Napoleon Hill Quotes

You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want using whatever life gives you along the way.

If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're trying to solve.

When people think it's successful, I'm grateful. When they don't - OK, I'll try again.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

I think the most important trait for an entrepreneur is persistence. When you try to do something new and difficult, you are more likely to fail than to succeed.

You do the best you can with what's thrown at you, then you try again.

It would seem that the ant works its way tentatively, and, observing where it fails, tries another place and succeeds.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

It's been the structure of my life: you scheme and plan and try and fail and try again and accumulate and lose and win back, and then you tell.

Dont give up. Obstacles can be overcome through strategy and learning.

Mr. Edison worked endlessly on a problem, using the method of elimination. If a person asked him if he were discouraged because so many attempts proved unavailing, he would say, "No, I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.".

The most successful people in American life are those that have had horrific failures and have come back, done it again and again until they got it right, whether it's Steve Jobs or Bill Gates or Warren Buffet.

We should never change our minds about where we are going, but always be curious about different ways to get there.

It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist.

Americans always do the right thing, once they have exhausted all other possibilities.

I haven't gotten stuck with something because I just keep going, and I keep doing different things.

My mother was a continual source of wisdom and great advice...she taught me that there is always a way around a problem-you've just got to find it. Keep trying doors; one will eventually open. She also taught me to accept failure as part and parcel of life. It's not the opposite of success; it's an integral part of success. I talk a lot about learning to become fearless in your approach to life. But fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's all about getting up one more time than you fall down.

Make it work

Life is an obstacle course. You succeed at one thing and then you move on to the next. When an obstacle is tough, you try harder. When an obstacle is insurmountable, you change course. But you never sit down and refuse to finish.

Thomas Edison dreamed of a lamp that could be operated by electricity, began where he stood to put his dream into action, and despite more than ten thousand failures, he stood by that dream until he made it a physical reality. Practical dreamers do not quit.

The thing about inventing is you have to be both stubborn and flexible. The hard part is figuring out when to be which.

There's a key for every door, and if you can't find it, you can make one. That's always an option.

If failure is not an option, neither is success. Innovation is just repeated failure till you come up with something that works.