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Success Quotes


"No matter how much success you're having, you can't continue working together if you can't communicate."


"I think the Pistons have such a well rounded team, which is why they're so successful. All you have to do is look at the stats defensively and at their rebounding and scoring."


"Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about."


"The success of a production depends on the attention paid to detail."


"Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall."


"Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable."


"What you get by achieving your goals is as important as what you become by achieving your goals."


"Although awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories."


"It is incumbent upon all of us to build communities with the educational opportunities and support systems in place to help our youth become successful adults."


"Ford didn't know what to do with Mister Roberts that wasn't repeating what was successful in New York. He was trying to do things to the play that would be his in the film."


"Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success."


"There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat."


"The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen."


"We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success."


"The effectiveness of advertising depends on the amount and kind of product information available to consumers... advertising will be more successful the more impoverished the consumer's information environment."


"America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success."


"I get bitter, angry and disbelieving and I tell my kids there a lot of idiots out there. I also want them to know that being successful is not the real world - that their parents get treated better because they're on TV."


"Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way."


"I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success."


"Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins."


"If it must be enjoyed, then it must be done. And if it must be done, then it must be done well. If it is done well, it is enjoyed well."


"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success."


"Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure."


"The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever."


"There are many highly successful businesses in the United States. There are also many highly paid executives. The policy is not to intermingle the two."


"In your temporary failure there is no evidence that you may not yet be a better scholar, and a more successful man in the great struggle of life, than many others, who have entered college more easily."


"Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success."


"Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds."


"The secret of success is being persistent and having a definite purpose."


"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go."
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