Napoleon Hill Quotes

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

I always wanted to be wealthy. I did.

I think that in the earlier days, when I was a 'wantrepreneur,' I was really doing things because I thought what I wanted was to be rich.

There are dreamers and there are planners; the planners make their dreams come true.

Dreamers dream dreams and rich people create plans and build bridges to their dreams.

No matter what your dream is, you can make that dream a reality, ... If you dream about being a millionaire, you can be that. All you have to do is study and be smart.

No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.

I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.

I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.

I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.

I made my first million pounds at the age of 26. As a little girl, I said I would retire when I had made my first million. The reality was different. When I did make it, I wanted to make another million, and another, and another after that.

Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

I'm not the type to pat myself on the back and all that, but somebody has to be lucky, right? When I got to Dallas, I was struggling - sleeping on the floor with six guys in a three-bedroom apartment. I used to drive around, look at the big houses, and imagine what it would be like to live there and use that as motivation.

Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.

Everyone who is successful must have dreamed of something.

I want people that made a fortune.

To realize a dream, you must have a dream to realize.

Wishing and dreaming are the beginning of all human endeavor.

Do you want to be rich or not? Let's get focused on that, buddy

Don't chase the paper, chase the dream.

To make a great dream come true, you must first have a great dream.

When you get a little older, you think, I'd like to make a little money and stick it away or buy a place - or win the world championship.

That's the American way. If little kids don't aspire to make money like I did, what the hell good is this country?

Not much happens without a dream. And for something great to happen, there must be a great dream. Behind every great achievement is a dreamer of great dreams. Much more than a dreamer is required to bring it to reality; but the dream must be there first.

I'm a big believer in dreaming. If you don't dream it, you can't become it.