Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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tiny.ag/tgov7yf4 · submitted 1997
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
tiny.ag/i1bt6pjo · submitted 1998 by Tim McGowan
I must catch up with the others, for I am their leader.
tiny.ag/krs8ezg1 · submitted 1997
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
Charlie McCarthy, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/okiuvldz · submitted 1997
When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.
tiny.ag/slwohzjt · submitted 1997
It's kinda fun to do the impossible.
tiny.ag/emt4aro3 · submitted 1997
It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.
William Markiewicz, Extracts of Existence, in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/9bumiall · submitted 1997
There's nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
tiny.ag/lsjxix1g · submitted 1997
Sloppy thinking only gets worse with decapitation.
tiny.ag/tacuwmyh · submitted 1997
He who hesitates is probably smart... or maybe stapled to the floor.
tiny.ag/wva2bjoz · submitted 1997
I kept on digging the hole deeper and deeper looking for the treasure chest until I finally lifted my head, looked up and realised that I had dug my own grave.
Dominic, (on the psychology of a gambler), in Life and Death and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/xgpm1arf · submitted 1999
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
tiny.ag/uyr1lndu · submitted 1997
To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
tiny.ag/zi6fgh0w · submitted 1997
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
tiny.ag/xiwdsjg7 · submitted 1997
Hard reality has a way of cramping your style.
tiny.ag/y5vkzeae · submitted 1997
An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.
Stephen R. Covey, Principle-Centered Leadership, in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/t8hgtc1d · submitted 1997
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
W. Edwards Deming, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/dvyytf1b · submitted 1997
No one really knows enough to be a pessimist.
tiny.ag/shpmv1fs · submitted 1997
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake.
tiny.ag/nms3wmpx · submitted 1997
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
tiny.ag/r5b2304k · submitted 1997
You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.
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