Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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tiny.ag/ki5uq3ph · submitted 1997
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
tiny.ag/cf7uraml · submitted 1997
Intelligence is nothing without delight.
tiny.ag/dlqoy9f3 · submitted 1997
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke, Technology and the Future, in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/vjl9ro7i · submitted 1997
Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life.
tiny.ag/rxx8g4si · submitted 1997
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
tiny.ag/9einaqki · submitted 1997
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
Jean Cocteau, in Altruism and Cynicism and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/r5b2304k · submitted 1997
You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.
tiny.ag/nms3wmpx · submitted 1997
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
tiny.ag/shpmv1fs · submitted 1997
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake.
tiny.ag/dvyytf1b · submitted 1997
No one really knows enough to be a pessimist.
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/60xih5fm · submitted 1997
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
tiny.ag/of4kcoqn · submitted 1997
There are really not many jobs that actually require a penis or a vagina, and all other occupations should be open to everyone.
tiny.ag/u9pdixbi · submitted 1997
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.
Bessie Stanley, in Happiness and Misery and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/zmkoye6d · submitted 1997
Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it.
tiny.ag/ecgyv8jm · submitted 1997
To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.
tiny.ag/zdanfcvk · submitted 1997
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
tiny.ag/zsifm5dt · submitted 1997
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
George Bernard Shaw, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/qkzfb5u9 · submitted 1997
You see things and you say, "Why?" But I see things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah, Part I, Act I (1921), in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/dhpqxvke · submitted 1997
Talkers are no good doers.
William Shakespeare, Henry VI, in Success and Failure
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