“Awake,arise,and assert yourself,you dreamers of the world. Your star is now in ascendancy.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Fortunate is the young woman who learns this great truth and keeps her lover always guessing, always on the defensive lest he may lose her
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Napoleon Hill
“The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE.”
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Napoleon Hill
“The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on DESPITE all opposition, until they attain their goal. These few are the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Edisons. There may be no heroic connotation to the word persistence, but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel.”
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Napoleon Hill
“THE "depression" was a blessing in disguise. It reduced the whole world to a new starting point that gives every one a new opportunity.”
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Napoleon Hill
“The starting point of all individual achievement is the adoption of a definite major purpose and a specific plan for its attainment.
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Napoleon Hill
“If the thing you wish to do is right, and you believe in it, go ahead and do it! Put your dream across, and never mind what ‘they’ say if you meet with temporary defeat, for ‘they’, perhaps, do not know that every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Mind control is the result of self-discipline and habit. You either control your mind or it controls you. There is no hall-way compromise.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Success is the development of the power with which to get whatever one wants in life without interfering with the rights of others.
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Napoleon Hill
“Riches do not respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.
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Napoleon Hill
“Those who work for money alone, and who receive for their pay nothing but money, are always underpaid, no matter how much they receive. Money is necessary, but the big prizes of life cannot be measured in dollars and cents. No”
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Napoleon Hill
“To win the big stakes in this changed world, you must catch the spirit of the great pioneers of the past, whose dreams have given to civilization all that it has of value, the spirit that serves as the life-blood of our own country – your opportunity and mine, to develop and market our talents.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Fear of poverty is a state of mind, nothing else! But it is sufficient to destroy one’s chances of achievement in any undertaking, a truth which became painfully evident during the depression.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Consider, for example, the strange and fascinating story of Mohammed; analyze his life, compare him with men of achievement in this modern age of industry and finance, and observe how they have one outstanding trait in common, persistence!”
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Napoleon Hill