“Show me a man’s closest associates,” said Thomas A. Edison, “and I will tell you what sort of character the man has and where he is going in life.”
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Napoleon Hill
“If you are influenced by the opinions of others, you will have no desire of your own.”
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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
“The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. The finishing point is that brand of KNOWLEDGE which leads to understanding-understanding of self, understanding of others, understanding of the laws of Nature, recognition and understanding of HAPPINESS.”
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Napoleon Hill
“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
“Every failure carries with it the seed of an equivalent or greater reward’
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Napoleon Hill
“All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Opinions” are the cheapest commodities on earth.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Analysis of several hundred people who had accumulated fortunes well beyond the million dollar mark, disclosed the fact that every one of them had the habit of REACHING DECISIONS PROMPTLY, and of changing these decisions SLOWLY, if, and when they were changed. People who fail to accumulate money, without exception have the habit of reaching decisions, IF AT ALL, very slowly, and of changing these decisions quickly and often.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.”
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Napoleon Hill
“This is a capitalistic country, it was developed through the use of capital, and we who claim the right to partake of the blessings of freedom and opportunity, we who seek to accumulate riches here, may as well know that neither riches nor opportunity would be available to us if organized capital had not provided these benefits. For more than twenty years it has been a somewhat popular and growing pastime for radicals, self-seeking politicians, racketeers, crooked labor leaders, and on occasion religious leaders, to take pot-shots at “Wall Street, the money changers, and big business.” The practice became so general that we witnessed during the business depression, the unbelievable sight of high government officials lining up with the cheap politicians, and labor leaders, with the openly avowed purpose of throttling the system which has made Industrial America the richest country on earth. The line-up was so general and so well organized that it prolonged the worst depression America has ever known. It cost millions of men their jobs, because those jobs were inseparably a part of the industrial and capitalistic system which form the very backbone of the nation.
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Napoleon Hill
“Very well, Broadway, you may whip some, but not me. I’m going to force you to give up.”
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Napoleon Hill
“no one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Any ideas, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought”
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Napoleon Hill
