Quotes from Napoleon Hill

Halpin deserves credit for REFUSING TO COMPROMISE WITH LIFE BY ACCEPTING AND KEEPING A JOB HE DID NOT WANT, and that is one of the major points I am trying to emphasize through this entire philosophy-that we rise to high positions or remain at the bottom BECAUSE OF CONDITIONS WE CAN CONTROL IF WE DESIRE TO CONTROL THEM.

Grove encourages his people to work in small, autonomous work units in which everyone understands the system and their role in it. Each person contributes their knowledge, expertise and creativity. Team members are trained and motivated to produce to the best of their capacity. When crises arise, the team willingly puts in the extra time, energy and brain power to meet and beat the problems faced.

This POWER is made up of the principles described in this book. It will not be difficult to detect, in the story of the Declaration of Independence, at least six of these principles; DESIRE, DECISION, FAITH, PERSISTENCE, THE MASTER MIND, and ORGANIZED PLANNING.

We do not worry over conditions, once we have reached a decision to follow a definite line of action.

Habits are formed step-by-step through our every thought and deed. Either you control your habits or your habits will control you. If you are going to be successful, you will force yourself to build only the kind of habits that you are willing to let control you. "We first make our habits, and our habits then make us.

All disease, all unhappiness, come from the violation of the law of love. Man's boomerangs of hate, resentment and criticism, come back laden with sickness and sorrow.

Then a genius has been born!

Suggestion comes from the outside.

giving orders to your subconscious mind, mixing your thoughts with one or more of the positive emotions and repeating your orders over and over.

there is nothing, right or wrong, which belief, plus burning desire, cannot make real. These qualities are free to everyone. In

MOST IDEAS ARE STILL-BORN, AND NEED THE BREATH OF LIFE INJECTED INTO THEM THROUGH DEFINITE PLANS OF IMMEDIATE ACTION.

Train yourself to listen attentively when other people are speaking.

Self-suggestion is purposefully controlled from within. It is a suggestion you give to yourself.

The thrifty and prudent are on the way to riches, for while they spend wisely they save carefully, and gradually enlarge their spheres as their growing means allow.

The FEAR OF CRITICISM is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the PLANNING and ACTION stage.

You will become what you want to be because of the dominating thoughts that you permit to occupy your mind.

The art of forceful speech.

Autosuggestion acts by itself, unconsciously, like a machine that reacts in the same way from the same stimulus

Through the aid of the sixth sense, you will be warned of impending dangers in time to avoid them, and notified of opportunities in time to embrace them. There comes to your aid, and to do your bidding, with the development of the sixth sense, a "guardian angel" who will open to you at all times the door to the temple of wisdom.

The most intelligent man living cannot succeed in accumulating money-nor in any other undertaking-without plans which are practical and workable.

In fact, there is much evidence to support the theory, that only emotionalized thoughts have any action influence upon the subconscious mind.

Indecision crystallizes into DOUBT, the two blend and become FEAR!

Personal magnetism. This is also called charisma

I recognize the power of Thought as being an inlet leading into my brain from the universal ocean of life; therefore, I will set no destructive thoughts afloat upon that ocean lest they pollute the minds of others.