Success Quotes - page 79

Bill Cohen had a will-earned reputation as a thoughtful, decisive Secretary of Defense. When the staff lit up the plasma screens and ran the tapes of the Bright Star exercise, showing how the friendly coalition "Greenland" had defeated the aggressors of "Orangeland", Cohen asked all the right questions. He seemed especially impressed that we had assembled the system using commercially available hardware. Our staff officers and sergeants were on their toes. They answered all the secretary's questions, and he left with a smile on his face. I was proud of the command post- and of the young men and women who had made it such a success. (Tommy Franks)
If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize. View quote
Terry Pratchett
Neither claimed any responsibility for Milton Keynes, but both reported it as a success. View quote
Terry Pratchett
Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice. View quote
Barbra Streisand
He was a terrific writer and was the most responsible for the success and development of Batman. He really was the background for Batman; Bob Kane had ideas while Bill sort of organized them. View quote
Bill Finger
Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it. View quote
A. N. Wilson
Success does not necessarily involve great intellect, or great position, or great wealth; it has to do with inner integrity. Remember that. View quote
Robert Butts
I am very much a Republican. I think that Richard Nixon is a great man and that he is very dedicated to what he does. I had the pleasure of meeting him when I attended the Republican National Convention in Miami. You can really tell that he is willing to go out of his way to help the American people. I am proud to support him as president and I wish him all the success in the world and may I also say that it was an honor to endorse him. View quote
Laraine Day
We have already mentioned what may, perhaps, appear paradoxical to some of our readers, - that the division of labour can be applied with equal success to mental as to mechanical operations, and that it ensures in both the same economy of time. View quote
Charles Babbage
Microfinance is the best example of success in the kinds of systemic institutional areas. View quote
Ela Bhatt
What we really are looking for is self reliance and that is how we should measure success. I don't much like the word empowerment, but self-reliance is the foundation of SEWA's approach,. (Ela Bhatt)
Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead. View quote
Betsey Johnson
If one cannot have success, the next most agreeable thing is failure. View quote
Jean Ingelow
The success of the young entrepreneur will be the key to India's transformation in the new millennium. View quote
Dhirubhai Ambani
We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts. View quote
Gary Player
Sometimes I suspect that our own civilization is not altogether perfect. When I think of the penitentiaries crammed to suffocation, and of the many who ought to be in; of the want, the filth, the depravity of the great cities; of the starvation in the manufacturing centers of Great Britain, and, in fact, of all Europe; when I see women working like beasts of burden, and little children deprived, not simply of education, but of air, light and food, there is a suspicion in my mind that Christian civilization is not a complete and overwhelming success. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
In the progress of mankind, the few have been the nearest right. There have been centuries in which the light seemed to emanate only from a handful of men, while the rest of the world was enveloped in darkness. Some great man leads the way-he becomes the morning star, the prophet of a coming day. Afterward, many millions accept his views. But there are still heights above and beyond; there are other pioneers, and the old day, in comparison with the new, becomes a night. So, we cannot say that success demonstrates either divine origin or supernatural aid. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
Is the success of the Catholic Church a marvel? If this church is of divine origin, if it has been under the especial care, protection and guidance of an Infinite Being, is not its failure far more wonderful than its success? For eighteen centuries it has persecuted and preached, and the salvation of the world is still remote. This is the result, and it may be asked whether it is worth while to try to convert the world to Catholicism. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
But what would become of mass production and its system of financial expansion if technical perfection, durability, social efficiency, and human satisfaction were the guiding aims. The very conditions for current financial success - constantly expanding production and replacement - works against these ends. To ensure the rapid absorption of its immense productivity, megatechnics resorts to a score of different devices: consumer credit, installment buying, multiple packaging, non-functional designs, meretricious novelties, shoddy materials, defective workmanship, built-in fragility, or forced obsolescence through frequent arbitrary changes of fashion. Without constant enticement and inveiglement by advertising, production would slow down and level off to normal replacement demand. Otherwise many products could reach a plateau of efficient design which would call for only minimal changes from year to year. View quote
Lewis Mumford
A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success. View quote
Alec Waugh
Education spending will be most effective if it relies on parental choice & private initiative -- the building blocks of success throughout our society. (Milton Friedman)
After the fall of communism, everybody in the world agreed that socialism was a failure. Everybody in the world, more or less, agreed that capitalism was a success. And every capitalist country in the world apparently deduced from that what the West needed was more socialism. View quote
Milton Friedman
The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
Say, ‘This misery that I am suffering is of my own doing, and that very thing proves that it will have to be undone by me alone.' That which I created, I can demolish; that which is created by someone else, I shall never be able to destroy. Therefore, stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creators of your own destiny. All the strength and success you want is within ourselves. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
When you give success to stupid people, it makes them more stupid sometimes and not more intelligent. View quote
Arsène Wenger