Success and Failure

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Success and Failure

If I traveled to the end of the rainbow
As Dame Fortune did intend,
Murphy would be there to tell me
The pot's at the other end.

Bert Whitney, in Success and Failure

He who hesitates is a damned fool.

Mae West, in Success and Failure

As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error.

Weisert, in Success and Failure

Usually, if you're calling any shots at all, you're not eating worms.

Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes (the Susie Derkins character), in Success and Failure

Nothing ventured, nothing gained -- but if everything is ventured, and still nothing gained, give up and venture elsewhere.

Peter Wastholm, in Success and Failure

Always expect the worst, and you will never be disappointed.

Peter Wastholm, in Success and Failure

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.

George Washington, in Success and Failure

All my life I wanted to be someone; I guess I should have been more specific.

Jane Wagner, in Success and Failure

If you cannot convince them, confuse them.

Harry S Truman, in Success and Failure

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

Publilius Syrus, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance

If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.

Publilius Syrus, in Success and Failure

Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.

Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower, in Success and Failure

When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.

Dylan Thomas, in Success and Failure

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not.

Virgil Thomson, in Success and Failure

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power of the greatest obstacle.

Henry David Thoreau, in Success and Failure

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal, in Success and Failure

They are able because they think they are able.

Vergil, in Success and Failure

The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.

William Van Horne, in Success and Failure

A witty saying proves nothing.

Voltaire, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance