"Successful people fail often, and, worth noting, learn more from that failure than everyone else."
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"You succeed because you've chosen to be confident. It's not really useful to require yourself to be successful before you're able to become confident."
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"One way to think about running a successful business is to figure out what the least you can do is, and do that."
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"I want to be successful, but I don't really have what it takes to do it comfortably."
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"What works for men does not always work for women, because success and likability are positively correlated for men and negatively correlated for women. That's what the research shows. As a man gets more successful, everyone is rooting for him. As a woman gets more successful, both men and women like her less."
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"As a man gets more successful, powerful, he is more liked, and as a woman gets more successful, she is less liked, and that's true by both women and men."
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""I want to be always happy," Maxine Hong Kingston announces . But, as this interview makes clear, for me, it was the desire to write poetry that kept me discontented, if not depressed and unhappy, through what many casual biographers have characterized as successful and productive decades."
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"Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful."
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"Walt Disney had a very clear sense of why. He was about happiness. Remember when Disney was founded, it was during war. People said that life sucked. And he said, "No." He was an eternal optimist who said: "Life is beautiful. It's about giving. It's about family." Look what happened. His cause grew and people committed themselves to helping him grow the Disney why and it was hugely successful."
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"Sometimes spending time with someone who is perceived as 'successful' can make us feel less successful."
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"Perhaps whatever there is in my work that may be really interesting to others and surely what is interesting to me, is the result of a sometimes successful effort to free myself from any idea that what I produce must be art."
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"Successful innovation has consistently proved to be fluid and flexible, fast and furious - that is, passionate."
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"The "problem" is that Comic-Con is so damned successful. People who are there seem to have a wonderful time. The very size of it makes it exciting. Wherever you look, there's something exciting. The attendees are always looking around for a familiar face. It's either 'There's a movie star!' Or, 'There's a TV star!' Or, 'There's the guy who drew the Green Lantern!' It means so much to the fans. It makes them feel like they're where it's happening. It's like Woodstock."
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"If there's ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan, I think it was the Soviet experience."
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"I didn't start talk radio until '95 in L.A. The show was very successful, and they actually tried to syndicate it nationally, but I couldn't get stations. It was like, "We don't care that she's funny and she's got great ratings. She's liberal!""
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"A successful business maximizes the present value of future earnings. The first requirement, therefore, of business success is sustainable profits. One-time winnings, in business as in casinos, are disappointing. We expect more from our investments than that."
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"I've been all over the world on my own because, as a scientist, you travel a great deal if your work is reasonably successful or published. I get invitations to go to all sorts of strange countries where I would mostly be by myself and just meet other people there, instead of having travelling companions."
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"To become successful, first learn how to be happy. Too many think that the route to happiness is to get successful"
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"To be successful in business and life, spot the possibilities while others look for problems."
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"Great performers are preparing and practicing for a winning day while everyone else is still asleep."
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