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Napoleon Hill Writer

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: United States
  • Born: Oct 26, 1883
  • Died: Nov 8, 1970

Napoleon Hill was an American author in the area of the new thought movement who was one of the earliest producers of the modern genre of personal-success literature. He is widely considered to be one of the great writers on success. His most famous work, Think and Grow Rich, is one of the best-selling books of all time. Hill's works examined the power of personal beliefs, and the role they play in personal success. He became an advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1933 to 1936. "Anything the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can be achieved," is one of Hill's hallmark expressions. How achievement actually occurs, and a formula for it that puts success in reach of the average person, were the focal points of Hill's books.

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

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

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

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

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

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.

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

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

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

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

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

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

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

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Education comes from within you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

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

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

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