“Analysis of several hundred people who had accumulated fortunes well beyond the million dollar mark, disclosed the fact that every one of them had the habit of REACHING DECISIONS PROMPTLY, and of changing these decisions SLOWLY, if, and when they were changed. People who fail to accumulate money, without exception have the habit of reaching decisions, IF AT ALL, very slowly, and of changing these decisions quickly and often.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.”
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Napoleon Hill
“PROCRASTINATION. The habit of putting off until tomorrow that which should have been done last year.”
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Napoleon Hill
“knowledge is power.” It is nothing of the sort! Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when, and if, it is organized into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite end.”
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Napoleon Hill
“an intangible impulse of thought can be transmuted into material rewards”
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Napoleon Hill
“Success comes to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.”
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Napoleon Hill
“When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Instead of complaining about what you don’t like about your job, start commending what you do like and see how quickly it improves.”
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Napoleon Hill
“When a group of individual brains are coordinated and function in Harmony, the increased energy created through that alliance, becomes available to every individual brain in the group.”
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Napoleon Hill
“The object of your definite chief aim should become your "hobby." You should ride this "hobby" continuously; you should sleep with it, eat with it, play with it, work with it, live with it and THINK with it.”
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Napoleon Hill
“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
“Have you noticed that the most effective worker is generally the busiest?”
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Napoleon Hill
“FAITH and FEAR make poor bedfellows. Where one is found, the other cannot exist.”
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Napoleon Hill
“far as science has been able to determine, the entire universe consists of but two elements—matter and energy
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Napoleon Hill
“If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.”
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Napoleon Hill
