Success and Failure

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

La Rochefoucauld, in Love and Hate and Success and Failure

Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is.

Will Rogers, in Success and Failure

You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising budget is big enough.

Ed Rollins, in Success and Failure

Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Ross Presser, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Plato, The Republic, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.

Henry Louis Mencken, in Success and Failure

To solve the problems of today, we must focus on tomorrow.

Erik Nupponen, in Success and Failure

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

Sean O'Casey, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

Your ass is grass and I am the lawnmower.

J. A. O'Fihely, in Success and Failure

The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.

John Ousterhout, in Success and Failure

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

Neil Peart, in Success and Failure

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

Vincent T. Lombardi, in Success and Failure

The average person thinks he isn't.

Larry Lorenzoni, in Success and Failure

Do, or do not. There is no try.

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

Nothing very good or very bad lasts very long.

D. W. Luthanen, in Success and Failure

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

Douglas MacArthur, in Success and Failure

Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.

Mao Tse-Tung, in Success and Failure

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

William Markiewicz, Extracts of Existence, in Success and Failure

When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.

Abraham Maslow, in Success and Failure

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

Charlie McCarthy, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation