“When people first come into contact with crime, they abhor it. If they remain in contact with crime for a time, they become accustomed to it, and endure it. If they remain in contact with it long enough, they finally embrace it, and become influenced by it.”
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Napoleon Hill
“the world has the habit of making room for the man whose words and actions show that he knows where he is going.”
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Napoleon Hill
“We refuse to believe that which we don't understand.”
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Napoleon Hill
“As Carlyle put it—“All that mankind has done, thought, gained or been—it is lying in matchless preservation in the pages of books.”
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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, right here, that you can never have riches in great quantities, unless you can work yourself into a white heat of desire for money, and actually believe you will possess it.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Never ask anyone to do anything for you that you wouldn’t do for him or her if the circumstances were reversed.
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Napoleon Hill
“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them. If you are influenced by "opinions" when you reach DECISIONS, you will not succeed in any undertaking.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Plain, unemotional words do not influence the subconscious mind. You will get no appreciable results until you learn to reach your subconscious mind with thoughts, or spoken words which have been well emotionalized with BELIEF.”
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Napoleon Hill
“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.
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Napoleon Hill
“The day of the “go-getter” has passed. He has been supplanted by the “go-giver.”
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Napoleon Hill
“One of Henry Ford’s most outstanding qualities is his habit of reaching decisions quickly and definitely, and changing them slowly.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
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Napoleon Hill
