Don’t Cling to Your Mistakes
“Don’t cling to a mistake just because it took you a long time to make it.” —Aubrey de Grey
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Better to Fail with Honor Than Succeed by Fraud
“Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.” —Sophocles
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How to Succeed at Acting According to Spencer Tracy
“Know your lines and don’t bump into the furniture.” —Spencer Tracy
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Booker T. Washington on How to Achieve Excellence
“Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.” —Booker T. Washington
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Why You Should Kill Doubt Early
“Doubt kills more dreams than failure.” —Richard Branson
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Definition of Success
Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much...
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Ask Better Questions
Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.
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Success Is No Accident
Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you...
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Be Different Than Your Competition
“You can’t look at the competition and say you’re going to do it better. You have to look at the...
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Stick With It
I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.
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Desire for Success
We only want what success we can get despite encouraging others to share our general views about reality.
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Be Irrationally Passionate
The people who succeed are irrationally passionate about something.
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If you don’t love something, you’re not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status...
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I didn’t get to where I am by going after mediocre opportunities.
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Like Warren, I had a considerable passion to get rich, not because I wanted Ferraris — I wanted the independence....
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I want to put a ding in the universe.
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Innovation is the only way to win.
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What are the secret of success? One word answer: rationality.
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I’m as proud of many of the things we haven’t done as the things we have done. Innovation is saying...
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Failure Leads to Success
Failure is enriching. It’s also important to accept that you’ll make mistakes – it’s how you build your expertise.
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Persevere to Succeed
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.
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I am saddened, not by Microsoft’s success — I have no problem with their success. They’ve earned their success, for...
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