Napoleon Hill Quotes

How much you accumulate is a byproduct of what you enjoy doing in life. And I enjoy buying companies.

There's always more money to be made.

Earning money has a way of increasing financial intelligence quickly.

Most people wish for riches, but few people provide the definite plan and burning desire which pave the road to wealth.

Intelligent planning is essential for success in any undertaking designed to accumulate riches.

I'm a big fan of money. I like it, I use it, I have a little. I keep it in a jar on top of my refrigerator. I'd like to put more in that jar. That's where you come in.

I wish it grew on trees, but it takes hard work to make money.

Anybody can wish for riches, and most people do, but only a few know that a definite plan, plus a burning desire for wealth, are the only dependable means of accumulating wealth

Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when, and if, it is organized into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite end.

the art of becoming 'rich', in the common sense, is not absolutely nor finally the art of accumulating much money for ourselves, but also of contriving that our neighbour shall have less. In accurate terms, it is 'the art of establishing the maximum inequality in your own favour'.

Always invest for the long term.

I'm big into stocks. I've invested in a lot of stocks. One day I was talking to my accountant, and he was like, "Yo, what if I could turn a million dollars into $20 million?"

The faster you want to get rich, the more accurate with numbers you must be.

The foundation stone of wealth accumulation is defense, and this defense should be anchored by budgeting and planning.

In the long run, it's not just how much money you make that will determine your future prosperity. It's how much of that money you put to work by saving it and investing it.

You’d get very rich if you thought of yourself as having a card with only twenty punches in a lifetime, and every financial decision used up one punch. You’d resist the temptation to dabble. You’d make more good decisions and you’d make more big decisions.

After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.

There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.

If someone gives you $1,000,000 you'd better become a millionaire so you can keep the money. Success doesn't want to hang around incompetent people.

Wealth is only a benefit of the game of money. If you win, the money will be there.

Money is the seed of money.

The secret of success lies never in the amount of money, but in the relation of income to outgo.

Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the up market.

Wealth is more often the result of a lifestyle of hard work, perseverance, planning, and, most of all, self-discipline.

Wealth usually comes from doing what other people find insufferably boring.