Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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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/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/la8pw7kl · ★★☆☆ Fair (381 ratings) · submitted 1997
We have had an Imperial lesson; it may make us an Empire yet!
tiny.ag/1ywkwx4s · ★★☆☆ Fair (136 ratings) · 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/boc0z1r2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (74 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.
tiny.ag/6wach9td · ★★☆☆ Fair (117 ratings) · submitted 1997
Pick battles big enough to matter, but small enough to win.
tiny.ag/varfwyts · ★★☆☆ Fair (58 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.
tiny.ag/e97mpzt2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (327 ratings) · submitted 1997
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
tiny.ag/xuprbfr6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (98 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you pray for rain, don't be surprised if you're struck by lightning.
tiny.ag/zdvgyvsm · ★★☆☆ Fair (256 ratings) · submitted 1997
Be braver -- you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
tiny.ag/wlbk96e3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (238 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
J. Paul Getty, in Success and Failure and Wealth and Poverty
tiny.ag/py5syczo · ★★☆☆ Fair (19 ratings) · submitted 1997
Things don't go wrong, they simply happen.
tiny.ag/orx9er1h · ★★☆☆ Fair (383 ratings) · submitted 1997
The wind and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
tiny.ag/jvo6jzxe · ★★☆☆ Fair (257 ratings) · submitted 1997
Only the mediocre are always at their best.
tiny.ag/he6rec8v · ★★☆☆ Fair (842 ratings) · submitted 1997
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
tiny.ag/sk2lr8ad · ★★☆☆ Fair (77 ratings) · submitted 1997
We will burn that bridge when we come to it.
tiny.ag/hvtbkoet · ★★☆☆ Fair (32 ratings) · submitted 1997
When everyone is against you, it means you are absolutely wrong -- or you are absolutely right.
tiny.ag/pyfjvpn5 · ★★☆☆ Fair (79 ratings) · submitted 1997
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
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