Success and Failure

Even if you aren't making money at your job, but doing something you love to do, you are a true success.

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Ever notice that even the busiest people are never too busy to tell you just how busy they are?

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Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who decided to stand their ground.

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Every solution breeds new problems.

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Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.

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Everything you do or say is public relations.

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Experience is the worst teacher. It always gives the test first and the instruction afterwards.

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Finagle's Fourth Law: Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it only makes it worse.

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Boren's Laws: (1) When in charge, ponder. (2) When in trouble, delegate. (3) When in doubt, mumble.

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Cox's Philosophy: Life's a bitch, and then you die.

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Cheer up! Things are getting worse at a slower rate.

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By doing just a little every day, you can gradually let the task completely overwhelm you.

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Bradley's Bromide: If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in.

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An error is not a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

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Any time things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.

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All I ask of life is a constant and exaggerated sense of my own importance.

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All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.

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Any time you think you have influence, try ordering around someone else's dog.

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Anthony's Law of the Workshop: Any tool, when dropped, will roll into the least accessible corner of the workshop.

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Any small object that is accidentally dropped will hide under a larger object.

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