Napoleon Hill

Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement.
– Napoleon Hill

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.
– Napoleon Hill

Every company has room for the man who has a definite plan of action which is to the
advantage of that company.
– Napoleon Hill

A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.
– Napoleon Hill

Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.
– Napoleon Hill

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have
been done the day before yesterday.
– Napoleon Hill

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating
desire which trancends everything.
– Napoleon Hill

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
– Napoleon Hill

Every company has room for the man who has a definite plan of action which is to the
advantage of that company.
– Napoleon Hill

Success in highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness,
which comes only to the man who has found the work he likes best.
– Napoleon Hill

Most so-called failures are only temporary defeats.
– Napoleon Hill

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
– Napoleon Hill

You may be hurt if you love too much, but you will live in misery if you love too little.
– Napoleon Hill

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
– Napoleon Hill

When you are able to maintain your own highest standards of integrity, regardless of what
others may do, you are destined for greatness.
– Napoleon Hill

The starting point of all achievements is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire
brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.
– Napoleon Hill

Cherish your vision and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of
your ultimate achievements.
– Napoleon Hill

Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you
pass.
– Napoleon Hill

More gold had been mined from the mind of men than the earth itself.
– Napoleon Hill

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.
– Napoleon Hill

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where
he is going.
– Napoleon Hill

There’s a difference between wishing for something and being ready to receive it. No one’s
ready to receive it until they believe that they can acquire.
– Napoleon Hill

A man is half whipped the minute he begins to feel sorry for himself or to spin an alibi with
which he would explain away his defeats.
– Napoleon Hill

If you do not believe in co-operation look what happens to a wagon that loses its wheel.
– Napoleon Hill

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
– Napoleon Hill

Every failure is a blessing in disguise providing it teaches some needed lesson one could not
have learned without it. Most so-called defeats are only temporary defeats.
– Napoleon Hill

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either
success or failure in the mind of another.
– Napoleon Hill

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself
with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
– Napoleon Hill

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
– Napoleon Hill

The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.
– Napoleon Hill

No one can short-circuit the Law of Economics. The beginning of financial ruin is when you
try to get more and do less.
– Napoleon Hill

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.
– 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.
– Napoleon Hill

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only
after you have paid her price.
– Napoleon Hill

Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail
a few times.
– Napoleon Hill

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
– Napoleon Hill

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
– Napoleon Hill

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of
the doubt, and remain silent.
– Napoleon Hill

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
– Napoleon Hill

A goal is a dream with a deadline.
– Napoleon Hill

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest
failure.
– Napoleon Hill

Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and,
perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing
to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do.
– Napoleon Hill

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind’s eye, and you will be drawn
toward it.
– Napoleon Hill

Action is the real measure of intelligence.
– Napoleon Hill

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
– Napoleon Hill

You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own
environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.
– Napoleon Hill

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.
– Napoleon Hill

Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds.
– Napoleon Hill

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater
benefit.
– Napoleon Hill

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
– Napoleon Hill

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans,
and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
– Napoleon Hill

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he
receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people
served.
– Napoleon Hill

When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to
achieve.
– Napoleon Hill

What a different story people would have to tell if they would adopt a definite purpose and
stand by that purpose until it had time to become an all-consuming purpose.
– Napoleon Hill

Time is a master worker that heals the wounds of temporary defeat, and equalizes the
inequities and rights the wrongs of the world. There is nothing “impossible” with time.
– Napoleon Hill

No man has a chance to enjoy permanent success until he begins to look in a mirror for the
real cause of all his mistakes.
– Napoleon Hill

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or
not, to put this plan into action.
– Napoleon Hill

Neglecting to broaden their view has kept some people doing one thing all their lives.
– Napoleon Hill

Adversity will do something to you or for you.
– Napoleon Hill

Who said it could not be done? And what good victories has he to his credit which qualify him
to judge others accurately?
– Napoleon Hill

Think and grow rich.
– Napoleon Hill

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the
knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
– Napoleon Hill

You give before you get.
– Napoleon Hill

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.
– Napoleon Hill

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
– Napoleon Hill

Render more service than for which you are paid and you will soon be paid for more than you
render. The law of “increasing returns” takes care of this.
– Napoleon Hill

Never in the history of the world has there been such abundant opportunity as there is now
for the person who is willing to serve before trying to collect.
– Napoleon Hill

Don’t be afraid of a little opposition. Remember that the kite of success generally rises
against the wind of adversity – not with it.
– Napoleon Hill

Imagination is the most marvelous, inconceivably pwerful force the world has ever known.
– Napoleon Hill

The greatest achievements of men, were at first, nothing but dreams of the minds of men
who knew that dreams are the seedlings of all achievements. A burning desire, to be and to
do, is the starting point, from which the dreamer must take off.
– Napoleon Hill

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
– Napoleon Hill

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
– Napoleon Hill

We are what we are, because of the vibrations of thought which we pick up and register,
through the stimuli of our daily environment.
– Napoleon Hill

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice,
therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.
– Napoleon Hill

It is always your next move.
– Napoleon Hill

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
– Napoleon Hill

Truly, thoughts are things, and their scope of operation is the world, itself.
– Napoleon Hill

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new
plans to take the place of those which fail.
– Napoleon Hill

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
– Napoleon Hill

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
– Napoleon Hill

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
– Napoleon Hill

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then
transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your
imagination.
– Napoleon Hill

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.
– Napoleon Hill

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow
man.
– Napoleon Hill

What persistence really does is build money consciousness. That’s why the money arrives in
bunches when it finally arrives.
– Napoleon Hill

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
– Napoleon Hill

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
– Napoleon Hill