“For you to have success, you – the person that’s reading this right now – for you to have success, you have to be insane.”
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Napoleon Hill
“thoughts which go out from one's mind, also imbed themselves deeply in one's subconscious mind, where they serve as a magnet, pattern, or blueprint by which the subconscious mind is influenced while translating them into their physical equivalent.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Success comes through the application of power, and power is attained through the cooperative efforts of other people. A negative personality will not induce cooperation.”
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Napoleon Hill
“But this argument is found to be defective when examined in its effects and consequences.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Candler—mixed with the secret formula was. . . IMAGINATION!”
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Napoleon Hill
“If you don’t believe in yourself, how can you ask others to do so?”
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Napoleon Hill
“Ideas are intangible forces, but they have more power than the physical brains that give birth to them. They have the power to live on, after the brain that creates them has returned to dust.”
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Napoleon Hill
“The mind has a definite way of clothing one's thoughts in appropriate physical equivalents. Think in terms of poverty and you will live in poverty. Think in terms of opulence and you will attract opulence. Through the eternal law of harmonious attraction, one's thoughts always clothe themselves in material things appropriate unto their nature.”
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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
“It should be recognised as a crime (in reality it is a crime of the worst nature) for any parent to build inferiority complexes in the mind of a child through unnecessary criticism. Employers who understand human nature get the best there is out of people not by criticism but by constructive suggestion. Parents may accomplish the same results with their children. Criticism will plant fear or resentment in the human heart but it will not build love or affection.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Life’s battles don’t always go To the stronger or faster man, But soon or late the man who wins Is the man who thinks he can!”
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Napoleon Hill
“I had the happy privilege of analyzing both Mr. Edison and Mr. Ford, year by year, over a long period of years, and therefore, the opportunity to study them at close range, so I speak from actual knowledge when I say that I found no quality save persistence, in either of them, that even remotely suggested the major source of their stupendous achievements.”
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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