Napoleon Hill
Outwitting the Devl
"Failure is a man-made circumstance. It is never real until it has been accepted by man as permanent… failure is a state of mind."
Resilience
"First, you can develop resilience. Anyone can do it. No one can do it for you. You and you alone have to do the work. Second, you can develop resilience. It’s possible to build virtues. It’s possible to change your character. It’s possible, therefore, to change the direction of your life. Third, you can develop resilience. Resilience cannot be purchased or given to you; you have to do the hard work of building excellence in your life."
Start With Why
"Two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or you can inspire it."
"It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested. But when it is wasted in heedless luxury and spent on no good activity, we are forced at last by death’s final constraint to realize that it has passed away before we knew it was passing. So it is: we are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not ill-supplied but wasteful of it… Life is long if you know how to use it."
"Leaders of great organizations do not see people as a commodity to be managed to help grow the money. Leaders of great organizations see the money is the commodity to be managed to help grow the people."
"You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, no results, and no reward."
"Neglect enough todays, and you'll experience the 'someday' you wanted to avoid!"
“If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control - myself.”
“Once people are trapped in the lifelong process of billpaying, they become like those little hamsters running around in those little metal wheels. Their little furry legs are spinning furiously, the wheel is turning furiusly, but come tomorrow morning, they’ll still be in the same cage: great job”
"Never take the position that things just happen to you; rather, they happen because of something you did or did not do."
“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
"Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing."
“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.”
“Champions don’t do extraordinary things. They do ordinary things, but they do them without thinking, too fast for the other team to react. They follow the habits they’ve learned."
"But over the last decade, neuroscientists have discovered that, like an eager student, the brain is remarkably responsive to experience. Ask your brain to do math every day, and it gets better at math. Ask your brain to worry, and it gets better at worrying. Ask your brain to concentrate, and it gets better at concentrating. Not only does your brain find these things easier, but it actually remodels itself based on what you ask it to do."
"Actually, your past successes are your biggest obstacle: every battle, every war, is different, and you cannot assume that what worked before will work today."
The Compound Effect:
Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success
"It's not the big things that add up in the end; it's the hundreds, thousands, or millions of little things that separate the ordinary from the extraordinary."
The War Of Art:
Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
“We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are. More than our parents/children/teachers think we are. We fear that we actually possess the talent that our still, small voice tells us. That we actually have the guts, the perseverance, the capacity. We fear that we truly can steer our ship, plant our flag, reach our Promised Land. We fear this because, if it’s true, then we become estranged from all we know. We pass through a membrane. We become monsters and monstrous.”
“Implementing Extreme Ownership requires checking your ego and operating with a high degree of humility. Admitting mistakes, taking ownership, and developing a plan to overcome challenges are integral to any successful team.”