Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to order.

Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.

The average person would have quit at the first failure. That’s why there have been many average men and only one Edison.

Greatest sin of man kind: neglect to use his greatest asset.

Every company has room for the man who has a definite plan of action which is to the advantage of that company.

The bottom is a monotonous, dreary, unprofitable place for any person. That is why I have taken the time to describe how lowly beginnings may be circumvented by proper planning.

Napoleon Hill saw this law of transmutation as the seed of equivalent benefit: With every disappointment, heartbreak, or failure, there exists an equal (usually greater) positive benefit.