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" People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to. "

George Allen, Sr.

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" Success is no longer about changing strategies more often, but having the agility to execute multiple strategies concurrently. And success requires CEOs to develop the right leadership capabilities, workforce skills, and corporate cultures to support digital transformation. "

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" Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it. "

" While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap. "

" If you are a lawyer, and you want to take on easier cases, you can prosecute traffic violations or something. You'd have a very high rate of success, and you probably could sleep more easily at night. But that's not what drives me. "

" Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed. "

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" To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. "

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" It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success. "

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" Maintaining spirituality and humanism are the keys to success. It's a balance. "

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" Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years. "

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" The success of I Love Lucy is something that happens only once in a lifetime, if you are fortunate enough to have it happen at all. "

" When you're an entertainer, it's hard not to compare yourself with the next person's success. But you have to trust your own journey and your strengths and believe in yourself. I think that's the best place to start. "

" No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex. "

Susan B. Anthony

" Real success is not, like, materialistic. It's being where you want to be when you want to be; just living your life how you feel; having an ultimate goal and being able to accomplish it. "

" Truman is now seen as a near-great president because he put in place the containment doctrine boosted by the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan and NATO, which historians now see as having been at the center of American success in the cold war. "

" When people have success, one of two things happen. They either get really satisfied and want to keep thinking about it and talking about what they did, or the success becomes a little addictive, and it makes them want to keep having more. "

" Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

" You can't improve what you can't measure, and liberals have resisted any kind of meaningful measurement of success in the classroom for decades. Instead of focusing on the three R's, liberals have thrown up a barrage of silly things designed to distract us all from their awful stewardship of the schools. "

" Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that's probably the biggest key to success. "

" You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent, the surly and the badly behaved until bad behavior is recognized for the language it is: the vocabulary of the deeply wounded and of those whose burdens are more than they can bear. "

" In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success. "

" The effort always remains that my new film outdoes my last in terms of performance and gets better box office success. Box office is the sole reason why I do films. "

" Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa. "

" My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain. "

" Academic success depends on research and publications. "

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" Success stems from the producer creating the optimal conditions for the filmmaker's own creative process. Not from steering the filmmaker through a one-size-fits-all approach. "

" If you are not moving closer to what you want, you probably aren't doing enough asking. And you're probably not asking the single most important question that can help you achieve a higher level of success and personal fulfillment: How am I doing? "

" Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack. "

" I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. "

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