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Sammy Davis, Jr.

"The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with."

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"The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with."

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"When you were making excuses someone else was making enterprise."

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"When you focus on diligence and hard work miracle will come to you."

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"The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such."

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"Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity."

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"Things that you have remained 'sincere' to, those many things you have won. The world has to be won; only then will it let you go to moksha!"

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"God measures people by the small dimensions of humility and not by the bigness of their achievements or the size of their capabilities."

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"I don't know whether you have done your calculations but, about two or three years back, I did a first assessment of what the first successful device would be worth and it came out at about 300 trillion dollars."

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"I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much."
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"All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House."
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