“knowledge will not attract money, unless it is organized, and intelligently directed, through practical plans of action, to the definite end of accumulation of money. Lack of understanding of this fact has been the source of confusion to millions of people who falsely believe that “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
“Ships and railways do not spring up from the earth and function automatically. They come in response to the call of civilisation, through the labour and ingenuity and organising ability of people who have imagination, faith, enthusiasm, decision and persistence! These people are known as capitalists. They are motivated by the desire to build, construct, achieve, provide useful service, earn profits and accumulate riches. And, because they provide service without which there would be no civilisation, they put themselves in the way of great riches.”
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Napoleon Hill
“It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.”
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Napoleon Hill
“A positive mind finds a way it can be done. A negative mind looks for all the ways it can’t be done.”
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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
It may interest you to know that Marconi’s “friends” had him taken into custody, and examined in a psychopathic hospital, when he announced he had discovered a principle through which he could send messages through the air, without the aid of wires, or other direct physical means of communication. The dreamers of today fare better. The world has become accustomed to new discoveries. Nay, it has shown a willingness to reward the dreamer who gives the world a new idea.
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Napoleon Hill
“Strength, both physical and spiritual, is the product of struggle!”
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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
“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 maintaning that state of mind known as a BURNING DESIRE TO WIN, essential to success.”
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Napoleon Hill
“affliction was not a liability, but an asset of great value.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.”
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Napoleon Hill
“The object of this book is to help all who seek it, to learn the art of changing their minds from failure consciousness to success consciousness.”
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Napoleon Hill
“A mind dominated by positive emotions, becomes a favorable abode for the state of mind known as faith.”
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Napoleon Hill
