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Success Quotes


"As we've gotten more successful, there's a gap between the speed of our publishing pipeline and the speed of our receiving submissions pipeline. Our pipeline of leaks has been increasing exponentially as our profile rises, and our ability to publish is increasing linearly."


"Defining OO as based on the use of class hierarchies and virtual functions is also practical in that it provides some guidance as to where OO is likely to be successful."


"Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful."


"It's hard to make something collaboratively. That's the challenge. Sometimes you're successful."


"The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people."


"Success comes from doing the hard part. When the hard part is all you've got, you're more likely to do it. And this is precisely why it's difficult to focus. Because focusing means acknowledging that you just signed up for the hard part."


"The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication."


"Make yourself an example, achieve it, but don't hurt anyone on the way up. I don't think I did that."


"The fact that I have been successful merely means that I can write and illustrate in my own way."


"If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story."


"A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible."


"All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war."



"In the end, you make your reputation and you have your success based upon credibility and being able to provide people who are really hungry for information what they want."


"It was growing dark on this long southern evening, and suddenly, at the exact point her finger had indicated, the moon lifted a forehead of stunning gold above the horizon, lifted straight out of filigreed, light-intoxicated clouds that lay on the skyline in attendant veils. Behind us, the sun was setting in a simultaneous congruent withdrawal and the river turned to flame in a quiet duel of gold....The new gold of moon astonishing and ascendant, he depleted gold of sunset extinguishing itself in the long westward slide, it was the old dance of days in the Carolina marshes, the breathtaking death of days before the eyes of children, until the sun vanished, its final signature a ribbon of bullion strung across the tops of water oaks."


"Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success."


"Well, the economic recovery was successful even though the Democrats opposed the reforms every step of the way. And it is clear the Democrats have no clear plan to strengthen our economy, as Republicans do."


"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."


"Give me a highly successful unionized industry."


"There is only one way to success, wealth and achievement and that is through a lot of hard work."


"Success is to wake up each morning and consciously decide that today will be the best day of your life."


"Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others."


"The single most important thing we can do today to ensure a strong, successful future for Wisconsin is invest in our kids early - because what we do now will determine what kind of state Wisconsin will be 10, 20, even 50 years from now."


"Possessed with a full confidence of the certain success which British valor must gain over such enemies, I have led you up these steep and dangerous rocks, only solicitous to show you the foe within your reach."


"Success comes when people act together failure tends to happen alone."


"As a success-minded person, you should always be looking to not only do your job but do it with excellence and go the extra mile."


"True Success adds value to others."


"'s one of the perversities of the age: I'm embarrassed by its success, but I'm happy it's selling."


"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."


"Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act."


"NOW, touching this business of old Jeeves " my man, you know " how do we stand? Lots of people think I'm much too dependent on him. My Aunt Agatha, in fact, has even gone so far as to call him my keeper. Well, what I say is: Why not? The man's a genius."


"A market that's as open as possible is the precondition for a successful economy, and a successful economy is the precondition to being able to pay for social security."


"If you want to do really important things in life and big things in life, you can't do anything by yourself. And your best teams are your friends and your siblings."



"One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself."


"In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high."


"The course you take determines your greatness or failure."


"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."


"You crave winning and fear losing instead of just doing. To succeed you must remove your self-imposed limitations."


"Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met."


"We planted bugs, microphones, in premises which interested us in the West. We weren't too successful - I would have said unfortunately in former years, but I don't care anymore now."


"Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue."
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