Quotes from Napoleon Hill

Your subconscious has access to all the same information your conscious mind receives, but it doesn't reason the way your conscious mind does. It takes everything literally. It doesn't make value judgments. It does not filter or interpret, it simply processes information literally and stores it.

The emotion of sex is an "irresistible force," against which there can be no such opposition as an "immovable body." When driven by this emotion, men become gifted with a super power for action.

how to motivate others by giving them confidence in themselves.

Life, itself, is a great chariot race, and the victory goes only to those who have developed the strength of character and determination and willpower to win.

CAPITAL consists not alone of money, but more particularly of highly organized, intelligent groups of men who plan ways and means of using money efficiently for the good of the public, and profitably to themselves.

Um desejo ardente de ser e fazer é o ponto de partida de onde o sonhador deve começar. Sonhos não nascem da indiferença, da preguiça ou da falta de ambição.

Habits and Beliefs: Because the subconscious mind does not distinguish between what is real and what is vividly imagined, if you convincingly plant an idea in your subconscious, it will accept the idea as though it were a fact. If you have planted the new idea strongly enough, when your thoughts run in that direction your new idea will be the first thought that comes to mind. It will have become your new belief, and eventually it will be your habit.

The emotion of sex is an "irresistible force," against which there can be no such opposition as an "immovable body." When driven by this emotion, men become gifted with a super power for action. Understand

The greatest achievement was, at first, and for a time, but a dream." "The oak sleeps in the acorn. The bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul, a waking angel stirs. DREAMS ARE THE SEEDLINGS OF REALITY.

all men have become what they are, because of their DOMINATING THOUGHTS AND DESIRES.

Your subconscious mind recognizes and acts upon ONLY thoughts which have been well-mixed with emotion or feeling

Emphasis of title. The competent leader requires no "title" to give him the respect of his followers. The man who makes too much over his title generally has little else to emphasize. The doors to the office of the real leader are open to all who wish to enter, and his working quarters are free from formality or ostentation.

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform!

The relationship of employer and employee, or of leader and follower, in the future, will be one of mutual cooperation, based upon an equitable division of the profits of business. In the future, the relationship of employer and employee will be more like a partnership than it has been in the past.

keep on keeping on, no matter how hard the going may be, a lesson I needed to learn before I could succeed in anything.

The desire must be placed in the mind and held there, with PERSISTENCE THAT KNOWS NO DEFEAT, until the automatic or subconscious mind takes it over. Up to this point you must stand back of the desire and push it; beyond this point the desire will stand back of you and push you on to achievement.

If a leader is a real leader, he will have no need to advertise that fact except by his conduct-his sympathy, understanding, fairness, and a demonstration that he knows his job.

Maintain a spirit of open-mindedness.

the man who cannot follow a leader intelligently, cannot become an efficient leader.

Fears are nothing more than states of mind. One's state of mind is subject to control and direction.

self-suggestion is a powerful factor in building character, that it is, in fact, the sole principle through which character is builded.

what of the man who has neither the time, nor the inclination to study failure in search of knowledge that may lead to success? Where, and how is he to learn the art of converting defeat into stepping stones to opportunity?

The object is to want money, and to become so determined to have it that you convince yourself you will have it.

The break consisted of my good fortune in meeting and gaining the cooperation of Andrew Carnegie. On that occasion Carnegie planted in my mind the idea of organizing the principles of achievement into a philosophy of success. Thousands of people have profited by the discoveries made in the twenty-five years of research, and several fortunes have been accumulated through the application of the philosophy. The beginning was simple. It was an IDEA which anyone might have developed.