Quotes from Napoleon Hill

No one could ride a horse if the horse discovered its real strength. The same thing is true for people.

general or specialized knowledge. An educated man

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 obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.

When the armies of the prophet entered Jerusalem not a single person was killed because of his faith. When the crusaders entered the city, centuries later, not a Moslem man, woman, or child was spared.

Nothing, however, can be successfully substituted for pleasing conduct.

The capitalists are the brains of civilization, because they supply the entire fabric of which all education, enlightenment and human progress consists.

Bravery is physical; courage is mental and moral.

his mistake in having stopped only three feet from gold, "but," he said, "that experience was a blessing in disguise. It taught me to keep on keeping on, no matter how hard the going may be, a lesson I needed to learn before I could succeed in anything.

It is the belief of many that every completed thought starts an unending vibration with which the one who releases it will have to contend at a later time; that man, himself, is but the physical reflection of thought that was put into motion by infinite intelligence.

A negative personality will not induce cooperation.

The habit of planting in the mind a definite aim, objective, or purpose, and visualizing that objective until ways and means for its realization have been created.

Personal associations are important, because everyone acquires something of the philosophy, the personality, and the mental