Success and Failure
376 aphorisms · 9 comments
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tiny.ag/jb6usc1h · ★★☆☆ Fair (102 ratings) · submitted 1997
Reach for the moon and if you miss at least you will land among the stars.
tiny.ag/p0z9jdbr · ★★☆☆ Fair (101 ratings) · submitted 1997
Silverman's Law: If Murphy's Law can go wrong, it will.
tiny.ag/tkee56g3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (121 ratings) · submitted 1997
Small minds are the first to condemn great ideas.
tiny.ag/s1xthnqz · ★★☆☆ Fair (95 ratings) · submitted 1997
Smile, it makes people wonder what you are thinking.
tiny.ag/qwjktm2e · ★★☆☆ Fair (108 ratings) · submitted 1997
Some day my boat will come in, and with my luck I'll be at the airport.
tiny.ag/yojpg6ut · ★★☆☆ Fair (103 ratings) · submitted 1997
Some days you're the dog, some days you're the hydrant.
tiny.ag/oxjpvl03 · ★★☆☆ Fair (89 ratings) · submitted 1997
Some people dream of success, while others wake up and work hard at it.
tiny.ag/sm4gracz · ★★☆☆ Fair (97 ratings) · submitted 1997
Strategy: A long-range plan whose merit cannot be evaluated until sometime after those creating it have left the organization.
tiny.ag/lasqyfqt · ★★☆☆ Fair (80 ratings) · submitted 1997
Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
tiny.ag/k5r69m8l · ★★☆☆ Fair (779 ratings) · submitted 1997
Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/zan4dyde · ★★☆☆ Fair (869 ratings) · submitted 1997
tiny.ag/uqvndhdp · ★★☆☆ Fair (901 ratings) · submitted 1997
Become addicted to constant and neverending self-improvement.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/wlihbcon · ★★☆☆ Fair (87 ratings) · submitted 1997
"It can't happen here" is number 1 on the list of famous last words.
tiny.ag/60xih5fm · ★★☆☆ Fair (100 ratings) · submitted 1997
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
tiny.ag/y5vkzeae · ★★☆☆ Fair (320 ratings) · submitted 1997
An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.
Stephen R. Covey, Principle-Centered Leadership, in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/dvyytf1b · ★★☆☆ Fair (70 ratings) · submitted 1997
No one really knows enough to be a pessimist.
tiny.ag/shpmv1fs · ★★☆☆ Fair (323 ratings) · submitted 1997
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake.
tiny.ag/u1iblda0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (66 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is a mistake to allow any mechanical object to realize you are in a hurry.
tiny.ag/ohvcxj98 · ★★☆☆ Fair (61 ratings) · submitted 1997
Imbesi's Law with Freeman's Extension: In order for something to become clean, something else must become dirty; but you can get everything dirty without getting anything clean.
tiny.ag/uc5f23qi · ★★☆☆ Fair (284 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
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