Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 7 comments
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tiny.ag/vhuaqm1e · ★★☆☆ Fair (128 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you do what you've always done, you'll be what you've always been.
tiny.ag/t2ay3kb5 · ★★☆☆ Fair (67 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you see a turtle on a fence post, he has had some help.
tiny.ag/ohvcxj98 · ★★☆☆ Fair (61 ratings) · submitted 1997
Imbesi's Law with Freeman's Extension: In order for something to become clean, something else must become dirty; but you can get everything dirty without getting anything clean.
tiny.ag/u1iblda0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (66 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is a mistake to allow any mechanical object to realize you are in a hurry.
tiny.ag/uc5f23qi · ★★☆☆ Fair (284 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
tiny.ag/d4uzlrvm · ★★☆☆ Fair (280 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is always better to fail in doing something than to excel in doing nothing.
tiny.ag/9unwygui · ★★☆☆ Fair (18 ratings) · submitted 1997
Any time you think you have influence, try ordering around someone else's dog.
tiny.ag/qyrspbdi · ★★☆☆ Fair (36 ratings) · submitted 1997
Any time things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.
tiny.ag/frlb4xpk · ★★☆☆ Fair (29 ratings) · submitted 1997
Any small object that is accidentally dropped will hide under a larger object.
tiny.ag/o9rrnhjx · ★★☆☆ Fair (16 ratings) · submitted 1997
Anthony's Law of the Workshop: Any tool, when dropped, will roll into the least accessible corner of the workshop.
tiny.ag/mximzhqd · ★★☆☆ Fair (29 ratings) · submitted 1997
Anyone who uses the phrase "easy as taking candy from a baby" has never tried taking candy from a baby.
tiny.ag/6wach9td · ★★☆☆ Fair (117 ratings) · submitted 1997
Pick battles big enough to matter, but small enough to win.
tiny.ag/ecbydwuh · ★★☆☆ Fair (846 ratings) · submitted 1997
After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.
Edwin Lefèvre, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/shbtdjjo · ★★☆☆ Fair (230 ratings) · submitted 1997
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
tiny.ag/piklxjab · ★★☆☆ Fair (223 ratings) · submitted 1997
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
tiny.ag/d75fswen · ★★☆☆ Fair (90 ratings) · submitted 1998 by William F. Light
Don't let fear stop you.
William F. Light, (to someone threatening to knock him out), in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/4horecyq · ★★☆☆ Fair (57 ratings) · submitted 1997
Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
tiny.ag/k4nebyuf · ★★☆☆ Fair (814 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Austin Holmes
Even if you aren't making money at your job, but doing something you love to do, you are a true success.
tiny.ag/2uk6i3ep · ★★☆☆ Fair (26 ratings) · submitted 1997
Even a blind pig in a blizzard finds an acorn once in a while.
tiny.ag/8ixk9v6t · ★★☆☆ Fair (19 ratings) · submitted 1997
Hoare's Law of Large Problems: Inside every large problem is a small problem struggling to get out.
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