Success and Failure

First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure

Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure

If wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we'd all ride.

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure

If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure

Modesty is the opium of the mediocre.

Marty Milner, in Success and Failure

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll need them on your way down.

Wilson Mizner, in Success and Failure and Vice and Virtue

When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.

Joe Namath, in Success and Failure

If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Isaac Newton, in Success and Failure

What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

Friedrich Nietzsche, in Life and Death and 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

Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Success and Failure

Don't let fear stop you.

William F. Light, (to someone threatening to knock him out), 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