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Success
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By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.
Robert Frost
(1874 – 1963) American poet
Success
Time
Work
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
Mark Twain
Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist
Intelligence
Life
Stupidity
Success
Confidence
We must believe in luck; for how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like.
Jean Cocteau
(1889 – 1963) French poet, novelist, playwright, artist & filmmaker
Situations
Success
Luck
All my life affection has been showered on me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
George Bernard Shaw
(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist
People
Self
Success
Affection
In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
Adlai E. Stevenson
(1900 – 1965) diplomat & Democratic politician
America
People
President
Success
Child
risk
If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving definitely isn’t for you.
Steven Wright
(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer
Success
Skydiving
Behind every successful man is a surprised woman.
Maryon Elspeth Pearson
(1901 – 1989) wife of Lester Bowles Pearson, Canadian prime minister
Men
People
Success
Women
Surprise
It’s a little like wrestling a gorilla; you don’t quit when you’re tired—you quit when the gorilla is tired.
Robert Strauss
(1913 – 1975) American actor
Success
Celebrity
Fame
I owe it all to little chocolate donuts.
John Belushi
(1949 – 1982) American comedian, actor & musician
Life
Success
From “Saturday Night Live”
If at first you don't succeed, try try again… then quit; there's no use being a damn fool about it.
W.C. Fields
(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer
Failure
Situations
Success
The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.
Solomon Short
David Gerrold (1944 – ) science fiction author
Entertainment
Music
Success
Tchaikovsky
War of 1812
Winners
Brute force, clumsiness, ignorance, and superstition will always triumph over science, skill, knowledge, and logic.
Hugo's First Rule of Life
Murphy’s Laws
Success
Ed Sullivan will be around as long as someone else has talent.
Fred Allen
(1894 – 1956) American radio comedian
Entertainment
Success
Celebrity
Ed Sullivan
Talent
[Fame] makes you feel permanently like a girl walking past construction workers.
Brad Pitt
(1963 – ) American actor & film producer
Success
Fame
The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.
Nancy Astor
(1879 – 1964) British politician
Situations
Success
Boredom
Life is strange; every so often a good man wins.
Frank Dane
(1902 – 1963) Danish actor
Characteristics
Individuals
Life
People
Success
Good
Authorization for a project will be granted only when none of the authorizers can be blamed if the project fails but when all of the authorizers can claim credit if it succeeds.
Roger’s Rule
Failure
Murphy’s Laws
Success
Approval
Blame
Credit
If at first you don’t succeed, you may be at your level of incompetence already.
Dr. Laurence J. Peter
(1919 – 1990) educator & writer
Success
Incompetence
Under democracy, one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule – and both commonly succeed, and are right.
H.L. Mencken
(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist
Democracy
Government
Politics
Success
Democracy
Unfit to rule
If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?
Jerry Seinfeld
(1954 – ) comedian & television actor
Communication
Failure
Success
Wordplay
The usual drawback to success is that it annoys one’s friends so.
P.G. Wodehouse
(1881 – 1975) English writer & humorist
Success
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