“All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.”
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Napoleon Hill
“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
“THOUGHTS WHICH HAVE BEEN EMOTIONALIZED, (given feeling) AND MIXED WITH FAITH, begin immediately to translate themselves into their physical equivalent or counterpart.”
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Napoleon Hill
“missing link" in all systems of education known to civilization today, may be found in the failure of educational institutions to teach their students HOW TO ORGANIZE AND USE KNOWLEDGE AFTER THEY ACQUIRE IT.”
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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 comes to believe whatever one repeats to one’s self, whether the statement be true or false.
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Napoleon Hill
“Keep your eyes and ears wide open— and your mouth closed, if you wish to acquire the habit of prompt decision.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Experience has proven that the best-educated people are often those who are known as ‘self-made’ or self-educated. It takes more than a university degree to make one a person of education. Any person who is educated has learned to get whatever they want in life without violating the rights of others. Education consists not so much of knowledge, but of knowledge effectively and persistently applied. People are paid not merely for what they know, but more particularly for what they do with what they know.”
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Napoleon Hill
“an intangible impulse of thought can be transmuted into material rewards”
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Napoleon Hill
“Every man is what he is, because of the DOMINATING THOUGHTS which he permits to occupy his mind.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Disappointment over love affairs generally has the effect of driving men to drink, and women to ruin; and this, because most people never learn the art of transmuting their strongest emotions into dreams of a constructive nature.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life, not on what you don’t want.”
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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
“If you believe yourself unfortunate because you have loved and lost, perish the thought. One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely.”
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Napoleon Hill