Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
—George Bernard Shaw
Showing posts with label success. Show all posts
Showing posts with label success. Show all posts
Sunday, March 01, 2026
Post #3324
Sunday, February 22, 2026
Sunday, September 19, 2021
Monday, September 03, 2018
Post #2646
Success depends on three things: who says it, what he says, how he says it; and of these three things, what he says is the least important.
—John Morely
Friday, May 05, 2017
Post #2330
Two sources of success are known: wisdom and effort; make them both thine own, if thou wouldst haply rise.
—Māgha
—Māgha
Wednesday, September 02, 2015
Friday, February 20, 2015
Post #1755
I asked an experienced elder who had profited by his knowledge of the world, "What course should I pursue to obtain prosperity?" He replied, "Contentment—if you are able, practise contentment."
—Khajah Selman
—Khajah Selman
Friday, October 24, 2014
Post #1670
You don't learn to hold your own in this world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.
—George Bernard Shaw
—George Bernard Shaw
Thursday, October 02, 2014
Post #1654
No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
—Alfred Lord Tennyson
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—Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Thursday, September 11, 2014
Post #1639
I believe the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master of that line.
—Andrew Carnegie
—Andrew Carnegie
Monday, June 16, 2014
Post #1576
The better a man is acquainted with the details of the business in which he is engaged, the greater is his chance for success. In truth, the man who is ignorant at least has no right to expect success. Ignorance may take the risk and occasionally win, but it is not once in ten times.
—Samuel H. Terry
—Samuel H. Terry
Friday, June 13, 2014
Post #1574
There is no secret about amassing wealth. All you have to do is attend to business and go ahead: except one thing, and that is, never tell what you are going to do until you have done it.
—Cornelius Vanderbilt
—Cornelius Vanderbilt
Friday, May 30, 2014
Post #1560
One line, — a line fraught with instruction,— includes the secret of Lord Kenyon's final success,— he was prudent, he was patient, and he persevered.
—Willaim Charles Townsend
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Post #1524
Do not expect the ship to return loaded with precious treasures, without being exposed to the stormy deep.
—Pietro Metastasio
—Pietro Metastasio
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Thursday, July 11, 2013
Post #1294
Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.
—Horace
—Horace
Tuesday, July 02, 2013
Post #1288
Let all the learned say what they can, 'tis ready money that makes the man.
—William Sommerville
—William Sommerville
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Post #1278
If you live as nature bids you, you will never be poor; if to obtain the good report of men, you will never be rich.
—Seneca
Friday, June 07, 2013
Thursday, June 06, 2013
Post #1270
The growth of a large business is merely a survival of the fittest...The American beauty rose can be produced in the splendour and fragrance which bring cheer to its beholder only by sacrificing the early buds which grow up around it.
—John D. Rockefeller
—John D. Rockefeller
A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.
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