After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.

Edwin Lefèvre, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/d75fswen · submitted 1998 by William F. Light

Don't let fear stop you.

William F. Light, (to someone threatening to knock him out), in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/0aw3r6zu · submitted 1999

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

Vincent T. Lombardi, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/rvxpkbzw · submitted 1997

The average person thinks he isn't.

Larry Lorenzoni, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/mtyfl0j1 · submitted 1997

Do, or do not. There is no try.

George Lucas, The Empire Strikes Back (Yoda), in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/pdvztxjj · submitted 1997

You can run with the big dogs or sit on the porch and bark.

Wallace Arnold, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/shbtdjjo · submitted 1997

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

tiny.ag/0csjlftm · submitted 2011 by peter

Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/nz2qcagl · submitted 1997

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

Unknown, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/7a4ntqxo · submitted 1997

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

Unknown, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

tiny.ag/znt3vhbp · submitted 1997

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