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Success Quotes
"Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people."
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"Why are so many very smart people not also rich? I guess they are too busy calculating risks rather than getting into action."
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"Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon."
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"When discouraged some people will give up, give in or give out far too early. They blame their problems on difficult situations, unreasonable people or their own inabilities.When discouraged other people will push back that first impulse to quit, push down their initial fear, push through feelings of helplessness and push ahead. They're less likely to find something to blame and more likely to find a way through."
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"To be inefficient and effective is better than being efficient and ineffective."
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"Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising."
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"Success brings a measure of credibility. The fastest way to turn credibility into authority is to deliver results. The best way to deliver results is to help others succeed. You can help others succeed by being helpful. Always look for ways to be helpful. Helpful people are always in demand."
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"If you would devote your time to an activity even if you didn't receive payment, you have found a key to your destiny."
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"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success."
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"Most of these experiments required the reduction of the cosmic ray muon flux in order to be successful, and the group necessarily became expert in the operation of deep underground laboratories."
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"You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything."
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"All the nightmares will come true, whether you try or not, but for your dreams to come true, you have to do everything."
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"After the enormous success of All About my Mother, all the awards and everything, I wanted to start a movie in exactly the same place that I used to be before. I wanted to show that all of the success had not changed my perception."
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"The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success."
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"If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success."
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"What we have achieved is a good example of how the right policies deliver."
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"The Great Idea in advertising is far more than the sum of the recognition scores, the ratings and all the other superficial indicators of its success; it is in the realm of myth, to which measurements cannot apply."
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"Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character."
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"Success for an athlete follows many years of hard work and dedication."
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"The greatest victory comes not from winning against enemies but from winning over one's self."
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"I loved Australia. I was very successful there."
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"She's been a smack addict, she's had big success in Europe in the '70s, and she's lost everything. She's been rediscovered in the '80s, and as we meet her she's just about to sign a new recording contract."
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"My purpose is to have American Jews look away from the success story with which they've cheered themselves up, and to have them remember the classical tradition, whatever it is."
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"Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period."
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"I grew up and I became very successful at what I did as a young man. I became a work addict because this was the only way I could get any relief from this pain."
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"The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster."
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"Failure changes for the better success for the worse."
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"And there's no guarantee that if you get HIV and you take these triple therapies, or whatever comes along next, that they're going to be successful for you."
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"It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building companies or if they're just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don't really want to build a company, they won't luck into it. That's because it's so hard that if you don't have a passion, you'll give up."
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"With a group of bankers I always had the feeling that success was measured by the extent one gave nothing away."
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"Success is three parts hard work and one part serendipity, this serendipity is a direct result of the other three parts of hard work."
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"Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone."
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"No enterprise, small or large, public or private, can remain self-governing, let alone successful, so deeply in hock to others as we are about to be."
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"If you were to wake up tomorrow to a life where all your goals had been accomplished but had no memory of the work you put into succeeding, would you feel the happiness that you would have if you had completed your goals yourself? Probably not. Sure, perhaps you would live happily for a while given that you are suddenly living a dream life but in the long run something would be wrong. You wouldn't have learned the lessons you needed to maintain this new lifestyle. You see, the success is found in the journey, not the finish line. You need to learn the lessons that come with working hard, failing, trying again, and, eventually, succeeding at living the life you have always wanted."
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"Hard work works harder than luck!"
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"Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said."
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