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Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing.
Margaret Thatcher1925–2013
Greatness is not where we stand but in what direction we are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894The Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table
- Motivation & Goals
The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
Augustine of Hippo354–430Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 330.
It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.
George D. Prentice1802–1870
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
Laurence J. Peter1919–1990
To succeed, we must first believe that we can.
MKMichael Kordaborn 1933Success! (1977)
If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart.
Henry Kissinger1923–2023
- Business
The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790
- Business
Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.
PBPaul Boese
- Motivation & Goals
- Nature
Failure is success if we learn from it.
Malcolm Forbes1919–1990
- Failure
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.
CCCharles Caleb Colton1777–1832Lacon (1820), Volume 1, Vol. I; CCCCXXVII (7th Edition, published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, in 1821)
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Bill Gatesborn 1955Business @ The Speed of Thought (1999)
- Business
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
W. Somerset Maugham1874–1965The Summing Up (1938), p. 182
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
Christopher Morley1890–1957
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson1830–1886Success is counted sweetest (1864)In context