Success and Failure

The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.

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Once you've tried to change the world you find it's a whole bunch easier to change your mind.

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It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.

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Oliver's Law: Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

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Official Project Stages: (1) Uncritical Acceptance. (2) Wild Enthusiasm. (3) Dejected Disillusionment. (4) Total Confusion. (5) Search for the Guilty. (6) Punishment of the Innocent. (7) Promotion of the Non-participants.

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Nothing is difficult to those who have the will.

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Non-Reciprocal Laws of Expectations: Negative expectations yield negative results. Positive expectations yield negative results.

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Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules: The first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.

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Never make anything simple and efficient when a way can be found to make it complex and wonderful.

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My hands are free, but my mind hesitates.

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Money can't buy happiness -- but somehow it's more comfortable to cry in a Porsche than in a Lada.

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Mistakes are often the stepping stones to utter failure.

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Measure twice because you can only cut once.

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Life's a bitch, and then she has puppies.

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Law of Probability Dispersal: Whatever it is that hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.

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Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.

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Jones' Law: The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.

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Johnson's First Law: When any mechanical contrivance fails, it will do so at the most inconvenient possible time.

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If the odds are a million to one against something occurring, chances are 50-50 it will.

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If at first you don't succeed, redefine success.

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