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For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west,
nor from the south.
For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west,
nor from the south.
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from
them do not at all times agree, read more
Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from
them do not at all times agree, seeing the gods claim to
themselves the right to decide as to the final result.
[Lat., Tametsi prosperitas simul utilitasque consultorum non
obique concordent, quoniam captorum eventus superae sibi
vindicant potestates.]
If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or
can make better chairs read more
If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or
can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs,
than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his
house, tho it be in the woods. And if a man knows the law,
people will find it out, tho he live in a pine shanty, and resort
to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the
prisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint landscape, and convey
into oils and ochers all the enchantments of spring or autumn; or
can liberate or intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious
songs and verses, 'tis certain that the secret can not be kept:
the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and
tens and fifties to his door.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about read more
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
Success is determined by those whom prove the impossible, possible.
Success is determined by those whom prove the impossible, possible.
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.
Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
