"In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly."
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"Remember the 'Parable of the Talents' in the New Testament? Christ exhorts us to be the best we can be by developing our skills and abilities, by succeeding in all our tasks and endeavors. What better description can there be of capitalism?"
"Only the absolutely determined people succeed."
"You've got to be in a determined state in order to succeed."
"To succeed in life, succeed at being yourself."
"People who succeed are those who know how to mobilize all their physical and mental resources on a goal."
"Efforts can succeed over time, and not trying ensures that the worst will happen."
"Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed."
"If your business isn't the best quality, it will not succeed."
"Sometimes you succeed.... and other times you learn."
"I am not the richest, smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeed because I keep going and going and going."
"Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails."
"The bold adventurer succeeds the best."
"I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed."
"Remember, nothing succeeds without toil."
"I needn't tell you that success and failure prove nothing - the whole thing is a lottery. It's pleasant to succeed; but for a philosophic mind it oughtn't to be very upsetting to fail."
"Whether you think you will succeed or not, you are right."
"Life is a glorious opportunity, if it is used to condition us for eternity. If we fail in this, though we succeed in everything else, our life will have been a failure."
"MBA programs are underwritten by large companies and they succeed at producing future employees of large companies. In that regard, they are doing exactly what they are supposed to be doing."
"Just as eunuchs will never know aesthetics as applied to the selection of beautiful women, so neither will pure rationalists ever know ethics, nor will they ever succeed in defining happiness, for happiness is a thing that is lived and felt, not a thing that is reasoned or defined."