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The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

131 | Napoleon Hill: “Don’t Procrastinate. Don’t Stand Still. Attack.”

The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

Sean Croxton

Mental Health, Self-improvement, Education, Entrepreneurship, Health & Fitness, Business

4.83.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2017

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

It’s flashback Friday with Napoleon Hill, author of Think and Grow Rich. He shares how to move beyond procrastination, embrace opportunity. You’ll also learn how he came up with the title of the classic book and how you can get your mind to do ANYTHING you want it to do. This clip comes from his audio program, Napoleon Hill: In His Own Voice, available on Audible.com




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0:00.0

Don't procrastinate. Don't stand still. Attack. That is the quote of the day.

0:30.0

Welcome back to the quote of the day show. I'm your host Sean Crox and a Sean Crox and dot com.

0:41.8

Today I've got a flashback Friday episode for you with one of my favorite authors of all time.

0:46.3

Mr. Napoleon Hill, of course, he is the author of Thinking Grow Rich. And today Napoleon is talking

0:50.6

about how to move beyond procrastination, how to embrace opportunity and make your own circumstances.

0:58.5

And I love the story about how he commanded his subconscious mind to come up with a title for his book Thinking Grow Rich.

1:05.5

I think you're going to dig it. Check it out. Here's Napoleon.

1:09.5

When I wrote Thinking Grow Rich, the original title of it was the 13 steps to riches.

1:15.8

And both the publisher and I knew that was not a box office title. We had to have a million dollar title.

1:21.2

Well, they went ahead and set the tie. I set the book up and type.

1:24.8

And the publisher kept prodding me every day to give him the title that I wanted.

1:29.6

And I wrote it five or six hundred titles. There weren't any of them in a good.

1:34.4

Not any of them.

1:37.2

And then one day he scared the dickens out of me. He called me up and said,

1:40.6

well, he said, tomorrow morning, I've got to have that title. And I said, if you don't have one,

1:45.1

I have one as a humblinger. I said, what is it?

1:48.0

He said, we're going to call it, use your noodle and get the noodle. I said, my goodness, you're ruined me.

1:54.8

Why is that? This is a dignified book. And that's a flip of title.

2:00.2

Why that will ruin the book and me too? Well, it's whether we learn off that's the title.

2:03.6

Unless you give me a better one by tomorrow morning.

2:08.1

Now, I want you to follow this incident because it's late. It's potent with food for thought.

2:14.0

What I'm not telling.

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