Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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tiny.ag/eswahi1x · submitted 1997
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.
tiny.ag/iyraxvda · submitted 1997
Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commision.
tiny.ag/zsgksyjo · submitted 1997
Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.
tiny.ag/ecbydwuh · 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/4horecyq · submitted 1997
Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
tiny.ag/6wach9td · submitted 1997
Pick battles big enough to matter, but small enough to win.
tiny.ag/boc0z1r2 · submitted 1997
If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.
tiny.ag/1ywkwx4s · 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/la8pw7kl · submitted 1997
We have had an Imperial lesson; it may make us an Empire yet!
tiny.ag/jgjax6rp · submitted 1999
Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already.
tiny.ag/dxbh08ml · submitted 1997
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
tiny.ag/axybc0uz · submitted 1997
With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
tiny.ag/2xwphyb8 · submitted 1997
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
tiny.ag/ynhvcg3k · submitted 1997
Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.
tiny.ag/piklxjab · submitted 1997
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
tiny.ag/ndscvllq · submitted 1997
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
tiny.ag/zpsqkb73 · submitted 1997
The more you wrestle with a turd, the more shit gets on you.
tiny.ag/fwsozshx · submitted 1997
If you have a bowl of apples and you eat the best ones first, then you have only the best ones left.
tiny.ag/ka7fkx9f · submitted 1997
To buy happiness is to sell soul.
tiny.ag/5r2sagdx · submitted 1997
To hit bottom is to fall from grace.
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