“In parting, I would remind you that “Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by time. You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate decisions!”
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Napoleon Hill
“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
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Napoleon Hill
“The object of this book is to help all who seek it, to learn the art of changing their minds from failure consciousness to success consciousness.”
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Napoleon Hill
“One of the strange things about human beings is that they value only that which has a price.”
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Napoleon Hill
“YOU ARE "THE MASTER OF YOUR FATE, THE CAPTAIN OF YOUR SOUL,”
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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
“The ability to say ‘woe is me’ shows an abundance of inactivity.” If I have time to think about how crappy things are, then I simply am not in action. I am not doing enough.”
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Napoleon Hill
“There is a difference between WISHING for a thing and being READY to receive it. No one is ready for a thing, until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be BELIEF, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief.”
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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
“Psychologists have correctly said that “when one is truly ready for a thing, it puts in its appearance.”
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Napoleon Hill
“No one could ride a horse if the horse discovered its real strength. The same thing is true for people.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Millions of people believe themselves ‘doomed’ to poverty and failure, because of some strange force over which they believe they have no control. They are the creators of their own ‘misfortunes’ because of this negative belief, which is picked up by the subconscious mind and translated into its physical equivalent.”
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Napoleon Hill
“everything you touch will begin to transmute itself into an asset for your benefit.”
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Napoleon Hill
“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.
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Napoleon Hill
“When the going is hardest, just keep on keeping on, and you’ll get there sooner than someone who finds the going easy.”
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Napoleon Hill