“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. More than five hundred of the most successful men this country has ever known told the author their greatest success came just one step beyond the point at which defeat had overtaken them.”
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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
“A man’s best recommendation is that which he gives himself . . . by rendering superior service in the right mental attitude.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Disappointment over love affairs, generally has the effect of driving men to drink, and women to ruin; and this, because most people never learn the art of transmuting their strongest emotions into dreams of a constructive nature.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Taking an inventory of mental assets and liabilities, you will discover that your greatest weakness is lack of self-confidence. This handicap can be surmounted - and timidity translated into courage - through the aid of the principle of autosuggestion.”
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Napoleon Hill
“It should be remembered also that the outlook from the bottom is not so very bright or encouraging. It has a tendency to kill off ambition. We call it “getting into a rut,” which means that we accept our fate because we form the HABIT of daily routine, a habit that finally becomes so strong we cease to try to throw it off.”
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Napoleon Hill
“When you are able to maintain your own highest standards of integrity - regardless of what others may do - you are destined for greatness.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Fear of competition from followers. The leader who fears that one of his followers may take his position is practically sure to realize that fear sooner or later.”
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Napoleon Hill
“When a group of individual brains are coordinated and function in Harmony, the increased energy created through that alliance, becomes available to every individual brain in the group.”
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Napoleon Hill
“(Whatever human mind can conceive, it can achieve!)”
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Napoleon Hill
“your poverty is serving no one. If you’re a charitable person, you’d be a whole lot more charitable if you had lots of money.”
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Napoleon Hill
“A quitter never wins—and— a winner never quits.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Remember, also, that every time you open your mouth in the presence of a person who has an abundance of knowledge, you display to that person, your exact stock of knowledge, or your LACK of it!”
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Napoleon Hill
“Cherish your vision and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.”
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Napoleon Hill
“The only limitation is that which one sets up in one's own mind.”
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Napoleon Hill
