Greatest Success Quotes - Page 5

• The greatest success goes to the person who is not afraid to fail in front of even the largest audience.

  David Packard

  Entrepreneur, Failing, Not Afraid

  "Bill & Dave: How Hewlett and Packard Built the World's Greatest Company". Book by Michael Shawn Malone (p. 393), 2007.

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• America, in the eyes of the world, typifies above all else this quality of initiative. The greatest successes are nearly all the fruit of initiative. Why do we hold in such high esteem the achievements of the Wright brothers? Because they were illustrious examples of initiative and tenacity. And ideas are born of initiative, the children of men and women of initiative. Advancement is applied initiative. Don't imitate. Initiate.

  B. C. Forbes

  Brother, Children, Eye

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• I should just put it bluntly, because we're all sort of friends here now - it's exceedingly likely that my greatest success is behind me. Oh, so Jesus, what a thought! You know that's the kind of thought that could lead a person to start drinking gin at nine o'clock in the morning, and I don't want to go there.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Jesus, Morning, Stupid

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• The greatest success is creating whatever you want without conditions. I don't do commissions unless I really want to, because it's like having a job.

  Richard MacDonald

  Jobs, Creating, Want

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• And this is the best success I can dream for my life: to have spread a new vision of the world.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Dream, Vision, World

  "Sammlung".

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• It's my greatest success. Women did not vote in Italy until 1946. A good friend and I put together a group of women to protest this. I was very young, just a girl. We went to the Viminale [home of the Ministry of the Interior] and spoke to the chair of the ministry board. Thanks to our initiative, we got the bureaucracy rolling on giving women the right to vote. I have to thank my father for this. He was in Geneva at the League of Nations, and women voted there. He thought it was absurd that women didn't vote in his country yet.

  Giovanna Cau

  Girl, Country, Father

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You could argue that [the decline of public schools] is one of the major disasters in our lifetimes. We took one of the greatest successes in the history of the earth and turned it into one of the greatest disasters in the history of the earth.

  Charlie Munger

  School, Earth, Arguing

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• If you use disappointments as sort of mid- semester exams, for learning, you will learn that every disappointment you overcome makes you stronger- and wiser. The greatest success stories have been lived by those who had to grow strong and wise in that very way.

  Loretta Young

  Wise, Strong, Disappointment

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• Satan's greatest success is in making people think they have plenty of time before they die to consider their eternal welfare.

  John Owen

  Thinking, People, Satan

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