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Oliver Napoleon Hill was an American self-help author. He is known best for his book Think and Grow Rich which is among the 10 best selling self-help books of all time. Hill's works insisted that fervid expectations are essential to improving one's life. Most of his books were promoted as expounding principles to achieve "success".

✵ 26. October 1883 – 8. November 1970
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Napoleon Hill Quotes

“All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea!”

Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich

Source: Think and Grow Rich (1938), p.18

“I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my Definite Purpose in life, therefore, I DEMAND of myself persistent, continuous action toward its attainment, and I here and now promise to render such action.”

Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich

Source: Think and Grow Rich (1938), p. 54

“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”

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The Science of Personal Achievement (Audio - Nightingale-Conant).

“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and burning desire, can be translated into riches. Use auto-suggestion, have faith, imagination and overcome fear and time is your opposite player as in checkerboard.”

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As quoted in Self-Motivation Through Risk Taking! : Are You Leading Or Do You Wither with Problems? (2005) by M. Nadarajan Munisamy

“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”

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“Here is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.”

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“The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.”

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“Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.”

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“Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.”

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“You give before you get.”

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“No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.”

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“There is no substitute for honesty... there is NO HOPE for the person who is dishonest...”

Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich

Think and Grow Rich (1938), p.88

“Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by time. You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate indecision!”

Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich

Source: Think and Grow Rich (1938), p. 173

“Most people are too indifferent or lazy to acquire facts with which to think accurately. They prefer to act on "opinions" created by guesswork or snap-judgments.”

Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich

Think and Grow Rich (1938) p.88

“Quick riches are more dangerous than poverty.”

Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich

Source: Think and Grow Rich (1938)

“Power in the hands of one who did not acquire it gradually, is often fatal to success.”

Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich

Source: Think and Grow Rich (1938)
Context: Sons and daughters of wealthy men, and others who inherit money which they did not earn...

“Inability to cooperate with others. More people lose their positions and their big opportunities in life, because of this fault, than for all other reasons combined.”

Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich

Think and Grow Rich (1938)

“The most damaging forms of intemperance are connected with eating, strong drink, and sexual activities. Overindulgence in any of these is fatal to success.”

Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich

Think and Grow Rich (1938) p.88

“The person with a "closed" mind on any subject seldom gets ahead. Intolerance means that one has stopped acquiring knowledge. The most damaging forms of intolerance are those connected with religious, racial, and political differences of opinion.”

Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich

Think and Grow Rich (1938) p.88

“No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like. The most essential step in the marketing of personal services is that of selecting an occupation into which you can throw yourself wholeheartedly.”

Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich

Think and Grow Rich (1938) p. 87

“Sex energy is the most powerful of all the stimuli which move people into action. Because it is the most powerful of the emotions, it must be controlled, through transmutation, and converted into other channels.”

Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich

Think and Grow Rich (1938)

“Success comes through the application of power, and power is attained through the cooperative efforts of other people. A negative personality will not induce cooperation.”

Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich

Think and Grow Rich (1938) p. 87

“Most of us are good "starters" but poor "finishers" of everything we begin. Moreover, people are prone to give up at the first signs of defeat. There is no substitute for persistence. Failure cannot cope with Persistance.”

Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich

Think and Grow Rich (1938) p. 86

“Most of us go through life as failures, because we are waiting for the "time to be right" to start doing something worthwhile. The time will never be "just right."”

Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich

Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
Think and Grow Rich (1938)

“Procrastination is one of the most common causes of failure.... Procrastination stands within the shadow of every human being, waiting his opportunity to spoil one's chances of success.”

Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich

Think and Grow Rich (1938)

“Temporary defeat should mean only one thing, the certain knowledge that there is something wrong with your plan. Millions of men go through life in misery and poverty, because they lack a sound plan through which to accumulate a fortune.”

Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich

Think and Grow Rich (1938) p. 73

“This earth, every one of the billions of individual cells of your body, and every atom of matter, began as an intangible form of energy.”

Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich

Think and Grow Rich (1938) p. 64

“The earth on which you live, you, yourself, and every other material thing are the result of evolutionary change, through which microscopic bits of matter have been organized and arranged in an orderly fashion.”

Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich

Think and Grow Rich (1938) p. 63

“The time will soon come when a man may breakfast in New York, and lunch in San Francisco.”

Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich

Source: Think and Grow Rich (1938) p. 62

“We are what we are, because of the vibrations of thought which we pick up and register, through the stimuli of our daily environment.
Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to order.”

Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich

Source: Think and Grow Rich (1938) p. 54

“Poverty needs no plan. It needs no one to aid it, because it is bold and ruthless.”

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Power of the Master Mind
Source: Think & Grow Rich, January 1963, p. 153.

“Money is shy and elusive. It must be wooed and won by methods not unlike those used by a determined lover, in pursuit of the girl of his choice.”

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Power of the Master Mind
Source: Think & Grow Rich, January 1963, p. 152.

“Men take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony.”

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Power of the Master Mind
Source: Think & Grow Rich, January 1963, p. 150.

“The "Master Mind" may be defined as: "Coordination of knowledge and effort, in a spirit of harmony, between two or more people, for the attainment of a definite purpose."”

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Power of the Master Mind
Source: Think & Grow Rich, January 1963, p. 148.