Napoleon Hill's Master Key

Definiteness of Purpose is the starting point of all achievement. Don't be like a ship at sea without a rudder, powerless and directionless. Decide what you want, find out how to get it, and take daily action toward achieving your goal. You will get exactly and only what you ask and work for.

The Master Mind Principle consists of an alliance of two or more minds working in perfect harmony for the attainment of a common definite objective.

Render more and better service than that for which you are paid, and sooner or later you will receive compound interest from your investment. It is inevitable that every seed of useful service you sow will multiply itself and come back to you in overwhelming abundance.

Faith is a state of mind, which may develop by conditioning your mind to receive Infinite Intelligence. Applied faith is the adaptation of the power received from Infinite Intelligence to a major definite purpose.

Having a pleasing personality is the aggregate of all the agreeable, gratifying and likable qualities of any one individual.

Self-discipline, or self-control, means taking possession of your own mind.

Your mental attitude is the medium by which you can balance your life and your relationship to people and circumstances - to attract what you desire.

Enthusiasm is a state of mind. It inspires action and is the most contagious of all emotions. Enthusiasm is a combination of mental and physical energy, which are seldom found in an ailing body.

Personal initiative is the inner power that starts all action, the power that assures completion of anything one begins. It is the generator that spurs the faculty of your imagination into action and inspires you to finish what you start.

Every adversity carries with it a seed of an equivalent or greater benefit. Realize this statement, and believe in it. Close the door of your mind on all the failures and circumstances of your past so that your mind can operate in a Positive Mental Attitude. Everyone faces defeat. It may be a stepping-stone or a stumbling block, depending on the mental attitude with whicb it is faced.

Creative Vision is a quality of mind belonging only to men and women who follow the habit of going the extra mile, for it recognizes no such thing as the regu­larity of working hours, is not concerned with monetary compensation, and its highest aim is to do the impossible.

Accurate Thinking involves two fundamentals: First, you must separate facts from mere information. Second, you must separate facts into two classes - The Important and The Unimportant. Only by so doing so can you think clearly and accurately.

Cosmic Habit-force is the particular application of energy with which nature maintains the existing relationship between the atoms of matter. More important to us right now, it is the medium through which all habits and all human relationships are maintained and which all thoughts are translated into their physical equivalent.

A 31-minute lecture presentation recorded in 1963.

A 25-minute lecture presentation recorded in 1963.