#success

Do I attribute my success to hard work, or sunscreen? If you want the truth, maybe you should ask my new albino secretary. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#ask #hard-work #secretary #success #sunscreen

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#i #invent #proof #sale #sell

It's the thing that you do well that brings you to prominence. The very thing that brings you to success can also be like a curse, because then people think that's all you can do. ↗

— Christine Baranski

#because #brings #curse #like #people

When a business becomes successful seemingly overnight, no one knows about all the months and years you've invested, all the projects you've tried before that didn't work. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#becomes #before #business #invested #knows

I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful. ↗

— Shania Twain

#being different #criticized #different #doing #find

Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole. ↗

— Vicki Baum

#ice #lonely #north #north pole #pole

You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success. ↗

— Zig Ziglar

#pay #price #success #you

Throughout my career I have been pretty successful, I've played for some pretty big teams, represented my country quite a few times, and played for managers without sentiment. ↗

— David Beckham

#big #career #country #few #i

I'm glad I've never been so successful that I couldn't stop doing one thing. I've kind of been able to just kick it along and switch around. ↗

— Kate Beckinsale

#along #around #been #doing #glad

For the rest of history, for most of us, our bright promise will always fall short of being actualised; it will never earn us bountiful sums of money or beget exemplary objects or organisations.... Most of us stand poised at the edge of brilliance, haunted by the knowledge of our proximity, yet still demonstrably on the wrong side of the line, our dealings with reality undermined by a range of minor yet critical psychological flaws (a little too much optimism, an unprocessed rebelliousness, a fatal impatience or sentimentality). We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or a bicycle. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#failure #flaws #promise #success #money