Success and Failure
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tiny.ag/hdkst9q4 · submitted 1997
You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
tiny.ag/lmbiznpc · submitted 1997
It's not over until it's over.
tiny.ag/tmknh1db · submitted 1997
99% of the game is half mental.
tiny.ag/4ocga7zg · submitted 1997
I have made mistakes, but have never made the mistake of claiming I never made one.
tiny.ag/u05c2aqo · submitted 1997
Nothing is difficult to those who have the will.
Unknown, (motto of the Dutch Poet's Society), in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/sm4gracz · submitted 1997
Strategy: A long-range plan whose merit cannot be evaluated until sometime after those creating it have left the organization.
tiny.ag/oxjpvl03 · submitted 1997
Some people dream of success, while others wake up and work hard at it.
tiny.ag/yojpg6ut · submitted 1997
Some days you're the dog, some days you're the hydrant.
tiny.ag/qwjktm2e · submitted 1997
Some day my boat will come in, and with my luck I'll be at the airport.
tiny.ag/s1xthnqz · submitted 1997
Smile, it makes people wonder what you are thinking.
tiny.ag/tkee56g3 · submitted 1997
Small minds are the first to condemn great ideas.
tiny.ag/p0z9jdbr · submitted 1997
Silverman's Law: If Murphy's Law can go wrong, it will.
tiny.ag/jb6usc1h · submitted 1997
Reach for the moon and if you miss at least you will land among the stars.
tiny.ag/z1irlfxp · submitted 1997
Once you've tried to change the world you find it's a whole bunch easier to change your mind.
tiny.ag/aa3jqtel · submitted 1997
Oliver's Law: Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
tiny.ag/oumhmbbr · submitted 1997
Official Project Stages: (1) Uncritical Acceptance. (2) Wild Enthusiasm. (3) Dejected Disillusionment. (4) Total Confusion. (5) Search for the Guilty. (6) Punishment of the Innocent. (7) Promotion of the Non-participants.
tiny.ag/xts9pvd0 · submitted 1997
Perfection is only achieved on the point of collapse.
Unknown, (from Bjarne Stroustrup's book on C++), in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/5ce9bwks · submitted 1997
Mistakes are often the stepping stones to utter failure.
tiny.ag/rcehbv9s · submitted 1997
Putt's Law: Technology is dominated by two types of people: Those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
tiny.ag/w3vp1iki · submitted 1997
Money can't buy happiness -- but somehow it's more comfortable to cry in a Porsche than in a Lada.
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