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Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet 'em on your way down.
Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet 'em on your way down.
How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough read more
How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from
them do not at all times agree, read more
Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from
them do not at all times agree, seeing the gods claim to
themselves the right to decide as to the final result.
[Lat., Tametsi prosperitas simul utilitasque consultorum non
obique concordent, quoniam captorum eventus superae sibi
vindicant potestates.]
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
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.
Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.
The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.
The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.
I've had a lot of success; I've had failures, so I learn from the failure.
I've had a lot of success; I've had failures, so I learn from the failure.
