Quotes from Napoleon Hill

First of all, decide the sort of specialized knowledge you require, and the purpose for which it is needed. To a large extent your major purpose in life, the goal toward which you are working, will help determine what knowledge you need.

Antes de que el éxito llegue a la vida de cualquier hombre, éste debe sufrir varias derrotas temporales y, tal vez, algún fracaso. Cuando la derrota se apodera de un hombre, lo más fácil y más lógico de hacer es renunciar. Eso es exactamente lo que hacen la mayoría de los hombres.

A quitter never wins—and a winner never quits. Lift

two most common methods of using autosuggestion: positive affirmations and creative visualization.

The Successful are they that See and Do — the Unsuccessful are they that See — and do not Do.

Being a philosopher as well as a preacher, Dr. Gunsaulus recognized, as do all who succeed in life, that DEFINITENESS OF PURPOSE is the starting point from which one must begin. He recognized, too, that definiteness of purpose takes on animation, life, and power when backed by a BURNING DESIRE to translate that purpose into its material equivalent.

Every one of them was a failure, but none of them was defeated.

The word no, to the master salesperson, is nothing more than a signal to begin the sales presentation in earnest.

Through repetition of this procedure, you voluntarily create thought habits which are favorable to your efforts to transmute desire into its monetary equivalent.

SELLING YOURSELF ON YOURSELF

Victor Hugo says: "He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life. The orderly arrangement of his time is like a ray of light which darts itself through all his operations.

Many a man stops work with the clock. He leaves his day's work with Ragged Edges. He is the man who starts his days with Ragged Edges, and finally rounds out an incomplete life. Finish up as you Go.

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.

The most successful men and women on earth have had to correct certain weak spots in their personalities before they began to succeed.

The "capacity to surmount failure without being discouraged" is "the chief asset of every man who attains outstanding success in any calling.

NO HAY LIMITACIONES PARA LA MENTE EXCEPTO LAS QUE NOSOTROS MISMOS RECONOCEMOS. LA POBREZA Y LA RIQUEZA SON LAS HIJAS DEL PENSAMIENTO.    

The master salesperson has the capacity for superfaith in: The thing he or she is selling Himself or herself The prospective buyer Closing the sale

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

You have ABSOLUTE CONTROL over but one thing, and that is your thoughts. This is the most significant and inspiring of all facts known to man! It reflects man's Divine nature.

Men take on the nature and the habits and the POWER OF THOUGHT of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony.

In Search of Excellence, escolhido

All so-called revelations, referred to in the realm of religion, and all discoveries of basic or new principles in the field of invention, take place through the faculty of creative imagination.

SYMPTOMS OF THE FEAR OF POVERTY

Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.