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One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures
without making a mistake.
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures
without making a mistake.
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
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.
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no "top.".
The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no "top.".
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
Behind every successful man lurks a truly amazed ex-mother-in-law.
Behind every successful man lurks a truly amazed ex-mother-in-law.
The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.
The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.
