Quotes from Napoleon Hill

Which, translated into workaday language, means that none of us know very much, and by the very nature of our being can never know as much as we need to know in order to live sanely and enjoy life while we live.

They know they are going to succeed, and if one plan fails they quickly replace it with another plan.

Success in life, no matter what one may call success, is very largely a matter of adaptation to environment in such a manner that there is harmony between the individual and his environment. The palace of a king becomes as a hovel of a peasant if harmony does not abound within its walls. Conversely stated, the hut of a peasant may be made to yield more happiness than that of the mansion of the rich man, if harmony obtains in the former and not in the latter.

Thousands of men and women carry inferiority complexes with them all through life, because some well-meaning, but ignorant person destroyed their confidence through "opinions" or ridicule.

Remember, too, that all who succeed in life get off to a bad start, and pass through many heartbreaking struggles before they arrive.

Generally, the youth just out of school seeks any job that can be found. He takes the first place he finds, because he has fallen into the habit of indecision. Ninety-eight out of every hundred people working for wages today, are in the positions they hold, because they lacked the definiteness

Those who are not successful usually make the mistake of believing that the knowledge acquiring period ends when one finishes school. The truth is that schooling does but little more than to put one in the way of learning how to acquire practical knowledge.

I bargained with Life for a penny, And Life would pay no more, However I begged at evening When I counted my scanty store.

There can be no progress, no achievement without sacrifice, and a man's worldly success will be in the measure that he sacrifices his confused animal thoughts, and fixes his mind on the development of his plans, and the strengthening of his resolution and self-reliance. And the higher he lifts his thoughts, the more manly, upright, and righteous he becomes, the greater will be his success, the more blessed and enduring will be his achievements.

La forma de poder en la que existo es negativa! La oposición controla las fuerzas positivas y yo controlo las negativas. Por eso soy tan poderoso. Yo controlo las fuerzas del odio, el miedo, la vanidad, la avaricia, la codicia, la venganza, la superstición y la lujuria. Esas son las fuerzas que gobiernan el mundo, y yo controlo al 98% de la gente del mundo porque controlo esas fuerzas.

No tendré que negar tu historia. Mis seguidores lo harán por mí, lo verás.

Barnes literally thought  himself into a partnership with the great Edison! He thought himself into a fortune. He had nothing to start with, except the capacity to KNOW WHAT HE WANTED, AND THE DETERMINATION TO STAND BY THAT DESIRE UNTIL HE REALIZED IT. He had no money to begin with. He had but little education. He had no influence. But he did have initiative, faith, and the will to win. With these intangible forces he made himself number one man with the greatest inventor who ever lived.

YOU ARE "THE MASTER OF YOUR FATE, THE CAPTAIN OF YOUR SOUL

Financial independence, riches, desirable business and professional positions are not within reach of the person who neglects or refuses to expect, plan, and demand these things. The person who desires riches in the same spirit that Samuel Adams desired freedom for the colonies is sure to accumulate wealth.

I learned that when one needs anything very badly, it is very difficult for him to find anyone who wishes to help him get it, but when one gets over the hump, achieves recognition, and no longer needs help, then just about everybody on earth wants to do something for him.

Concentration develops the power of persistence and enables you to master all forms of temporary defeat.

Analysis of several hundred people who had accumulated fortunes well beyond the million dollar mark, disclosed the fact that every one of them had the habit of REACHING DECISIONS PROMPTLY, and of changing these decisions SLOWLY, if, and when they were changed. People who fail to accumulate money, without exception, have the habit of reaching decisions, IF AT ALL, very slowly, and of changing these decisions quickly and often.

we must magnetize our minds with intense DESIRE for riches, that we must become money conscious until the DESIRE for money drives us to create definite plans for acquiring it.

Ignorance and Fear are twin sisters. They are generally found together.

Be glad to Give as much as you Take.

In every adversity or defeat there is a seed of equal or greater benefit.

will devote ten minutes daily to demanding of myself the development of SELF-CONFIDENCE.

In connection with this, consider again the statement, ALL THOUGHTS WHICH HAVE BEEN EMOTIONALIZED, (given feeling) AND MIXED WITH FAITH, begin immediately to translate themselves into their physical equivalent or counterpart.

?ovjek koji odustaje, nikada ne ostvaruje pobjedu — jer pobjednik nikada ne odustaje.