Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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tiny.ag/impebxsb · ★★☆☆ Fair (78 ratings) · submitted 1997
Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.
tiny.ag/zv26ipgu · ★★☆☆ Fair (84 ratings) · submitted 1997
Remember only the good, the bad will never forget you.
tiny.ag/s4bygqtn · ★★☆☆ Fair (66 ratings) · submitted 1997
The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.
tiny.ag/dvzdavyb · ★★☆☆ Fair (55 ratings) · submitted 1997
The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.
tiny.ag/jlevctud · ★★☆☆ Fair (45 ratings) · submitted 1997
Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.
tiny.ag/la8pw7kl · ★★☆☆ Fair (381 ratings) · submitted 1997
We have had an Imperial lesson; it may make us an Empire yet!
tiny.ag/1ywkwx4s · ★★☆☆ Fair (136 ratings) · submitted 1997
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
Henry Kissinger, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/boc0z1r2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (74 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.
tiny.ag/6wach9td · ★★☆☆ Fair (117 ratings) · submitted 1997
Pick battles big enough to matter, but small enough to win.
tiny.ag/4horecyq · ★★☆☆ Fair (57 ratings) · submitted 1997
Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
tiny.ag/ecbydwuh · ★★☆☆ Fair (846 ratings) · submitted 1997
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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (90 ratings) · 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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (161 ratings) · submitted 1999
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
tiny.ag/f6aon4ji · ★★☆☆ Fair (1099 ratings) · submitted 1998
Never try to out-stubborn a cat.
Robert A. Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazarus Long, in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/iwcasutl · ★★☆☆ Fair (29 ratings) · submitted 1997
The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.
tiny.ag/1j9ttvjx · ★★☆☆ Fair (71 ratings) · submitted 1997
With every passing hour, our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster M13 in the constellation Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist that there is no such thing as progress.
tiny.ag/dxiykzqf · ★★☆☆ Fair (254 ratings) · submitted 1999
If at first you don't succeed, try, and try again. Then give up. There's no sense in being a damned fool about it.
tiny.ag/yyswmzge · ★★☆☆ Fair (373 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you're strong enough, there are no precedents.
tiny.ag/ykvnehgu · ★★☆☆ Fair (729 ratings) · submitted 1997
Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
tiny.ag/16klo0kt · ★★☆☆ Fair (881 ratings) · submitted 1997
Whether you think that you can or that you can't, you are usually right.
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