Hedy Lamarr on Success

Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.

- Hedy Lamarr

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Dale Carnegie on Success

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

- Dale Carnegie

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Benchley on Success

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.

- Robert Benchley

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Picture: from "How to Sleep". The short film became his best-known work, and earned him an Academy Award.

Bismark on Success

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war observe the rules of politeness.

- Otto von Bismark

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Stevenson on Success

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

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Dyer on Success

Critics hang around and wait for others to make mistakes. But the real doers of the world have no time for criticizing others. They're too busy doing, making mistakes, improving, making progress.

- Wayne Dyer

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Honda on Success

Many people dream of success. To me success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection. In fact, success represents the one percent of your work which results only from the 99 percent that is called failure.

- Soichiro Honda

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Jobs on Success

If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pushes you.

- Steve Jobs

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Bill Gates on Success

As we look ahead to the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

- Bill Gates

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Cicero on Success

Genius is fostered by industry.

- Cicero

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Hamilton on Success

Men give me credit for genius but all the genius I have lies in this: When I have a subject in mind I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. The result is what some people call the fruits of genius, whereas it is in reality the fruits of study and labor.

- Alexander Hamilton

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Pliny on Success

It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third perception which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.

- Pliny the Elder

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Drucker on Success

For it is the willingness of people to give of themselves over and above the demands of the job that distinguishes the great from the merely adequate.

- Peter F. Drucker

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Washington on Success

No man who continues to add something to the material, intellectual, and moral well-being of the place in which he lives is left long without proper reward.

- Booker T. Washington

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Jordan on Success

The minute you get away from fundamentals - whether it's proper technique, work ethic, or mental preparation - the bottom can fall out of your game, your schoolwork, whatever you're doing.

- Michael Jordan

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Sarnoff on Success

A career, like a business, must be budgeted. When it is necessary, the budget can be adjusted to meet changing conditions. A life that hasn't a definite plan is likely to become driftwood.

- David Sarnoff

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Steinbeck on Success

People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it.

- John Steinbeck

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Lombardi on Success

The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his committment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.

- Vince Lombardi

Bombeck on Success

If you live with someone with the "Sorry-I'm-Late Syndrome, you must resign yourself to never seeing the bride walk down the aisle, never seeing the opening moments of a movie, and never hearing the national anthem to a ball game.

- Erma Bombeck

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Winget on Leadership

Service must be the ultimate motive of your life. Your work is the way you perform the service. Success, happiness, and prosperity come from having served well.

- Larry Winget