Napoleon Hill Ideas Quotations

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.

IDEAS CAN BE TRANSMUTED INTO CASH THROUGH THE POWER OF DEFINITE PURPOSE, PLUS DEFINITE PLANS.

Ideas are intangible forces, but they have more power than the physical brains that give birth to them. They have the power to live on, after the brain that creates them has returned to dust.

Ideas... they have the power

Most ideas are stillborn and need the breath of life injected into them through definite plans of immediate action. The time to nurse an idea is at the time of its birth. Every minute it lives gives it a better chance of surviving.

Every person should make it his business to gather new ideas from sources other than the environment in which he daily lives and works. The mind becomes withered, stagnant, narrow and closed unless it searches for new ideas.

Truly, there is something to the idea that hero-worship is helpful, provided one worships a winner.

The story of practically every great fortune starts with the day when a creator of ideas and a seller of ideas got together and worked in harmony.

We do not have to wait for future discoveries in connection with the powers of the human mind for evidence that the mind is the greatest force known to mankind. We know, now, that any idea, aim or purpose that is fixed in the mind and held there with a will to achieve or attain its physical or material equivalent, puts into motion powers that cannot be conquered.

First you give life and action and guidance to ideas, then they take on power of their own and sweep aside all opposition.

Every successful person finds that great success lies just beyond the point when they're convinced their idea is not going to work.

The mind becomes withered, stagnant, narrow and closed unless it searches for new ideas.

The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planning and action stage.

One sound idea is all that you need to achieve success.

Charles Chaplin makes a million dollars a year out of a funny, shuffling walk and a pair of baggy trousers, because he does "something different." Take the hint and "individualize" yourself with some distinctive idea.

No form of human exchange is more profitable than the exchange of ideas. If I give you a thought in return for one of your thoughts, each of us will have gained a 100 percent dividend.