Napoleon Hill Quotes

Drifting, without aim or purpose, is the first cause of failure.

The better portion of all sales I have made were made after people had said 'no'.

Attend well to your character, and your reputation will look out for itself.

Tell the world what you intend to do, but first show it.

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

If you fail to control your own mind, you may be sure you will control nothing else.

Burn the boats as you enter the island and you will take the island.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

If you think you are beaten you are, if you think you dare not, you don't. If you like to win, but you think you can't, it is almost certain you won't.

Within every setback or obstacle or disadvantage there is the seed of an equal or opposite or greater advantage or benefit.

One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.

There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.

If you do a job another's way, he or she must take the responsibility. If you do it your way, you must take the responsibility.

The power to think as you wish to think is the only power over which you have absolute control.

The great master key to riches is nothing more or less than the self-discipline necessary to help you take full and complete possession of your own mind.

The Ability to influence people without irritating them is the most profitable art known to man.

Yesterday is gone forever. Make the most of today and tomorrow if you wish to make up for lost time.

Enthusiasm is the steam that drives the engine.

Fortunate is the person who has developed the self-control to steer a straight course towards his objectives in life, without being swayed from his purpose by either commendation or condemnation.

If you love, absolutely love what you are doing, chances are excellent that you will succeed. There is nothing so exhausting as working on a job you don't like.

The only trouble with this world today lies in our lack of understanding of the power of imagination.

Enthusiasm, if fueled by inspiration and perseverance, travels with passion and its destination is excellence.

The person who works harder when the boss isn’t around is headed straight for a better job.

Behind every adversity - is an opportunity!

Don't ever admit that the world has not given you an opportunity

Handicaps can be converted into stepping stones on which one may climb toward some worthy goal, unless they are accepted as obstacles, and used as alibis.

Most failures could have been converted into successes if someone had held on another minute or made more effort.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat.

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.

Man may become the master of himself, and of his environment, because he has the POWER TO INFLUENCE HIS OWN SUBCONSCIOUS MIND, and through it, gain the cooperation of Infinite Intelligence.

We are all salesman regardless of our calling. But not all of us are Master Salesmen.

Faith and Fear make poor bedfellows. Where one is found, the other cannot exist.

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

They [the people under you] may desire help, but more than anything else they desire sympathy. Don't make the mistake of turning such men down with the statement that you have troubles of your own.

Whatever mind can concieved and believe can be achieves

The most damaging forms of intolerance are connected with religious, racial and political differences of opinion.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination.

I understand the law through the operation of which my own character is developed from my own acts and thoughts; therefore, I will guard with care all that goes into its development.

The possibilities of creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are stupendous and imponderable. They inspire one with awe.

The individual with a negative mental attitude attracts troubles as a magnet attracts steel fittings.

The only 'break' anyone can afford to rely upon is a self-made 'break'.

The greatest achievement was, at first, and for a time, but a dream.

Winners never quit, quitters never win.

If you want riches, you must refuse to accept any circumstance that leads toward poverty.

Men of action usually win - that is one of their distinctive features.

We become who we hang out with.

Success in life depends upon happiness, and happiness is found in no other way than through SERVICE that is rendered in a spirit of love.

Anybody can wish for riches, and most people do, but only a few know that a definite plan, plus a burning desire for wealth, are the only dependable means of accumulating wealth