Napoleon Hill Quotes

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

Once you articulate an agenda, you have to follow it.

Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.

I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Creation's gold mine is in you. The key is deliberate intention. Whatever your dream may be at this moment, identify it. If you cannot define your desire, it can never become a reality.

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

The thing that I learned early on is you really need to set goals in your life, both short-term and long-term, just like you do in business. Having that long-term goal will enable you to have a plan on how to achieve it.

I truly believe that if you put your goals in writing, speak them out loud and work for them, they will happen.

Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms, carry out your plan.

Vision without execution is hallucination.

I am a firm believe in the power of dreams, because the world is basically one giant realization of people's collective dreams come true. We need to dream to aspire to do something that keeps us striving. But those dreams and ideas and wants mean nothing without execution, which doesn't usually happen without a plan.

Make it absolutely clear to yourself what you want from other people. That is really half the secret for drawing your desire to you in the shortest possible time and with the least amount of effort.

At SBI, we say that if you need a project to be done, you need to be determined that it needs to be done, put a deadline, and it will get done.

There are a lot of things I suck at. I'm not organized. I have to have partners and people around me who dot my i's and cross my t's. I'm sloppy. I'm a ready-fire-aim guy. I need to have people around me who aren't.

Without execution, 'vision' is just another word for hallucination.

I believe in the balance between dreaming and building.

You can magically alter your life if you believe hard enough and then take actual physical action in the world outside your brain to make it happen.

The difference between a dream and a goal is a deadline.

It's just crazy to have a dream - have a plan - and then it all just kind of comes true. To me, that proves that you have to have a vision first.

There are many people who have big plans but their big plans never come true. The reason is, too many people have big plans but fail to keep their small agreements.

You must see your goals clearly and specifically before you can set out for them. Hold them in your mind until they become second nature.

It's hard for me to come up with a plan and hold my players accountable until I self-evaluate and hold myself accountable.