The ability to control our thoughts and emotions, self-discipline is the only thing in life over which you have complete, unchallenged, and unchallengable control. Direct your thoughts, control your emotions and ordain your destiny.

Self Discipline 

The accurate thinker recognizes all the facts about life, both good and bad, and assumes the responsibility of separating and organizing the two, choosing those which serve his needs and rejecting all others. You are what you think

Accurate Thinking 

Imagination is your mind's exercise, challenge and adventure. It uses old ideas and established facts to reassemble them into new combinations and to put them to new uses. Imagination is the workshop of the soul.

Imagination 

The key that coordinates all other principles and sets all ideas into motion, sound health provides the "flavor" to the good things in life. Good health, a sense of well-being and a purpose for living make any day beautiful.

Sound Physical Health

A contagious state of mind that not only helps you gain the cooperation of others but, more importantly, inspires you to draw upon and use the power of your imagination. Real enthusiasm comes from within, and is faith in action.

Enthusiasm 

A state of mind through which your aims, desires, plans, and purposes are translated into their physical or financial equivalent. You can do it if you believe you can!

Applied Faith

A pleasing personality helps you master the major cause of a failure which is the inability to get along with people harmoniously

Pleasing Personality 

Render more & better service than you are paid to render, doing it all the time & with a pleasing, positive attitude. The most successful men are those who serve the greatest number of people.

Going The Extra Mile 

The coordination kf effort between two or more people in a spirit of perfect harmony in order to attain a specific goal. Adapt a definite purpose with an objective to be attained by the alliance.Establish a plan in which each member makes a definite contribution No man can become a permanent success without taking others along with him

Master Mind Principle

The inner power that starts all action; the power that inspires the completion of that one begins. No man is free until he learns to do his own thinking and gains the courage to act on his own personal initiative.

Personal Initiative 

Hardship and adversity are a common language of nature in which she speaks to all living creatures and teaches them many things they would not learn in any other way.Every adversity carries with it the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

Learning From Adversity And Defeat

The highest form of self-discipline, the act of coordinating all your mind's faculties and directing their combined power to a given end. You can keep your mind working for you, even while you sleep, with controlled attention.

Controlled Attention

To govern your life, you must be able to given your mind, and that is the starting point of all riches. Be careful what you wish for, for you will surely achieve it.

Positive Mental Attitude 

Successful people know themselves, not as they think they are, but as their habits have made them: the use of time and money are the most vital of these habits. Tell me how you use your spare time and how you spend your money, and I will tell you where and what you will be ten years from now.

Budgeting Time And Money 

The cosmic habit force is the universe's law of equilibrium, the one natural law into which all other natural laws resolve themselves. When you learn to weave unpleasant circumstances into something useful, you're on the road to success.

Cosmic Habitforce 

Harmony based on a definite motive, cooperation is the medium through which great personal power may be attained; the willing cooperation and coordination of effort to achieve a specific objective. Harmonious cooperation is a priceless asset that you can acquire in proportion to your giving.

Cooperation

The starting point of all achievement. Know what your goal is & know what you want. This will create a "success conscious" & protect you against failures.

Definiteness Of Purpose

The 17 Universal Principles of Success & Achievement. Success is yours for the taking! 

Napoleon Hill summed up his philosophy of success in Think and Grow Rich!, one of the bestselling inspirational business books ever. A recent USA Today survey of business leaders named it one of the five most influential books in its field, more than 40 years after it was first published. Now, in Napoleon Hill's Keys to Success, his broadly outlined principles are expanded in detail for the first time, with concrete advice on their use and implementation. Compiled from Hill's teaching materials, lectures, and articles, Napoleon Hill's Keys to Success provides mental exercises, self-analysis techniques, powerful encouragement, and straightforward advice to anyone seeking personal and financial improvement. In addition to Hill's many personal true-life examples of the principles in action, there are also contemporary illustrations featuring dynamos like Bill Gates, Peter Lynch, and Donna Karan. No other Napoleon Hill book has addressed these 17 principles so completely and in such precise detail. For the millions of loyal Napoleon Hill fans and for those who discover him each year, Napoleon Hill's Keys to Success promises to be a valuable and important guide on the road to riches.

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Napoleon Hill summed up his philosophy of success in Think and Grow Rich!, one of the bestselling inspirational business books ever. A recent USA Today survey of business leaders named it one of the five most influential books in its field, more than 40 years after it was first published. Now, in Napoleon Hill's Keys to Success, his broadly outlined principles are expanded in detail for the first time, with concrete advice on their use and implementation. Compiled from Hill's teaching materials, lectures, and articles, Napoleon Hill's Keys to Success provides mental exercises, self-analysis techniques, powerful encouragement, and straightforward advice to anyone seeking personal and financial improvement. In addition to Hill's many personal true-life examples of the principles in action, there are also contemporary illustrations featuring dynamos like Bill Gates, Peter Lynch, and Donna Karan. No other Napoleon Hill book has addressed these 17 principles so completely and in such precise detail. For the millions of loyal Napoleon Hill fans and for those who discover him each year, Napoleon Hill's Keys to Success promises to be a valuable and important guide on the road to riches.

Oliver Napoleon Hill was an American self-help author. He is best known for his book Think and Grow Rich, which is among the best-selling self-help books of all time. Hill's works insisted that fervid expectations are essential to improving one's life.

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