“This idea of starting at the bottom and working one’s way up may appear to be sound, but the major objection to it is this— too many of those who begin at the bottom never manage to lift their heads high enough to be seen by opportunity, so they remain at the bottom. It should be remembered, also, that the outlook from the bottom is not so very bright or encouraging.”
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Napoleon Hill
“There are no limitations to the mind except those that we acknowledge.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Let this happy day give birth to an American Republic. Let her arise, not to devastate and to conquer, but to reestablish the reign of peace, and of law.”
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Napoleon Hill
“TRULY, "thoughts are things," and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a BURNING DESIRE for their translation into riches, or other material objects.
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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
“It is an eternal truth that men receive more pay for their ABILITY TO GET OTHERS TO PERFORM, than they could possibly earn by their own efforts.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.”
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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
“Love is, without question, life’s greatest experience.”
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Napoleon Hill
“It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Lack of harmony and cooperation between the railroad management and the workers has made it necessary for the railroads to increase their freight and passenger rates, and this, in turn, has increased the cost of life's necessities to almost unbearable proportions. Here, again, lack of cooperation between a few leads to hardship for millions of people.”
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Napoleon Hill
“(Whatever human mind can conceive, it can achieve!)”
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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. More than five hundred of the most successful men this country has ever known told the author their greatest success came just one step beyond the point at which defeat had overtaken them.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Do not wait: the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.”
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Napoleon Hill
