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Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.
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Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character.
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Study the situation thoroughly, go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you and the consequences which can and may follow from each course. Pick out the course which gives the most promise and go ahead.
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Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.
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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.
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Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
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Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.
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Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.
Het korte maar wonderbaarlijke leven van Oscar Wao (2008) 136 -
Successful men usually snatch success from seeming failure. If they know there is such a word as defeat they will not admit it. They may be whipped, but they are not aware of it. That is why they succeed.
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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.
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Sum-totally, we find that the physical constituent of wealth-energy-cannot decrease and that the metaphysical constituent-know-how-can only increase. This is to say that everytime we use our wealth it increases.
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.
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Superciliousness is not safe after all, because a person who forms the habit of wearing it may some day find his lower lip grown permanently projected beyond the upper, so that he can't get it back, and must go through life looking like the King of Spain.
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Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.
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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.
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Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more easily than their words.
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Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles to rid us of our time, of that time which never can return.
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Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere.
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Surveys have shown going back as far as you and I can remember that people have perceived a leftward tilt in the basic coverage that they get on TV news.
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