Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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tiny.ag/8ebocmyu · ★★☆☆ Fair (174 ratings) · submitted 1997
Murphy's Law: If anything can go wrong, it will.
tiny.ag/sdc7t2fc · ★★☆☆ Fair (167 ratings) · submitted 1997
If there is a wrong way to do something, then someone will do it.
tiny.ag/yevckcm5 · ★★☆☆ Fair (124 ratings) · submitted 1997
There are a lot of ways to become a failure, but never taking a chance is the most successful.
tiny.ag/mnjs1wvi · ★★☆☆ Fair (108 ratings) · submitted 1997
There are people who make things happen, those who watch what happens, and those who wonder what happened.
tiny.ag/tp4xrqcg · ★★☆☆ Fair (113 ratings) · submitted 1997
There are two types of dirt: the dark kind, which is attracted to light objects, and the light kind, which is attracted to dark objects.
tiny.ag/pb2gjrze · ★★☆☆ Fair (179 ratings) · submitted 1997
To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.
tiny.ag/r3bhbgos · ★★☆☆ Fair (192 ratings) · submitted 1997
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
tiny.ag/uijwr4e3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (221 ratings) · submitted 1997
To err is human, to forgive unusual.
tiny.ag/hhdwpvkc · ★★☆☆ Fair (182 ratings) · submitted 1997
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of them absent.
tiny.ag/uxknfqoq · ★★☆☆ Fair (358 ratings) · submitted 1997
Try to get all of your posthumous medals in advance.
Unknown, in Life and Death and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/tbra32py · ★★☆☆ Fair (306 ratings) · submitted 1997
Use soft words and hard arguments.
tiny.ag/hzol4xrd · ★★☆☆ Fair (171 ratings) · submitted 1997
Watch for big problems; they disguise big opportunities.
tiny.ag/k41czawu · ★★☆☆ Fair (198 ratings) · submitted 1997
Weiler's Law: Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
tiny.ag/qhi9mj1t · ★★☆☆ Fair (146 ratings) · submitted 1997
Wethern's Law: Assumption is the mother of all screw-ups.
tiny.ag/jlmjkna4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (165 ratings) · submitted 1997
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
tiny.ag/xjrw4zcp · ★★☆☆ Fair (187 ratings) · submitted 1997
While anyone can admit to themselves they were wrong, the true test is admission to someone else.
tiny.ag/f65xdmkd · ★★☆☆ Fair (182 ratings) · submitted 1997
You are not what you think you are, you are not what they think you are, but you could be what you think they think you are.
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