Quotes from Napoleon Hill

20. Lack of concentration of effort. The "jack-of-all-trades" seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.

Success doesn't happen overnight. It takes soul-searching, hard work, and many years to achieve it.

One must realize that all who have accumulated great fortunes, first did a certain amount of dreaming, hoping, wishing, DESIRING, and PLANNING before they acquired money.

Be careful of your words. Man shall be held accountable for his lightest word. If you talk about substance in a negative way, your finances will be decreased, but if you talk about it in an appreciative, large way, you will be prospered.

Buyers generally make purchases because of some motive closely associated to their emotions.

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.

Money is as shy and elusive as the "old time" maiden.

the spell of fear in the minds of the people gradually fade away and become faith.

Es razonable suponer que el mensaje llegue a la atención de muchos que han sido golpeados por la depresión, de quienes han perdido sus fortunas, de otros que han perdido sus posiciones, y de un gran número que tienen que reorganizar sus planes y comenzar de nuevo. A todos ellos deseo expresar el pensamiento de que todo logro, sin importar cuál sea su naturaleza o finalidad, debe comenzar con un deseo intenso y ardiente por algo concreto.

Remember, too, that all who succeed in life get off to a bad start and pass through many heartbreaking struggles before they "arrive." The turning point in the lives of those who succeed usually comes at the moment of some crisis, through which they are introduced to their "other selves.

It is a well-known fact that Henry Ford began his business career under the handicap of poverty, illiteracy, and ignorance. It is an equally well-known fact that, within the inconceivably short period of ten years, Mr. Ford mastered these three handicaps, and that within twenty-five years he made himself one of the richest men in America.

Every man is where he is by the law of his being; the thoughts which he has built into his character have brought him there, and in the arrangement of his life there is no element of chance, but all is the result of a law which cannot err.

Never ask anyone to do anything for you that you wouldn't do for him or her if the circumstances were reversed. There is a

A natureza não está interessada nesse tipo de moral, ela não está interessada no certo ou no errado. Ela não está interessada na justiça ou na injustiça. O seu interesse é unicamente de forçar tudo a expressar a ação de acordo com a sua natureza.

fracasso traz consigo a semente de um sucesso equivalente.

HOW TO DEVELOP PERSISTENCE

THE SEVEN MAJOR POSITIVE EMOTIONS The emotions related to sex The emotion of love The emotion of hope The emotion of faith The emotion of enthusiasm The emotion of optimism The emotion of loyalty

that state of mind known as a BURNING DESIRE. The easy thing

Money is shy and elusive. It must be wooed and won by methods not unlike those used by a determined lover, in pursuit of the girl of his choice.

Failure in selling is the result of negative habits that must be eliminated.

I bargained with Life for a penny, And Life would pay no more, However I begged at evening When I counted my scanty store. For Life is a just employer, He gives you what you ask, But once you have set the wages, Why, you must bear the task. I worked for a menial's hire, Only to learn, dismayed, That any wage I had asked of Life, Life would have willingly paid.

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

Before success comes in any man's life, he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat, and, perhaps, some failure. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to QUIT. That is exactly what the majority of men do.

You must mix one or more of these positive emotions with the suggestions you plant in your subconscious mind if you want to broadcast thoughts and feelings that will influence your potential buyer in your favor.