Napoleon Hill Quotes

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There is some one thing that you can do better than anyone else in the world could do it. Search until you find out what this particular line of endeavor is, then organize all of your forces and attack it with the belief that you are going to win.

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If you have been wise and successful I congratulate you. Unless you are unable to forget how successful you have been, then I pity you.

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Successful people are decisive people. When opportunities come their way, they evaluate them carefully, make a decision, and take appropriate action. They know that indecision wastes time that could be spent on more productive tasks.

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No man can avail himself of the forces of his creative imagination, while dissipating them.

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The road to success may be, and generally is, obstructed by many influences which must be removed before the goal can be reached.

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Moral courage further demands that you assume the responsibility for your own acts.

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You are engaged in an undertaking of major importance to you. To be sure of success, you must have plans which are faultless.

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Intelligent planning is essential for success in any undertaking designed to accumulate riches.

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Charles Chaplin makes a million dollars a year out of a funny, shuffling walk and a pair of baggy trousers, because he does "something different." Take the hint and "individualize" yourself with some distinctive idea.

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Persistence is the direct result of habit. The mind absorbs and becomes a part of the daily experiences upon which it feeds. Fear, the worst of all enemies, can be effectively cured by forced repetition of acts of courage.

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A man is most efficient and will more quickly and easily succeed when engaged in work that he loves, or work that he performs in behalf of some person whom he loves.

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There can never be success without happiness, and no man can be happy without dispensing happiness to others.

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Are you waiting for success to arrive, or are you going out to find where it is hiding?

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It is strange, but true, that the most important turning-points of life often come at the most unexpected times and in the most unexpected ways.

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We have already discovered the fact that fear is the chief reason for poverty and failure and misery that takes on a thousand different forms. We have already discovered the fact that the man who masters fear may march on to successful achievement in practically any undertaking, despite all efforts to defeat him.

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No one could become an efficient leader or take the initiative in any great undertaking without belief in himself.

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The most that can be said of flattery is that it is sometimes a cheap psychological trick with which charlatans and dishonest people lull others into a state of carelessness while they pick their pockets.

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People buy personalities as much as merchandise, and it is a question if they are not influenced more by the personalities with which they come in contact than they are by the merchandise.

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If you truly desire money so keenly that your desire is an obsession, you will have no difficulty in convincing yourself that you will acquire it. The object is to want money, and to be so determined to have it that you convince yourself that you will have it.

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Until a man selects a DEFINITE PURPOSE IN LIFE, he dissipates his energies & spreads his thoughts over so many subjects & in so many different directions that they lead not to power, but to indecision & weakness.

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One must realize that all who have accumulated great fortunes first did a certain amount of dreaming, hoping, wishing, desiring, and planning before they acquired money.

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The story of practically every great fortune starts with the day when a creator of ideas and a seller of ideas got together and worked in harmony.

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A state of mind is something that one assumes. It cannot be purchased, it must be created.

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You have within you all the power you need with which to get whatever you want or need in this world.

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You must master the habit of procrastination and eliminate it from your wake-up. This habit of putting off until tomorrow that which you should have done last week or last year or a score of years ago is gnawing at the very vitals of your being and you can accomplish nothing until you throw it off.

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If you fail to control your own mind, you may be sure you will control nothing else.

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The space you occupy and the authority you exercise may be measured with mathematical exactness by the service you render.

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If it isn't your job to do it, perhaps it is your opportunity

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There are twelve good reasons for failure. The first one is the avowed intention of doing no more than one is paid to do, and the person who makes this avowal may see the other eleven by stepping before a looking glass.

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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.

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