Napoleon Hill Quotes

If you ask anyone, what is morality based on? These are the two factors that always come out: One is reciprocity, … a sense of fairness, and the other one is empathy and compassion.

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

The only people who steal are thieves, and that's a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if you will... return the benefit and reciprocate.

The old idea of a good bargain was a transaction in which one man got the better of another. The new idea of a good contract is a transaction which is good for both parties to it..

That's at the root of the human interaction: fair trade.

What goes around comes around in business, and it's better to help people out rather than bill them every time you speak to them.

Everyone's values are defined by what they will tolerate when it is done to others.

Right now, the biggest shared value that I can think of is that you should treat others the way you want to be treated, and just have some good sense about what matters to you.

Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.

Charity is important; so is being fair and honest and honorable in your business - but you cannot mix the two.

I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.

We are all born with an innate understanding of interpersonal equity - the idea that if you lend me your rake today, I'll respond in kind when you come to borrow my shovel tomorrow. Or nearly all of us are born with that. Psychopaths aren't.

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.

The time is always right to do what is right.

I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.

I believe in the Golden Rule. I believe in practicing it.

Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.

The universal basis of co-operation is the proportioning of benefits received to services rendered.

'Do other men, for they would do you.' That's the true business precept.

If you treat people right they will treat you right — ninety percent of the time.

Be loyal to those who are loyal to you. And respect everyone, even your enemies and competition.

If you've developed an ideology that what's good for you personally also happens to be good for everyone else, that's quite wonderful because there's no moral tension.

One of the things with Canada is we're of a modest enough size that we never feel that the ideal outcome of any given deal is, we win and you lose.

I want to make money but not if it involves exploitation.