Napoleon Hill

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small amount of Are makes a small amount of heat.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of per sistence in creating new plans to take the place of those that fail.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds.

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

Fortunately, problems are an everyday part of our life. Consider this: If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed.

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.

Focus is essential to success, and successful people are people who can focus.

I was relentless, even in the face of total lack of encouragement, because much more often than you’d think, sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure.

It was a feeling I had. People were taught how to think, we’re taught how to feel. We don’t know how to think for ourselves, [and] we don’t know how to feel for ourselves. People say ‘Feel free,’ but they don’t really want us to feel free. I felt a freedom, first of all, doing something that everybody tells you not to do.

The greatest source of happiness is the ability to be grateful at all times.

It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.

Find the game where you can win, and then commit your life to playing it; and play to win.

Stay Strong.

I believe in the Golden Rule. The Man with the Gold, Rules.

Do more than you are being paid to do, and you’ll eventually be paid more for what you do.

You don’t have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.