Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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tiny.ag/0csjlftm · ★★☆☆ Fair (70 ratings) · submitted 2011 by peter
Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door.
tiny.ag/okiuvldz · ★★☆☆ Fair (145 ratings) · submitted 1997
When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.
tiny.ag/krs8ezg1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (113 ratings) · submitted 1997
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
Charlie McCarthy, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/i1bt6pjo · ★★☆☆ Fair (92 ratings) · submitted 1998 by Tim McGowan
I must catch up with the others, for I am their leader.
tiny.ag/tgov7yf4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (60 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
tiny.ag/wyl7j4bs · ★★☆☆ Fair (137 ratings) · submitted 1997
Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.
tiny.ag/emt4aro3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (773 ratings) · submitted 1997
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
tiny.ag/zi6fgh0w · ★★☆☆ Fair (47 ratings) · submitted 1997
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
tiny.ag/rvxpkbzw · ★★☆☆ Fair (57 ratings) · submitted 1997
The average person thinks he isn't.
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/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/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/zdvgyvsm · ★★☆☆ Fair (256 ratings) · submitted 1997
Be braver -- you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
tiny.ag/jvo6jzxe · ★★☆☆ Fair (257 ratings) · submitted 1997
Only the mediocre are always at their best.
tiny.ag/orx9er1h · ★★☆☆ Fair (383 ratings) · submitted 1997
The wind and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
tiny.ag/py5syczo · ★★☆☆ Fair (19 ratings) · submitted 1997
Things don't go wrong, they simply happen.
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
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