into our mental life, into our Ideals, Purposes and Will.

Let one of your first decisions be to keep a closed mouth and open ears and eyes

For you to have success, you – the person that's reading this right now – for you to have success, you have to be insane.

Definiteness of purpose.

Tell the world what you intend to do, but first show it." This is the equivalent of saying that "deeds, and not words, are what count most.

Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man, But soon or late the man who wins Is the man who thinks he can!" Observe

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. If you give up before your goal has been reached, you are a quitter.

When the armies of the prophet entered Jerusalem not a single person was killed because of his faith. When the crusaders entered the city, centuries later, not a Moslem man, woman, or child was spared.

still small voice

Nothing, however, can be SUCCESSFULLY SUBSTITUTED FOR PLEASING CONDUCT.

Le discutí un penique a la Vida, y la Vida no me dio más, por mucho que le imploré durante noche cuando contaba mis escasos bienes. Porque la Vida es un amo justo que te da lo que le pides, pero cuando has fijado el precio debes aguantar la tarea. Trabajé por un salario de jornalero sólo para descubrir, perplejo, que cualquier paga que hubiera pedido a la Vida ésta me la hubiese concedido de buen grado.

Appropriateness of style and clothing.

The capitalists are the brains of civilization, because they supply the entire fabric of which all education, enlightenment and human progress consists.