#succeed

Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#feel #friends #resentful #succeed #superior

I took the hardest possible route that you could take, and I still overcame and succeeded. ↗

— David Allan Coe

#hardest #i #overcame #possible #route

Despite my emphasis on technology, I do not view laws as inherently evil. My goals are political ones, even if my techniques are not. The only way to fundamentally succeed is by changing existing laws. If I rejected all help from the political arena I would inevitably fail. ↗

— Bram Cohen

#changing #despite #emphasis #even #evil

QuickBooks - the very fact that we could even dream to make something in the business arena, and that it would then succeed - was a total revolution to me. ↗

— Scott Cook

#business #could #dream #even #fact

When you're not concerned with succeeding, you can work with complete freedom. ↗

— Larry David

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I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed. ↗

— Jesse Ventura

#allow #america #believe #choose #get

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. ↗

— Mark Twain

#crank #idea #new #new idea #person

But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#fail #international #life #national life #noted

Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us. ↗

— Maude Adams

#best #day #enough #hard #hard thing

Just as predatory animals follow a similar general design and behave in similar ways, so organizations, especially those in competition with one another, must follow certain design principles if they are to succeed and prevail. ↗

— Robert Shea

#behave #certain #competition #design #especially