Success and Failure

Success is a journey, not a destination.

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Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.

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Strategy: A long-range plan whose merit cannot be evaluated until sometime after those creating it have left the organization.

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Some people dream of success, while others wake up and work hard at it.

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Try to get all of your posthumous medals in advance.

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Use soft words and hard arguments.

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Watch for big problems; they disguise big opportunities.

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Weiler's Law: Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.

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Wethern's Law: Assumption is the mother of all screw-ups.

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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

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While anyone can admit to themselves they were wrong, the true test is admission to someone else.

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You're a genius if you fly a kite during a thunderstorm, and discover that lightning is electricity -- but you're an idiot if you fly a kite during a thunderstorm, and discover that lightning can kill you.

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Silverman's Law: If Murphy's Law can go wrong, it will.

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Small minds are the first to condemn great ideas.

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Smile, it makes people wonder what you are thinking.

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Some day my boat will come in, and with my luck I'll be at the airport.

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Some days you're the dog, some days you're the hydrant.

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Murphy's Law: If anything can go wrong, it will.

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You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

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You can't carve your way to success without cutting remarks.

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