Success and Failure
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tiny.ag/d0mk6ixb · submitted 1997
The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.
tiny.ag/yevckcm5 · submitted 1997
There are a lot of ways to become a failure, but never taking a chance is the most successful.
tiny.ag/mnjs1wvi · submitted 1997
There are people who make things happen, those who watch what happens, and those who wonder what happened.
tiny.ag/tp4xrqcg · submitted 1997
There are two types of dirt: the dark kind, which is attracted to light objects, and the light kind, which is attracted to dark objects.
tiny.ag/pb2gjrze · submitted 1997
To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.
tiny.ag/r3bhbgos · submitted 1997
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
tiny.ag/hhdwpvkc · submitted 1997
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of them absent.
tiny.ag/pe3wjdh9 · submitted 1997
Jenkinson's Law: It won't work.
tiny.ag/uijwr4e3 · submitted 1997
To err is human, to forgive unusual.
tiny.ag/tacuwmyh · submitted 1997
He who hesitates is probably smart... or maybe stapled to the floor.
tiny.ag/xjrw4zcp · submitted 1997
While anyone can admit to themselves they were wrong, the true test is admission to someone else.
tiny.ag/jlmjkna4 · submitted 1997
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
tiny.ag/k41czawu · submitted 1997
Weiler's Law: Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
tiny.ag/uxknfqoq · submitted 1997
Try to get all of your posthumous medals in advance.
Unknown, in Life and Death and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/tbra32py · submitted 1997
Use soft words and hard arguments.
tiny.ag/hzol4xrd · submitted 1997
Watch for big problems; they disguise big opportunities.
tiny.ag/qhi9mj1t · submitted 1997
Wethern's Law: Assumption is the mother of all screw-ups.
tiny.ag/uqvndhdp · submitted 1997
Become addicted to constant and neverending self-improvement.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/gdmyudjb · submitted 1997
It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give up because by that time I was too famous.
tiny.ag/wlihbcon · submitted 1997
"It can't happen here" is number 1 on the list of famous last words.
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