Law of Success

Most so called FAILURES are only temporary defeats

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

Success in life depends upon happiness, and happiness is found in no other way than through SERVICE that is rendered in a spirit of love." Napoleon Hill

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 —NAPOLEON HILL

The object of your definite chief aim should become your "hobby." You should ride this "hobby" continuously; you should sleep with it, eat with it, play with it, work with it, live with it and THINK with it.

TO do much clear thinking a man must arrange for regular periods of solitude when he can concentrate and indulge his imagination without distraction. -Thomas A. Edison.

Before you can achieve success in the higher and broader sense you must gain such thorough control over yourself that you will be a person of poise.

Power is organized effort, as has already been stated! Success is based upon power!

First: I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my definite purpose, therefore I demand of myself persistent, aggressive and continuous action toward its attainment.

Love is essential for happiness, but the person who loves so deeply that his or her happiness is placed entirely in the hands of another, resembles the little lamb who crept into the den of the nice, gentle little wolf and begged to be permitted to lie down and go to sleep, or the canary

You have been endowed with the power to use the most highly organized form of energy known to man, that of thought.

Those who work for money alone, and who receive for their pay nothing but money, are always underpaid, no matter how much they receive. Money is necessary, but the big prizes of life cannot be measured in dollars and cents. No

The cells of all vegetation have a very high order of intelligence. The cells of all animal life likewise have a very high order of intelligence.

five per cent who were succeeding had formed the habit of systematic saving of money,

Writing has become a habit with you.

ASK any wise man what he most desires and he will, more than likely, say "more wisdom.

And men are subject, also, to this same Law of Attraction. Go into any cheap boarding house district in any city and there you will find people of the same general trend of mind associated together. On the other hand, go into any prosperous community and there you will find people of the same general tendencies associated together. Men who are successful always seek the company of others who are successful, while men who are on the ragged side of life always seek the company of those who are in similar circumstances. “Misery loves company.

Hard labor and good intentions are not sufficient to carry a man through to success, for how may a man be sure that he has attained success unless he has established in his mind some definite object that he wishes?

Far from being a disadvantage, struggle is a decided advantage, because it develops those qualities which would forever lie dormant without it.

Imagination is a faculty of the mind which can be cultivated, developed, extended and broadened by use.

Success is the development of the power with which to get whatever one wants in life without interfering with the rights of others.

Bravery is physical; courage is mental and moral.

or runs a more accommodating bank.

You probably know that you are not the only man who has had to sacrifice immediate monetary remuneration for the sake of gathering knowledge, for in truth your experience has been that of every philosopher from the time of Socrates down to the present.

It is the personalities back of a business which determine the measure of success the business will enjoy. Modify those personalities so they are more pleasing and more attractive to the patrons of the business and the business will thrive. In any of the great cities of the United States one may purchase merchandise of similar nature and price in scores of stores, yet you will find there is always one outstanding store which does more business than any of the others, and the reason for this is that back of that store is a man, or men, who has attended to the personalities of those who come in contact with the public. 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 in contact than they are by the merchandise. Life

Why? Personalities! Ninety-nine people out of every hundred who purchase life insurance policies do not know what is in their policies and, what seems more startling, do not seem to care. What they really purchase is the pleasing personality of some man or woman who knows the value of cultivating such a personality. Your

Power grows out of ORGANIZED KNOWLEDGE, but, mind you, it “grows out of it” through application and use!

Success comes only when you act on what you know and believe. What your mind can conceive and believe, you can achieve!