Success and Failure

There's no success like failure, And failure's no success at all.

Bob Dylan, "Love Minus Zero/No Limit", in Success and Failure

There's nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

Peter F. Drucker, in Success and Failure

Sloppy thinking only gets worse with decapitation.

Dr. Squid, in Success and Failure

He who hesitates is probably smart... or maybe stapled to the floor.

Dr. Squid, in Altruism and Cynicism and Success and Failure

I kept on digging the hole deeper and deeper looking for the treasure chest until I finally lifted my head, looked up and realised that I had dug my own grave.

Dominic, (on the psychology of a gambler), in Life and Death and Success and Failure

It's kinda fun to do the impossible.

Walt Disney, in Success and Failure

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.

Bernadette Devlin, in Success and Failure

Hard reality has a way of cramping your style.

Daniel Dennett, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.

W. Edwards Deming, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance

Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.

Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Success and Failure

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Benjamin Disraeli, in Success and Failure

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

Unknown, in Success and Failure

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

Unknown, in Success and Failure

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

Unknown, in Success and Failure

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

Unknown, in Success and Failure

Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

After all is said and done, a lot more is usually said than done.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

After an instrument has been assembled, extra components will be found on the bench.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

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

Unknown, in Success and Failure