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Success Quotes
"Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure."
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"Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out."
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"At Microsoft, we're aspiring to have a living, learning culture with a growth mindset that allows us to learn from ourselves and our customers. These are the key attributes of the new culture at Microsoft, and I feel great about how it seems to be resonating and how it's seen as empowering."
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"Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness."
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"The secret of our success is that we never, never give up."
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"I was now successful in proving that a direction of movement is localized in the cerebellum."
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"Squash has the credentials to become an olympic event and our goal is to see the sport in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. We are working towards this and will keep trying even if our bid is not successful."
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"I'm not playing myself. It's a symbolic situation, where I want to introduce a fascist behind the table. I couldn't have had anybody else do that; for it to be successful, I had to do it myself."
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"We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts."
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"But I think it's more normal for my team to have no success than it is to win two consecutive European cups."
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"In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner."
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"However, the occasional visit of success provides just the excitement an engineer needs to face work the following day."
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"Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library."
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"The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything."
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"So in Asia I want to make - I want to succeed to make a model of what success, practicing democracy, and market economy. Then that will give a good influence over Asian countries."
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"True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful."
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"We must prepare the ground for creativity. And if this also gives rise later to success in the economic sense, success in terms of Euros and Cents, this will by no means reduce my joy."
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"The development of our human resources is an area in which we need to do well as it is decisive in determining the success of our diversification programme."
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"When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb."
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"Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa."
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"I believe there should be no arbitrary date set for withdrawal and yet no permanent, unending deployment. No cut and run, yet measured progress in helping a people who want to be free without an illusion of overnight success."
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"I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing."
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"I have had all of the disadvantages required for success."
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"No matter what you do always strive to be the best."
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"My only regret is that I signed away the world rights and in America they've been far and away my most successful books, but I never saw a cent from any of it."
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"The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents."
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"Price is what you pay. Value is what you get."
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"A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success."
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"That something extra, I believe, is a certain humanity that comes from upbeat and positive human interest letters and success stories. Advertisers like to be associated with those qualities."
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"I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office."
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"Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead."
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