Napoleon Hill Quotes

Success comes from persistently improving and inventing, not from persistently promoting what’s not working.

There is a better way to do it - Find it!

I just find things that work and embellish them.

Ever since we invented fire and the wheel, we've been demonstrating both our ability and our inherent desire to fix things that we don't like about ourselves and our environment.

I try stuff. I synthesize what's of value with some of the other things I have at my disposal.

For me, I'd rather be the inventive one, and if something doesn't work, I'll go back to the workshop, put it on the bench, and pound on it for awhile.

Invention is the mother of necessity.

The world's been pretty good at coming up with new ways of doing things.

Any window of opportunity is important. If your hands are tied, you should swim with your legs. If your legs are tied, you should try to hold on to the edge of the boat with your teeth. We have to use every option.

If you can last long enough, in success, you have to get really creative and come up with new stuff.

You have to be able to improvise and respond to what's going on around you. Then you might get a good piece of work done.

If there's something you want to build, but the tech isn't there yet, just find the closest possible way to make it happen.

One of the most important things a person can learn to do is to make something out of whatever he or she happens to have at the moment.

When there's no experimenting there's no progress. Stop experimenting and you go backward. If anything goes wrong, experiment until you get to the very bottom of the trouble.

That's just my disposition - to create a situation where you have to come up with something.

You can't rest on your laurels. You have to continue to innovate; you have to continue to be different.

I wouldn't say I'm a very original thinker, but if I have a good experience with something, I'll want to take it further or adapt it in some way.

I did not know how to paint a mural. I did not know how to prepare the surface. There was nobody from the Renaissance around who could advise me, and I did the best I could.

In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

Creativity has always depended on openness and flexibility, so let us hope for more of both in the future.

We can always find creative ways to do things.

Without deviation progress is not possible.

Part of being innovative in government is sometimes not trying to plot out the last chapter of the book, but to be open and see what comes back.

We must improvise, and we must experiment, and we must do things that might go wrong, and everything we bring - the people and the equipment - must serve us in that goal.