Success and Failure

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

Howard Aiken, in Success and Failure

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.

Kehlog Albran, in Success and Failure

Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commision.

Fred Allen, in Success and Failure

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

Woody Allen, in Success and Failure

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

Aesop, in Happiness and Misery and Success and Failure

The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.

Alan Ashley-Pitt, in Success and Failure

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

Cheer up! Things are getting worse at a slower rate.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

Cox's Philosophy: Life's a bitch, and then you die.

Unknown, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

DeVries' Dilemma: If you hit two keys on the typewriter, the one you don't want hits the paper.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

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

Unknown, in Success and Failure

A bend in the road is not the end of the road -- unless you fail to make the turn.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

A carelessly planned project takes three times longer to complete than expected; a carefully planned project will take only twice as long.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

A computer can make as many mistakes in two seconds as 20 men working for 20 years.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

A conceited person never gets anywhere because he thinks he is already there.

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

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

A day for firm decisions! Or is it?

Unknown, in Success and Failure

A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.

Unknown, in Success and Failure