“Why? Personalities! Ninety-nine people out of every hundred who purchase life insurance policies do not know what is in their policies and, what seems more startling, do not seem to care. What they really purchase is the pleasing personality of some man or woman who knows the value of cultivating such a personality.
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Napoleon Hill
“A mind ill with negative attitudes is more dangerous than a sick body, for its sickness is always contagious”
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Napoleon Hill
“THOUGHTS WHICH HAVE BEEN EMOTIONALIZED, (given feeling) AND MIXED WITH FAITH, begin immediately to translate themselves into their physical equivalent or counterpart.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Sound character is our greatest asset because it provides the power with which we may ride the emergencies of life instead of going down under them.”
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Napoleon Hill
“You cannot afford to suggest to another person, by word of mouth or in writing, or through any act, that which you yourself do not believe.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Before you can achieve success in the higher and broader sense you must gain such thorough control over yourself that you will be a person of poise.”
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Napoleon Hill
“More gold had been mined from the mind of men than the earth it self”
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Napoleon Hill
“Psychologists have correctly said that “when one is truly ready for a thing, it puts in its appearance.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Opportunity...it often comes disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat.”
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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
“Money, without brains, always is dangerous. Properly used, it is the most important essential of civilization. The simple breakfast here described could not have been delivered to the New York family at a dime each, or at any other price, if organized capital had not provided the machinery, the ships, the railroads, and the huge armies of trained men to operate them.
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Napoleon Hill
“Those who are afraid of new ideas are doomed before they start.”
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Napoleon Hill
“TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.This is the equivalent of saying "deeds, and not words, are what count most.”
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Napoleon Hill
