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Success and Failure
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# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 2000)
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
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (paperback)# · Not So Good (2 ratings) · submitted 1999
Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already.
# · Not So Good (39 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Chris Blake
The majority of the time, the thing that gets in the way of success... is your brain.
# · Unrated · submitted 1999
A ship doesn't travel far in a calm sea.
# · Not So Good (47 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and whatever you hit, call it the target.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Success and Failure
# · Not So Good (40 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
Inform all the troops that communications have completely broken down.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Success and Failure
# · Not So Good (66 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
I don't have any solution but I certainly admire the problem.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
# · Not So Good (36 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Success and Failure
# · Unrated · submitted 1999 by Glenn Troester
If at first you don't succeed, skydiving isn't for you.
# · Not So Good (25 ratings) · submitted 1999
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
# · Not So Good (22 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
As you ramble on through life, brother, whatever be your goal: keep your eyes upon the donut, and not upon the hole!
# · Bad (one rating) · submitted 1999 by Bill Masterson (wmasterson
The race may not be always to the swift, or the battle to the strong, but that's sure the way to bet.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
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.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
What a strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
Unknown, (W.O.P.R. computer in War Games), in Success and Failure and War and Peace
War Games (VHS (NTSC))# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
You see things and you say, "Why?" But I see things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah, Part I, Act I (1921), in Success and Failure
# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
Talkers are no good doers.
William Shakespeare, Henry VI, in Success and Failure
# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Plato, The Republic, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
The Republic (paperback)# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.
William Markiewicz, Extracts of Existence, in Success and Failure
# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
Do, or do not. There is no try.
George Lucas, The Empire Strikes Back (Yoda), in Success and Failure
The Empire Strikes Back, special ed. (VHS (NTSC))# · Not So Good (15 ratings) · submitted 1998 (updated 1999)
Never try to out-stubborn a cat.
Robert A. Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazarus Long, in Success and Failure
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