When you begin to think and grow rich, you will observe that riches begin with a state of mind, with definiteness of purpose, with little or no hard work. You, and every other person, ought to be interested in knowing how to acquire that state of mind which will attract riches… Observe very closely, as soon as you master the principles of this philosophy, and begin to follow the instructions for applying those principles, your financial status will begin to improve, and everything you touch will begin to transmute itself into an asset for your benefit. Impossible? Not at all!
—Napoleon Hill
Fortunate is the person who has developed the self-control to steer a straight course toward his objective in life, without being swayed from his purpose by either commendation or condemnation.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Goals, Aspirations
Faith is the head chemist of the mind.
—Napoleon Hill
Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Education, Society
Every negative event contains within it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
—Napoleon Hill
Love is, without question, life’s greatest experience.
—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
Topics: Success & Failure, Perseverance, Failure
Those who have cultivated the habit of persistence seem to enjoy insurance against failure… The hidden Guide lets no one enjoy great achievement without passing the persistence test. Those who can’t take it simply do not make the grade.
—Napoleon Hill
The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Imagination
The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Persistence
In your search for the secret of the method, do not look for a miracle, because you will not find it. You will find only the eternal laws of nature. These laws are available to every person who has the faith and the courage to use them.
—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
Topics: Imagination, Ideas
One thing we all know, if one does not possess persistence, one does not achieve noteworthy success in any calling.
—Napoleon Hill
Those who reach decisions promptly and definitely, know what they want, and generally get it.
—Napoleon Hill
We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before “arriving”.
—Napoleon Hill
Nature yields her most profound secrets to the person who is determined to uncover them.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Nature
Anybody can wish for riches, and most people do, but only a few know that a definite plan, plus a burning desire for wealth, are the only dependable means of accumulating wealth.
—Napoleon Hill
Every human being who reaches the age of understanding of the purpose of money wishes for it. Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsessions, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Failure, Persistence, Rich
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Persistence, Perseverance
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
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Responsibility
Every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
—Napoleon Hill
There is a difference between wishing for a thing and being ready to receive it. No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be belief, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief. Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage and belief.
—Napoleon Hill
No follower of this philosophy can reasonably expect to accumulate a fortune without experiencing “temporary defeat”.
—Napoleon Hill
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
—Napoleon Hill
You can be anything you want to be, if you only believe with sufficient conviction and act in accordance with your faith; for whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Believe, Belief, Achievement, Faith, Dance
Capability means imagination…
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Imagination
Greatness comes to those who develop a burning desire to achieve high goals.
—Napoleon Hill
There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition.
—Napoleon Hill
Somewhere in your make-up there lies sleeping, the seed of achievement which, if aroused and put into action, would carry you to heights, such as you may never have hoped to attain.
—Napoleon Hill
The power of thought is the ONLY thing over which any human being has complete and unquestionable control. A fact so astounding that it connotes a close relationship between the mind of Man and the source of all power, Infinite Intelligence.
—Napoleon Hill
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Peace
The day of the “go-getter” has passed. He has been supplanted by the “go-giver”.
—Napoleon Hill
Anything the mind can conceive, and truly believe, it can achieve.
—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
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Helping
Do not wait; the time will never be “just right.” 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.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: Procrastination, Time Management, Action
There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.
—Napoleon Hill
Topics: The Mind
Faith is the “eternal elixir” which gives life, power, and action to the impulse of thought!
—Napoleon Hill
If the mind can conceive it, you can achieve it.
—Napoleon Hill
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
Wallace Wattles American New Thought Author
Louise Hay American Author
Dale Carnegie American Self-Help Author
Zig Ziglar American Author
Peter McWilliams American Author
Tony Robbins American Self-Help Author
Caroline Kennedy American Attorney, Diplomat
George Samuel Clason American Businessperson
Jean Houston American New Thought Author
William Arthur Ward American Author