Napoleon Hill
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The key to success is to use "proven success formulas"
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The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man
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The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does
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Don't wait. The time will never be just right
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Riches cannot always be measured in money
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There is no such thing as "something for nothing"
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an IDEA
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One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat
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More gold has been mined from the brains of men than has ever been taken from the earth
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Riches begin with a state of mind with definiteness of purpose, with little or no hard work
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One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word "impossible". He knows all the rules which will not work. He knows all the things which cannot be done
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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn all his ships and cuts all sources of retreat. Only by so doing can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as burning desire to win, essential to success
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If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance
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Dreams are the seedlings of reality
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All who succeed in life get off to a bad start, and pass through many heart breaking struggles before they "arrive". The turning point in the lives of those who succeed usually comes at the moment of some crisis, through which they are introduced to their "otherselves"
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No one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality
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There is a difference between wishing for a thing and being ready to receive it
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All achievement, no matter what maybe its nature, or its purpose, must begin with an intense, burning desire for something definite
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Perfection will come through practice. It cannot come by merely reading instructions
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Faith is the starting point of all accumulation of riches
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Where failure is experienced, it is the individual, not the methodwhich has failed. If you try and fail, make another effort, and still another until you succeed
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Where there is a will, there is a way
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There is no standard price on ideas. The creator of ideas makes his own price, and, if he is smart, gets it quotes
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Success requires no explanaions. Failure permits no alibis
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Money, of itself, is nothing but inert matter. It cannot move, think or talk, but it can "hear" when a man who desires it, calls it to come!
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Men are paid not merely for what they know, but more particularly for what they do with that which they know.
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You may see at one and the same time both: your best friend and your greatest enemy, by stepping in front of a mirror.
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You may see at one and the same time both: your best friend and your greatest enemy, by stepping in front of a mirror.
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Take the punishment of defeat as an urge to greater effort
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Riches do not respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires through constant persistence
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Anybody can wish for riches and most people do, but only a few know that a definite plan, plus a burning desire for wealth, are the only dependable means of accumulating wealth
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A man's wife may either make him or break him. The "making" and "breaking" is the result of the wife's understanding, or lack of understanding, of the emotions of love, sex, and romance
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One's nearest relatives are the worst offenders
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It was a great surprise to me when I discovered that most of the ugliness I saw in others was but a reflection of my own nature
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No man has a chance to enjoy permanent success until he begins to look in a mirror for the real cause of all his mistakes
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One of the great secrets in life is never attempt to violate natural laws and win
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With every problem or difficulty there lies the seed of an equal or greater advantage or benefit
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There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to achieve it
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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness, which comes only to the man who has found the work he likes best
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If you cannot do great things… Do small things in a great way
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Faith is the starting point of all accumulation of riches
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Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve
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Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle
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Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything
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