Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

— Napoleon Hill

Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.

— Napoleon Hill

Building alibis is a deeply rooted habit.

— Napoleon Hill

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

— Napoleon Hill

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire, and begin at once, whether you’re ready or not, to put it into action.

— Napoleon Hill

Definiteness of decision always requires courage, sometimes very great courage. The fifty-six men who signed the Declaration of Independence staked their lives on the decision to affix their signatures to that document.

— Napoleon Hill

Desire is the starting point of all achievement.

— Napoleon Hill

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

— Napoleon Hill

Disappointment over love affairs generally has the effect of driving men to drink, and women to ruin; and this, because most people never learn the art of transmuting their strongest emotions into dreams of a constructive nature.

— Napoleon Hill

Do not wait: the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.

— Napoleon Hill