Napoleon Hill Quotes

Browse 79 quotes from Napoleon Hill, featuring insights on success, personal growth, leadership, mindset, and achievement.
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Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Action is the real measure of intelligence.
Success comes on when you act on what you know and believe.
It is always your next move.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.
Render more service than that for which you are paid and you will soon be paid for more than you render.
Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.
Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
Look for the seed of an equivalent benefit in every failure.
What most people purchase is the pleasing personality of some man or woman who knows the value of cultivating such a personality.
People buy personalities as much as merchandise, and it is a question if they are not influenced more by the personalities with which they come into contact than they are by the merchandise.
One of the greatest problems of life is learning the art of harmonious negotiation with others.
Success in this world is always a matter of individual effort, yet you can only succeed with the cooperation of others.
A mastermind is a mind developed through the harmonious cooperation of two or more people who ally themselves for the purpose of accomplishing any given task.
Power is organized effort.
No two minds ever come together without thereby creating a third, invisible, intangible force which may be likened to a third mind.
Before you can get the cooperation of other people, you must first show a willingness to cooperate with them.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
You give before you get.
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.
Riches begin in the form of thought.
Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
No man can rise to fame and fortune without carrying others along with him. It simply cannot be done.
It is the personalities behind a business which determine the measure of success the business will enjoy.
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