“Every man is what he is because of the dominating thoughts which he permits to occupy his mind.”
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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
“We rise to high positions or remain at the bottom because of conditions we can control if we desire to control them.”
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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
“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
“Grove encourages his people to work in small, autonomous work units in which everyone understands the system and their role in it. Each person contributes their knowledge, expertise and creativity. Team members are trained and motivated to produce to the best of their capacity. When crises arise, the team willingly puts in the extra time, energy and brain power to meet and beat the problems faced.”
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Napoleon Hill
“AUTOSUGGESTION is the agency of control through which an individual may voluntarily feed his subconscious mind on thoughts of a creative nature, or, by neglect, permit thoughts of a destructive nature to find their way into this rich garden of the mind.”
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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
“The emotions of faith, love, and Sex are the most powerful of all the major positive emotions.
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Napoleon Hill
“Man can create nothing which he does not first conceive in the form of an impulse of thought.”
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Napoleon Hill
“The time will never be “just right.” 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
“I am master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.”
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Napoleon Hill
“He recalled, too, his mistake in having stopped only three feet from gold. “But,” he said, “that experience was a blessing in disguise. It taught me to keep on keeping on, no matter how hard the going may be, a lesson I needed to learn before I could succeed in anything.”
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Napoleon Hill
“One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when overtaken by temporary defeat.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Fear, the worst of all enemies, can be effectively cured by forced repetition of acts of courage.”
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Napoleon Hill
