Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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tiny.ag/xe17luio · submitted 1997
My hands are free, but my mind hesitates.
tiny.ag/qtbtjqxs · submitted 1997
You can't carve your way to success without cutting remarks.
tiny.ag/f65xdmkd · submitted 1997
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.
tiny.ag/xjrw4zcp · submitted 1997
While anyone can admit to themselves they were wrong, the true test is admission to someone else.
tiny.ag/jlmjkna4 · submitted 1997
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
tiny.ag/qhi9mj1t · submitted 1997
Wethern's Law: Assumption is the mother of all screw-ups.
tiny.ag/sdc7t2fc · submitted 1997
If there is a wrong way to do something, then someone will do it.
tiny.ag/k41czawu · submitted 1997
Weiler's Law: Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
tiny.ag/hzol4xrd · submitted 1997
Watch for big problems; they disguise big opportunities.
tiny.ag/tbra32py · submitted 1997
Use soft words and hard arguments.
tiny.ag/ovsgddqq · submitted 1997
Non-Reciprocal Laws of Expectations: Negative expectations yield negative results. Positive expectations yield negative results.
tiny.ag/yqo9cx7w · submitted 1997
Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.
tiny.ag/kjm5ugma · submitted 1997
Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.
tiny.ag/vtq15sgk · submitted 1997
Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.
tiny.ag/8ebocmyu · submitted 1997
Murphy's Law: If anything can go wrong, it will.
tiny.ag/wbhpks76 · submitted 1997
Measure twice because you can only cut once.
tiny.ag/axfjdopk · submitted 1997
First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.
tiny.ag/w3vp1iki · submitted 1997
Money can't buy happiness -- but somehow it's more comfortable to cry in a Porsche than in a Lada.
tiny.ag/zoq7mjnx · submitted 1997
Never make anything simple and efficient when a way can be found to make it complex and wonderful.
tiny.ag/uvpjrb6x · submitted 1997
Desperation is like stealing from the mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.
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