Success and Failure
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tiny.ag/uxknfqoq · ★★☆☆ Fair (358 ratings) · submitted 1997
Try to get all of your posthumous medals in advance.
Unknown, in Life and Death and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/qdve785j · ★★☆☆ Fair (109 ratings) · submitted 1997
The more you know, the less you need to show.
tiny.ag/mnjs1wvi · ★★☆☆ Fair (108 ratings) · submitted 1997
There are people who make things happen, those who watch what happens, and those who wonder what happened.
tiny.ag/pb2gjrze · ★★☆☆ Fair (179 ratings) · submitted 1997
To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.
tiny.ag/r3bhbgos · ★★☆☆ Fair (192 ratings) · submitted 1997
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
tiny.ag/uijwr4e3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (221 ratings) · submitted 1997
To err is human, to forgive unusual.
tiny.ag/hhdwpvkc · ★★☆☆ Fair (182 ratings) · submitted 1997
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of them absent.
tiny.ag/ovsgddqq · ★★☆☆ Fair (115 ratings) · submitted 1997
Non-Reciprocal Laws of Expectations: Negative expectations yield negative results. Positive expectations yield negative results.
tiny.ag/6bpzcbnv · ★★☆☆ Fair (126 ratings) · submitted 1997
Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules: The first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.
tiny.ag/zoq7mjnx · ★★☆☆ Fair (116 ratings) · submitted 1997
Never make anything simple and efficient when a way can be found to make it complex and wonderful.
tiny.ag/xe17luio · ★★☆☆ Fair (109 ratings) · submitted 1997
My hands are free, but my mind hesitates.
tiny.ag/w3vp1iki · ★★☆☆ Fair (314 ratings) · submitted 1997
Money can't buy happiness -- but somehow it's more comfortable to cry in a Porsche than in a Lada.
tiny.ag/5ce9bwks · ★★☆☆ Fair (145 ratings) · submitted 1997
Mistakes are often the stepping stones to utter failure.
tiny.ag/wbhpks76 · ★★☆☆ Fair (100 ratings) · submitted 1997
Measure twice because you can only cut once.
tiny.ag/ckyj1g65 · ★★☆☆ Fair (321 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life's a bitch, and then she has puppies.
Unknown, in Life and Death and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/u05c2aqo · ★★☆☆ Fair (156 ratings) · submitted 1997
Nothing is difficult to those who have the will.
Unknown, (motto of the Dutch Poet's Society), in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/tkee56g3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (121 ratings) · submitted 1997
Small minds are the first to condemn great ideas.
tiny.ag/s1xthnqz · ★★☆☆ Fair (95 ratings) · submitted 1997
Smile, it makes people wonder what you are thinking.
tiny.ag/qwjktm2e · ★★☆☆ Fair (108 ratings) · submitted 1997
Some day my boat will come in, and with my luck I'll be at the airport.
tiny.ag/p0z9jdbr · ★★☆☆ Fair (101 ratings) · submitted 1997
Silverman's Law: If Murphy's Law can go wrong, it will.
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