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Success Quotes
"How important has Phil Jackson been to the success of the Lakers? He's very important."
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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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"No matter what you do always strive to be the best."
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"I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that. Don't rush into adulthood, it isn't all that much fun."
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"Entrepreneurs with disabilities are overwhelmingly successful."
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"The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents."
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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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"Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals."
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"The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same."
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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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"The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence."
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"There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period."
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"Whatever you are, be a good one."
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"The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense."
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"When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different people acting in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper criterion of success. So, it's a difficult task."
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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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"Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable."
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"There is some sign that North Korea is changing recently. There is ongoing successful negotiation to have a military talk to Pyongyang, which has been stopped for seven years."
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"Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe."
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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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"It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful."
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"In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high."
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"People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations."
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"That's the key to success, isn't it? It has to be fun."
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"Success is mainly the result of hard work."
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"All rising to great places is by a winding stair."
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"Passion + Purpose = Prosperity."
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"Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning."
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"But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds."
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"First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination."
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"The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture."
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"I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success."
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"First of all we have to recognize that despite all the problems - and in some cases failures - that this regime has been much more successful, much more resilient, than people had anticipated."
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"Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1."
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