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• Successful is the person who has lived well, laughed often and loved much, who has gained the respect of children, who leaves the world better than they found it, who has never lacked appreciation for the earth's beauty, who never fails to look for the best in others or give the best of themselves.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Appreciation, Children, Giving

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• Life is a series of decisions that cuts off infinite possibilities at every turn. Most people look at that as a sad unfortunate fact of life. Successful people see it as a source of tremendous power.

  Mark Joyner

  Cutting, People, Decision

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• Since 1789 history has had a new perspective, revolution being a successful revolt, and revolt a revolution that has failed.

  Andre Malraux

  Perspective, Revolution, Revolt

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• You have to keep challenging yourself. I've always tried to do that, and I'm not saying I've always been successful. Maybe I've rewritten the same song; it's inevitable, but I've always been mindful of taking the writing somewhere else. You can't stick in your little comfort zone.

  Paul Weller

  Song, Writing, Somewhere Else

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• I was somebody who was 14 years old and who got an opportunity to do a job where I could make money, and, most important, to go to school and to help my family financially. And luckily I was successful in my job, thank God. And there were a lot of people my age who didn't have that freedom I had and I'm grateful.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Jobs, Grateful, School

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• A successful business is a good way to create significant wealth, but not every business will grow into a News Corporation or a McDonalds.

  Paul Clitheroe

  Mcdonalds, News, Corporations

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• Learn as much as you can about your proposed business. Ask questions. Join industry associations. Study successful competitors carefully.

  Paul Clitheroe

  Association, Study, Competitors

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• The good music companies do an amazing thing. They have people who can pick the person that's gonna be successful out of 5,000 candidates. And there's not enough information to do that - it's an intuitive process.

  Steve Jobs

  People, Information, Enough

  "Steve Jobs: The Apple Co-Founder's Most Memorable Quotes", www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 6, 2011.

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• It's very simple: The more successful you are, the more you'll earn. But if you're not successful, you will not earn a dime.

  Steve Jobs

  Simple, Dimes, Ifs

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• The growth of The Body Shop is testimony to the fact that you don't need to waste money on costly advertising campaigns to be successful. Instead, we've always relied on word of mouth and stories.

  Anita Roddick

  Growth, Needs, Campaigns

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• You can take the smartest kid at Wharton, the one who gets straight A's and has a 170 IQ, and if he doesn't have the instincts, he'll never be a successful entrepreneur.

  Donald Trump

  Kids, Entrepreneur, Instinct

  Donald J. Trump, Tony Schwartz (2009). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.45, Ballantine Books

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• If you are a successful actor, which is what I am, then you tend to get labelled very quickly and easily.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Actors, Ifs

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• Successful films are very dangerous things.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Film, Dangerous, Dangerous Things

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• The parts I've been most successful in are the ones I've desperately, desperately wanted.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Wanted

  "The three stages of Kristin" by Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2007.

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• The true measure of a successful leader is their ability to discover the hidden talent in those they lead and challenge them to achieve greatness. If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you are right.

  Henry Ford

  Greatness, Thinking, Leader

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• I made so many mistakes in my first successful business I'm almost embarrassed to recount them.

  James Altucher

  Mistake, Firsts, Made

  "7 Things Mediocre Entrepreneurs Can Do To Succeed" by James Altucher, www.businessinsider.com. October 3, 2012.

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• One of the problems when you become successful is that jealousy and envy inevitably follow. There are people - I categorize them as life's losers - who get their sense of accomplishment and achievement from trying to stop others. As far as I'm concerned, if they had any real ability, they wouldn't be fighting me, they'd be doing something constructive themselves.

  Donald Trump

  Real, Fighting, People

  "Trump: The Art of the Deal". Book by Donald Trump and Tony Schwartz, November 1, 1987.

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• I don't think successful musicians were really put on this planet in order to have a great time, pat themselves on the back and say, 'Oh, what a clever boy I am!' I think that, like most artists, we were put on the planet to suffer just a little. And we do.

  Ian Anderson

  Clever, Artist, Boys

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• People that are brilliant and successful, we think they've just always been that way. That's not the case. Most of them have had some tough adversity in their life. It's prepared them. I've never felt like you could develop character without adversity.

  Bobby Bowden

  Character, Adversity, Thinking

  Interview with Chad Bonham, christiansportsjournal.com. October 5, 2016.

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• To build a successful business, you must start small and dream big.

  Aliko Dangote

  Dream, Tenacity, Bigs

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• A mathematical problem should be difficult in order to entice us, yet not completely inaccessible, lest it mock at our efforts. It should be to us a guide post on the mazy paths to hidden truths, and ultimately a reminder of our pleasure in the successful solution.

  David Hilbert

  Order, Effort, Path

  "Mathematical Problems". Lecture delivered before the International Congress of Mathematicians at Paris, translated by Maby Winton Newson, mathcs.clarku.edu. 1900.

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• As a kid I had dreams about being successful, thinking it would be cool. Then, when I was in my 20s, I really thought I had it much more figured out than I do now.

  Ben Stiller

  Dream, Kids, Thinking

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• Working hard may not make you rich, but it should make you successful.

  Margaret Thatcher

  May, Rich, Should

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• Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.

  Florence Nightingale

  Jobs, Starting, Hard

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• Think, the successful idea is always in your mind. Think it out.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Thinking, Ideas, Mind

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2013). “You Can If You Think You Can”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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