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Be commonplace and creeping, any you attain all things.
[Fr., Mediocre et rampant, et l'on arrive a tout.]
Be commonplace and creeping, any you attain all things.
[Fr., Mediocre et rampant, et l'on arrive a tout.]
Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.
Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.
If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or
can make better chairs read more
If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or
can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs,
than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his
house, tho it be in the woods. And if a man knows the law,
people will find it out, tho he live in a pine shanty, and resort
to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the
prisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint landscape, and convey
into oils and ochers all the enchantments of spring or autumn; or
can liberate or intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious
songs and verses, 'tis certain that the secret can not be kept:
the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and
tens and fifties to his door.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into read more
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.
Formula for success: Rise early, work hard, strike oil.
Formula for success: Rise early, work hard, strike oil.
To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.
To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.
Nothing succeeds like success.
[Fr., Rien ne reussit comme le succes.]
Nothing succeeds like success.
[Fr., Rien ne reussit comme le succes.]
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.
Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.
