“He did not say, “I will work there for a few months, and if I get no encouragement, I will quit and get a job somewhere else.” He did say, “I will start anywhere. I will do anything Edison tells me to do, but before I am through, I will be his associate.” He did not say, “I will keep my eyes open for another opportunity, in case I fail to get what I want in the Edison organization.” He said, “There is but one thing in this world that I am determined to have, and that is a business association with Thomas A. Edison. I will burn all bridges behind me, and stake my entire future on my ability to get what I want.” He left himself no possible way of retreat. He had to win or perish!”
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Napoleon Hill
“Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application towards some worthy end.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Henry Ford has been repeatedly mentioned, because he is an astounding example of what a man with a mind of his own, and a will to control it, can accomplish.”
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Napoleon Hill
“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.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Sex, alone, is a mighty urge to action, but its forces are like a cyclone—they are often uncontrollable. When the emotion of love begins to mix itself with the emotion of sex, the result is calmness of purpose, poise, accuracy of judgment, and balance
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Napoleon Hill
“¡todos los logros, todas las riquezas obtenidas, tienen su comienzo en una idea!”
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Napoleon Hill
“no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty”
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Napoleon Hill
“an intangible impulse of thought can be transmuted into its physical counterpart by the application of known principles.”
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Napoleon Hill
“If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.”
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Napoleon Hill
“You may as well know, also that every great leader, from the dawn of civilization down to the present, was a dreamer.
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Napoleon Hill
“Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.”
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Napoleon Hill
“There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of LACK OF AMBITION!”
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Napoleon Hill
“Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you;until you have culrivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire; until you have formed the habit of looking for good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy”
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Napoleon Hill
