Napoleon Hill
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Napoleon Hill was an American
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 author who was one of the earliest producers of the modern genre of personal-success literature. He is widely considered to be one of the great writers on success. His most famous work, Think and Grow Rich
Think and Grow Rich
Think and Grow Rich is a motivational personal development and self-help book written by Napoleon Hill and inspired by a suggestion from Scottish-American businessman Andrew Carnegie...

(1937), is one of the best-selling books of all time (at the time of Hill's death in 1970, Think and Grow Rich had sold 20 million copies). Hill's works examined the power of personal beliefs, and the role they play in personal success.
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Quotations

Every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

A maxim of Hill's, specifically cited as such, in Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude (1960), co-authored with W. Clement Stone, Ch. 14, p. 222.

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

As quoted in Diamond Power : Gems of Wisdom from America's Greatest Marketer (2003) by Barry Farber, p. 53

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

As quoted in Diamond Power : Gems of Wisdom from America's Greatest Marketer (2003) by Barry Farber, p. 60

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

p.18

Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty.

p. 38

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

p. 54

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.

p. 54

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.

p. 54

 
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