Success
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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
Quoted in The World's Best Thoughts on Life and Living (1981)
Winners are people who have fun�and produce results as a result of their zest.
A Passion for Excellence (1985)
It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
The man who has the largest capacity for work and thought is the man who is bound to succeed.
My Life and Work (cowritten with Samuel Crowther; 1922)
No other area offers richer opportunities for successful innovation than the unexpected success.
Innovation and Entrepreneurship (1993)
The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.
If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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