“A long while ago, a great warrior had to make a decision which ensured his success on the battlefield. He was about to send his armies against a powerful foe, whose men outnumbered his own. He loaded his soldiers into boats, sailed to the enemy’s country, unloaded soldiers and equipment, then gave the order to burn the ships that had carried them. Addressing his men before the first battle, he said, ‘You see the boats going up in smoke. That means that we cannot leave these shores alive unless we win! We now have no choice - we win or we perish!’They won. Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat. Only by so doing can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win, essential to success.”
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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
“Desire The Starting Point of All Achievement: the First Step Toward Riches”
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Napoleon Hill
“The person who stops studying merely because he or she has finished school is forever hopelessly doomed to mediocrity, no matter what that person’s calling. The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.”
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Napoleon Hill
“The first and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered by self is, of all things, the most shameful and vile.”
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Napoleon Hill
“It may interest you to know that Marconi’s “friends” had him taken into custody, and examined in a psychopathic hospital, when he announced he had discovered a principle through which he could send messages through the air, without the aid of wires, or other direct physical means of communication. The dreamers of today fare better.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Meet struggle and master it, says nature, and you shall have strength and wisdom sufficient for all your needs.”
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Napoleon Hill
“those who master and apply the secret will reach high stations, accumulate riches, and bargain with life on their own terms, even if their schooling has been meagre.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Every great railroad, and every outstanding financial institution and every mammoth business enterprise, and every great invention, began in the imagination of some one person.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Most great people have achieved their greatest success just one
step beyond their greatest failure.”
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Napoleon Hill
“As Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “One single idea may have greater weight than the labor of all the men, animals and engines for a century.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Each of us is what we are because of the DOMINATING THOUGHTS which we permit to occupy our mind.
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Napoleon Hill
“Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis.”
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Napoleon Hill
“A real student will not merely read this book, he will absorb its contents and make them his own.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Remember, too, that all who succeed in life get off to a bad start, and pass through many heartbreaking struggles before they ‘arrive’.”
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Napoleon Hill
