“the cause of the depression is traceable directly to the worldwide habit of trying to reap without sowing.”
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Napoleon Hill
“The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on DESPITE all opposition, until they attain their goal. These few are the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Edisons. There may be no heroic connotation to the word persistence, but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Instead of complaining about what you don’t like about your job, start commending what you do like and see how quickly it improves.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Every adversity, every unpleasant circumstance, every failure, and every physical pain carries with it the seed of an equivalent benefit.”
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Napoleon Hill
“I had learned, from years of experience with men, that when a man really desires a thing so deeply that he is willing to stake his entire future on a single turn of the wheel in order to get it, he is sure to win.”
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Napoleon Hill
“We rise to high positions or remain at the bottom because of conditions we can control if we desire to control them.”
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Napoleon Hill
“If you are ready for the secret, you already possess one half of it,therefore, you will readily recognize the other half the moment it reaches your mind.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Accurate analysis of over 25,000 men and women who had experienced failure, disclosed the fact that lack of decision was near the head of the list of the 30 major causes of failure. This is no mere statement of a theory— it is a fact
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Napoleon Hill
“when a man really desires a thing so deeply that he is willing to stake his entire future on a single turn of the wheel in order to get it, he is sure to win.”
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Napoleon Hill
“If you are influenced by the opinions of others, you will have no desire of your own.”
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Napoleon Hill
“One sound idea is all that one needs to achieve success.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Employers who understand human nature, get the best there is in men, not by criticism, but by constructive suggestion.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Mind control is the result of self-discipline and habit. You either control your mind or it controls you. There is no hall-way compromise.”
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Napoleon Hill
“If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Those who work for money alone, and who receive for their pay nothing but money, are always underpaid, no matter how much they receive. Money is necessary, but the big prizes of life cannot be measured in dollars and cents. No”
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