Success and Failure

Strategy: A long-range plan whose merit cannot be evaluated until sometime after those creating it have left the organization.

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Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.

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Success is a journey, not a destination.

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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

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People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first.

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Mistakes are often the stepping stones to utter failure.

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Money can't buy happiness -- but somehow it's more comfortable to cry in a Porsche than in a Lada.

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Never make anything simple and efficient when a way can be found to make it complex and wonderful.

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Perfection is only achieved on the point of collapse.

Unknown, (from Bjarne Stroustrup's book on C++), in Success and Failure

Only those who do not expect anything are never disappointed. Only those who never try, never fail.

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Once you've tried to change the world you find it's a whole bunch easier to change your mind.

Unknown, in Altruism and Cynicism and Success and Failure

Oliver's Law: Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

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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.

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Non-Reciprocal Laws of Expectations: Negative expectations yield negative results. Positive expectations yield negative results.

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My hands are free, but my mind hesitates.

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Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules: The first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.

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Nothing is difficult to those who have the will.

Unknown, (motto of the Dutch Poet's Society), in Success and Failure

It is a mistake to allow any mechanical object to realize you are in a hurry.

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The race may not be always to the swift, or the battle to the strong, but that's sure the way to bet.

Damon Runyon, in Success and Failure

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.

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