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“Success is more than luck. You have to believe in yourself and make it happen.” Richard Branson, “Screw It, Let's Do It” - 2006

“To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.” Isaac Asimov, “Foundation” - 1951

“Congratulations! Today is your day. You're off to Great Places! You're off and away!” Dr. Seuss, “Oh, The Places You'll Go!” - 1990

“We can succeed only by concert.” Abraham Lincoln, “State of the Union Address” - 1 December 1862

“Have regular hours for work and play, make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life become a beautiful...” Louisa May Alcott, “Little Women” - 1868

“Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom.” Bertrand Russell, “The Conquest of Happiness” - 1930

“Nothing so likely to make a man's fortune as virtue.” Benjamin Franklin, “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin” - 1791

“In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.” Malcolm X, “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” - 1965

“It’s not that simple: to be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running; and, if you have a good team around you and more than your fair share of luck, you might make something happen.” Richard Branson, “Losing My Virginity” - 1998

“There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it...” William Shakespeare, “Julius Caesar” - 1623

“There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.” Herman Melville, “Moby-Dick” - 1851

“Any man who has met with success, if he will be frank with himself, must admit that there has been a big element of fortune in the success.” Theodore Roosevelt, “Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography” - 1913

“Where others have failed, I will not fail.” Jules Verne, “Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea” - 1870

“Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy's purpose.” Sun Tzu, “The Art of War” - 5th century BC

“To be successful, however, you must be brutal with yourself and focus on the flaws.” Arnold Schwarzenegger, “Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story” - 2012

“Be hungry for success, hungry to make your mark, hungry to be seen and to be heard and to have an effect. And as you move up and become successful, make sure also to be hungry for helping others.” Arnold Schwarzenegger, “Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story” - 2012

“Whatever your goal is you will never succeed unless you let go of your fears and fly.” Richard Branson, “Screw It, Let's Do It” - 2006

“if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” Henry David Thoreau, “Walden” - 1854

“It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish” J. R. R. Tolkien, “The Fellowship of the Ring” - 1954

“I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I’m not going to worry about them. I’m dreaming the hardest.'” Marilyn Monroe, “My Story” - 1974

“If you try and lose then it isn’t your fault. But if you don’t try and we lose, then it’s all your fault.” Orson Scott Card, “Ender's Game” - 1985

“Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.” Sun Tzu, “The Art of War” - 5th century BC

“The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.” Charles Dickens, “Great Expectations” - 1861

“Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.” Albert Camus, “The Fall” - 1956

“it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.” John Maynard Keynes, “The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money” - 1936

“I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time” Charles Dickens, “David Copperfield” - 1850

“Success is as dangerous as failure.” Lao Tzu, “Tao Te Ching” - 4th century BC

“anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business—you know they're doing something that you aren't.” Malcolm X, “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” - 1965

“Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague.” Honoré de Balzac, “Father Goriot” - 1835

“But screw your courage to the sticking-place, and we'll not fail.” William Shakespeare, “Macbeth” - 1623

“I would have men of such constancy put to sea, that their business might be everything, and their intent everywhere; for that's it that always makes a good voyage of nothing.” William Shakespeare, “Twelfth Night” - 1623

“Such a nature, tickled with good success, disdains the shadow which he treads on at noon.” William Shakespeare, “Coriolanus” - 1623

“He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding.” William Shakespeare, “Troilus and Cressida” - 1609

“He was a simple man who didn’t feel inferior about his lack of education and, even more amazing, showed no superiority because he had succeeded despite that lack.” Maya Angelou, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” - 1969

“It takes two to make a very great career: the man who is great, and the man-almost rarer-who is great enough to see greatness and say so.” Ayn Rand, “The Fountainhead” - 1943

“If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success.” Confucius, “Analects”

“The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration;— this may be called perfect virtue.” Confucius, “Analects”

“But, as often happens, a crime committed with extraordinary audacity is more successful than others.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, “The Brothers Karamazov” - 1880

“If I die prematurely, at any rate I shall be saved from being bored by my own success.” Samuel Butler, “The Note-Books of Samuel Butler” - 1912

“The success of our economy has always depended, not just on the size of our gross domestic product, but on the reach of our prosperity, on our ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart, not out of charity, but because it is the surest...” Barack Obama, “Inaugural Address” - 20 January 2009

“You can be sure of succeeding in your attacks if you only attack places which are undefended. You can ensure the safety of your defense if you only hold positions that cannot be attacked.” Sun Tzu, “The Art of War” - 5th century BC

“Fun is at the core of the way I like to do business and it has been key to everything I’ve done from the outset. More than any other element, fun is the secret of Virgin’s success.” Richard Branson, “Losing My Virginity” - 1998

“There are significant differences between the American and European versions of capitalism. The American traditionally emphasizes the need for limited government, light regulation, low taxes and maximum labour-market flexibility. Its success has...” Margaret Thatcher, “The Path to Power” - 1995

“Let every nation know... whether it wishes us well or ill... that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.” John F. Kennedy, “Inaugural Address” - 20 January 1961

“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature—it requires, in fact, the nature of a true Individualist—to sympathise with a friend's success.” Oscar Wilde, “The Soul of Man under Socialism” - 1891

“I’m going to keep going until I succeed — or I die. Don’t think I don’t know how this might end. I’ve known it for years.” J. K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” - 2007

“Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.” Mark Twain, “Following the Equator” - 1897

“Every successful man is more or less a selfish man.” Thomas Hardy, “Jude the Obscure” - 1895

“People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.” Charles Bukowski, “Factotum” - 1975

“the too great care we take of our bodies is the only obstacle to the success of those projects which require rapid decision, and vigorous and determined execution.” Alexandre Dumas, “The Count of Monte Cristo” - 1845

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