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Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the read more
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.
They never fail who die
In a great cause.
They never fail who die
In a great cause.
Behind every successful man lurks a truly amazed ex-mother-in-law.
Behind every successful man lurks a truly amazed ex-mother-in-law.
These poor mistaken people think they shine, and they do indeed,
but it is as putrefaction shines,--in the dark.
These poor mistaken people think they shine, and they do indeed,
but it is as putrefaction shines,--in the dark.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
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.
