It’s amazing how things seem to fall in place once we concentrate, because as we know, it all begins in the thought process. Nothing was done without beginning in thought. Pictures remind us of what we want or want to accomplish in life, and it becomes a part of our subconscious...
TRUE WEALTH CONSISTS of ideas, not money. Money is only the material medium that is exchanged for ideas. Paper money in itself—yen, euros, or another currency—is worth nothing; it is the ideas behind it that give it value...
Discipline, I think, starts with what you’re driven by. One time I remember an executive saying he was having trouble with his weight, so he took up running. He said he hated it, but he disciplined himself. One time he was running in the rain, and all of a sudden it hit him how happy he was to be out there...
Walter Chrysler, the founder of Chrysler Corporation, took the wages he had saved and bought a new car. Instead of driving it, he took the car apart in order to improve it. This is passion, and it’s no wonder that Chrysler was able to quote Ralph Waldo Emerson in saying...
It is possible to face a challenge and go on. As Mr. Stone told us, “You can’t reason away worry.” You can substitute something for it so that it becomes a passion, something that will occupy your time and your mind to get away from what’s bothering you. Fear is the biggest deterrent to success—fear of the unknown, even if it’s just a simple fear of traveling. It’s not meant to be a stumbling block, it was meant to be a stepping-stone, but many people simply don’t want to face it, because they look for a negative outcome rather than a positive one...
A new bank opened up in Wise County, Virginia, which is an hour or so away from where I was living. A man by the name of James A. Brown called me. He started a bank when he was twenty-nine...
One thing that stands out about Hill is that although many people have written about success, he not only wrote about it but gave you the how. Whether he’s talking about forming a winning personality or applied faith or developing a burning desire, he tells you over and over how to acquire these things, step by step. Even today, I don’t think anybody does it better than he did...
People sometimes ask me if these principles still apply in the age of current technology. As I see it, certain principles never change. Think of gravity. Say you visit your grandpa on a weekend, and he’s got a barn that’s seventy-five feet high. You’re up in the loft, and you decide to jump off. Gravity is going to cause you to hit the ground. It doesn’t matter if you did this last summer or today or five years from now. It’s the same thing. You get the same results...
Commissioned by Andrew Carnegie in 1908 to research and document the first study of what makes people successful, Napoleon Hill published the sixteen-lesson, eight-volume Law of Success course in 1928. Many more Napoleon Hill books followed, including the most famous and bestselling Think and Grow Rich in 1937...