Quotes from Napoleon Hill

If you think you are beaten, you are, If you think you dare not, you don't If you like to win, but you think you can't, It is almost certain you won't.

The person who gives expression, by word of mouth, to negative or destructive thoughts is practically certain to experience the results of those words in the form of a destructive "kick-back." The release of destructive thought impulses, alone, without the aid of words, produces also a "kick-back" in more ways than one.

A salesperson who is an able showman can change the prospective buyer's mind from negative to positive.

THERE ARE NO LIMITATIONS TO THE MIND EXCEPT THOSE WE ACKNOWLEDGE BOTH POVERTY AND RICHES ARE THE OFFSPRING OF THOUGHT

The motive of desire for power and fame The motive of fear The motive of revenge The motive of freedom (of body and mind) The motive of desire to create or build in thought or in material

group of brains coordinated (or connected) in a spirit of harmony, will provide more thought-energy than a single brain

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Even the ordinary trader will find his business prosperity increase as he develops a greater self-control and equanimity, for people will always prefer to deal with a man whose demeanor is strongly equable.

Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life, not on what you don't want.

Sixth. Read your written statement aloud, twice daily, once just before retiring at night, and once after arising in the morning. AS YOU READ—SEE AND FEEL AND BELIEVE YOURSELF ALREADY IN POSSESSION OF THE MONEY.

There is but one dependable method of accumulating, and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.

Whatever your mind feeds upon your mind attracts to you.

nothing to start with, except the capacity to know what he wanted, and the determination to stand by that desire until he realized

The creative faculty becomes more alert, more receptive to vibrations from the sources mentioned, in proportion to its development through USE.

The suggestion I have in mind is, that you put into a book the sum and substance of the address you delivered at Salem College, and in that way give the people of America an opportunity to profit by your many years of experience and association with the men who, by their greatness, have made America the richest nation on earth.

If you don't believe in yourself, how can you ask others to do so?

fracasso é um trapaceiro com um aguçado senso de ironia e astúcia.

OPPORTUNITY has spread its wares before you. Step up to the front, select what you want, create your plan, put the plan into action, and follow through with PERSISTENCE.

When the opportunity came, it appeared in a different form and from a different direction than Barnes had expected. That is one of the tricks of opportunity. 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.

The master mind principle cannot obtain where perfect harmony does not prevail.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

look first for the most logical motive they may use to influence the buyer's thinking and decision.

Thoughts which are mixed with any of the feelings of emotions constitute a "magnetic" force which attracts other similar or related thoughts.

You cannot afford to suggest to another person, by word of mouth or in writing, or through any act, that which you yourself do not believe.

The salesman who knows how to take his mind off the subject of sex, and direct it in sales effort with as much enthusiasm and determination as he would apply to its original purpose, has acquired the art of sex transmutation, whether he knows it or not.