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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.
Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough
Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough
Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted
Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted
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.
For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west,
nor from the south.
For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west,
nor from the south.
A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.
A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.
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.
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.