Success and Failure

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

 Charlie McCarthy, in  Success and Failure and  Work and Recreation

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

 Sun Tzu, in  Success and Failure

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not.

 Virgil Thomson, in  Success and Failure

You are not what you think you are, you are not what they think you are, but you could be what you think they think you are.

 Unknown, in  Success and Failure

Sloppy thinking only gets worse with decapitation.

 Dr. Squid, in  Success and Failure

There are people who make things happen, those who watch what happens, and those who wonder what happened.

 Unknown, in  Success and Failure

After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.

 Edwin Lefèvre, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, in  Success and Failure

Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already.

 Søren Kierkegaard, in  Success and Failure

The majority of the time, the thing that gets in the way of success... is your brain.

 Chris Blake, in  Success and Failure

A ship doesn't travel far in a calm sea.

 Unknown, in  Success and Failure

To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and whatever you hit, call it the target.

 Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in  Success and Failure

Inform all the troops that communications have completely broken down.

 Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in  Success and Failure

I don't have any solution but I certainly admire the problem.

 Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in  Science and Religion and  Success and Failure

All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.

 Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in  Success and Failure

If at first you don't succeed, skydiving isn't for you.

 Unknown, in  Success and Failure

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

 Benjamin Disraeli, in  Success and Failure

As you ramble on through life, brother, whatever be your goal: keep your eyes upon the donut, and not upon the hole!

 Murray Banks, in  Success and Failure

The race may not be always to the swift, or the battle to the strong, but that's sure the way to bet.

 Damon Runyon, in  Success and Failure

Official Project Stages: (1) Uncritical Acceptance. (2) Wild Enthusiasm. (3) Dejected Disillusionment. (4) Total Confusion. (5) Search for the Guilty. (6) Punishment of the Innocent. (7) Promotion of the Non-participants.

 Unknown, in  Success and Failure

What a strange game. The only winning move is not to play.

 Unknown, (W.O.P.R. computer in War Games), in  Success and Failure and  War and Peace