Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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341–360 (377)
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/rvxpkbzw · ★★☆☆ Fair (57 ratings) · submitted 1997
The average person thinks he isn't.
tiny.ag/mtyfl0j1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (753 ratings) · submitted 1997
tiny.ag/enjckxg8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (45 ratings) · submitted 1997
Nothing very good or very bad lasts very long.
tiny.ag/ry72cat0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (256 ratings) · submitted 1997
There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
tiny.ag/9kdycunx · ★★☆☆ Fair (1386 ratings) · submitted 1997
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve.
Robert Frost, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/jymwcve2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (120 ratings) · submitted 1997
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
tiny.ag/wnceow6i · ★★☆☆ Fair (48 ratings) · submitted 1997
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
tiny.ag/dncdjxtf · ★★☆☆ Fair (55 ratings) · submitted 1997
No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
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/ifr4pyih · ★★☆☆ Fair (52 ratings) · submitted 1997
Prophecy is many times the principal cause of the events foretold.
Thomas Hobbes, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/qn68ckxs · ★★☆☆ Fair (203 ratings) · submitted 1997
Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take Hofstadter's Law into account.
tiny.ag/wiq0woar · ★★☆☆ Fair (22 ratings) · submitted 1997
Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.
tiny.ag/vtq15sgk · ★★☆☆ Fair (117 ratings) · submitted 1997
Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.
tiny.ag/kjm5ugma · ★★☆☆ Fair (201 ratings) · submitted 1997
Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.
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