"Every mind needs friendly contact with other minds, for food of expansion and growth."
Napoleon Hill
Author, Motivational Speaker
Napoleon Hill was an American self-help author known for his influential book 'Think and Grow Rich,' which focuses on the principles of success and personal achievement.
- Born
- October 26, 1883
- Died
- November 8, 1970
- Quotes
- 711
- Rank
- #319
Quote collection
Napoleon Hill quotes (page 31 of 36)
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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."
"The subconscious mind is more susceptible to influence by impulses of thought mixed with 'feeling' or emotion, than by those originating solely in the reasoning portion of the mind."
"Desire is the factor that determines what your definite purpose in life shall be."
"Your deliberate Chief Aim in life should be selected with deliberate care"
"The super-salesman neither permits his subconscious mind to "broadcast" negative thoughts nor give expression to them through words, for the reason that he understands that "like attracts like" and negative suggestions attract negative action and negative decisions from prospective buyers."
"It is well worth remembering that the customer is the most important factor in any business. If you don't think so, try getting along without him for a while."
"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."
"Quick riches are more dangerous than poverty."
"Most real failures are due to limitations which men set up in their own minds."
"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."
"Today's worries may become tomorrow's priceless experiences."
"The average person would have quit at the first failure. That’s why there have been many average men and only one Edison."
"The space that every man occupies in the world is measured by the faith he expresses in connection with his aims and purposes."
"The Creator gave us the complete, unchallengable right of prerogative over the one thing, and only thing we own, our mind."
"Success is the development of the power with which to get whatever one wants in life without interfering with the rights of others."
"I pray daily, not for more riches, but for more wisdom with which to recognize, embrace and enjoy what I already possess."
"It takes more than a college degree to make one a person of education. Any person who is educated is one who has learned to get whatever he wants in life without violating the rights of others."
"Someday America will have its very own commercial-free TV and radio station devoted to only one thing: to teach people, in their homes, all the essentials of personal achievement."
"Ideas are intangible forces, but they have more power than the physical brains that give birth to them. They have the power to live on, after the brain that creates them has returned to dust."