In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.
--Louis Pasteur, scientist
Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is. ...It is your excuse to yourself for not doing anything. Instead, strive for excellence. Do your best!
--Laurence Olivier, actor
The man who follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd.
--R.S. Donnell, poet
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
--Julie Andrews, actress, singer
Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
--George Burns, comedian
We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?
--Seneca, Roman philosopher, statesman
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
--Henry David Thoreau, writer, philosopher
ENERGY AND PERSISTANCE CONQUER ALL THINGS. (I would throw FAITH in there too)
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
--W. Somerset Maugham, writer.
The longer you wait to decide what you want to do, the more time you are wasting. It is up to you to want something so badly that your passion shows through in your actions. Your actions, not your words, will do the shouting for you.
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles that one has overcome while trying to succeed.
--Booker T. Washington, educator
It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.
--Jackie Joyner-Kersee, athlete
One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
--Arthur Ashe, tennis player
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
--Bob Dylan, singer
About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.
--Tommy Lasorda, baseball manager
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.
--Pythagoras, Greek mathematician, philosopher
When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was to become a pro.
--Larry Bird, basketball player
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
--Anne Sullivan, educator
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
--Calvin Coolidge, 30th US President
People are like wine – some turn into vinegar, but the best improve with age.
--Pope John XXIII
When reaching a goal, the rockier the path, the stronger you will grow. Move forward. Take action. And make it happen.
--Irish proverb
Ultimately, success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It is what you do for others.
--Danny Thomas, actor, comedian
The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
--Roger Bannister, runner
Great ideas have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
--Albert Einstein, physicist
Being miserable is a habit. Being happy is a habit. The choice is yours.
--Tom Hopkins, sales trainer
Most people search high and wide for the keys to success. If they only knew the key to their dreams lies within.
"If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner" -- Tallulah Bankhead (actress)
Success is a State of Mind - - Tommy Bahama Profits always take care of themselves but losses never do. The speculator has to insure himself against considerable losses by taking their first small loss. - - Jesse Livermore The game of speculation is the most uniformly fascinating game in the world. But it is not a game for the stupid, the mentally lazy, the man of inferior emotional balance, nor for the get-rich-quick adventurer. They will die poor. - - Jesse Livermore
Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
--Vannevar Bush, computer pioneer
It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.
--Bruce Barton, advertising executive
If life was so easy that you could just go buy success, there would be a lot more successful companies in the world. Successful enterprises are built from the ground up.
Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright, they're grand. -Benny Hill
Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs painting. -Billy Rose
What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary. -Richard Harkness
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. -Ernest Hemingway
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. -David Friedman
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity. -Albert Einstein
"The tallest blade of grass always gets cut first" -Anonymous
Success is a State of Mind - - Tommy Bahama Profits always take care of themselves but losses never do. The speculator has to insure himself against considerable losses by taking their first small loss. - - Jesse Livermore The game of speculation is the most uniformly fascinating game in the world. But it is not a game for the stupid, the mentally lazy, the man of inferior emotional balance, nor for the get-rich-quick adventurer. They will die poor. - - Jesse Livermore
"I read this article a while back that said that Microsoft employs more millionaire secretaries than any other company in the world. They took stock options over Christmas bonuses. It was a good move. I remember there was this picture, of one of the groundskeepers next to his Ferrari. Blew my mind. You see mess like that, and it just plants seeds, makes you think its possible, even easy. And then you turn on the TV, and there's just more of it. The $87 million lottery winner, that kid actor that just made 20 million on his last movie, that internet stock that shot through the roof, you could have made millions if you had just gotten in early, and that's exactly what I wanted to do: get in"
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