I'll keep it short and sweet -- Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life's A Great Balancing Act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed) Kid, you'll move mountains.
The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try nothing and succeed.
To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
Death … It’s the only thing we haven’t succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Part of the ability to keep writing over the years comes down to living with the expectation of disappointment. It's the exact opposite of capitalism. In capitalism you want your business to succeed, and to the degree it does your energy increases, and you go out and buy an even bigger business. In writing it's almost the exact opposite. You just want to keep the store going. You're not going to do as well this year as last year probably, but nonetheless let's keep the store going. What ruins most writers of talent is that they don't get enough experience, so their novels tend to develop a certain paranoid perfection.