Napoleon Hill Successful Quotations

The successful leader must plan his work and work his plan.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Successful men and women become successful because they acquire the habit of thinking in terms of success. Get the success habit in the small circumstances you control, and soon you'll be controlling the bigger ones.

Successful people are decisive people. When opportunities come their way, they evaluate them carefully, make a decision, and take appropriate action. They know that indecision wastes time that could be spent on more productive tasks.

The ability to negotiate with other people without friction and argument is the outstanding quality of all successful people.

If you have been wise and successful I congratulate you. Unless you are unable to forget how successful you have been, then I pity you.

Successful people move on their own initiative but they know where they are going before they start.

Every successful person finds that great success lies just beyond the point when they're convinced their idea is not going to work.

We have already discovered the fact that fear is the chief reason for poverty and failure and misery that takes on a thousand different forms. We have already discovered the fact that the man who masters fear may march on to successful achievement in practically any undertaking, despite all efforts to defeat him.

The successful leader must be willing to assume responsibility for the mistakes and the shortcomings of his followers.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you; until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire; until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Many successful people have found opportunities in failure and adversity that they could not recognize in more favorable circumstances.

One should use great care to select an employer who will be an inspiration, and who is, himself, intelligent and successful

Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.

I began to make inquiries of the hundreds of successful men who collaborated with me in the organization of the science of success, and discovered that each of them had received guidance from unknown sources, although many of them were reluctant to admit this discovery.

It is always better to imitate a successful man than to envy him.

To become successful you must be a person of action. Merely to "know" is not sufficient. It is necessary both to know and do.