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The image of success is important, but even more important is the ability to focus on solutions instead of on problems. That way, you'll never be thinking like a loser, and you probably won't look like one either.

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

The Internet will help achieve "friction free capitalism" by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other.

The insolence of base minds in success is boundless; and would scarce admit of a comparison, did not they themselves furnish us with one in the degrees of their abjection when evil returns upon them.

The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants.

The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.

The key to success in every field is to hate failure in every way.

The key to success is not to seek for a particular key to success!

The key to success is not purely who's the smartest, who's the best, but also who can say with conviction, "I deserve it." The entire concept is wrapped up in one phrase: "Why not me?

The key to success is to risk thinking unconventional thoughts. Convention is the enemy of progress.

The last few years I've been doing the Middle East thing, and it's a tough decision whether to go there and try and knock off some events as a European Tour member, this year I think overall looking at my results, I played a little bit better on the West Coast than I have in the Middle East, so that was another determining factor for coming back here to an event that I have had some success in the past.

The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.

The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.

The lesser evil is also evil.

The last thing you want to do is finish playing or doing anything and wish you would have worked harder.

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

The life without men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.

The lesson here is very simple. But it is striking how often it is overlooked. We are so caught in the myths of the best and the brightest and the self-made that we think outliers spring naturally from the earth. We look at the young Bill Gates and marvel that our world allowed that thirteen-year-old to become a fabulously successful entrepreneur. But that's the wrong lesson. Our world only allowed one thirteen-year-old unlimited access to a time sharing terminal in 1968. If a million teenagers had been given the same opportunity, how many more Microsofts would we have today?

The less you are like others, the less others will like you.

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

The main reason people fail is they become attached to others who hold them back. Letting go of others and going forward may seem like a lonely and impossible task, but I assure you it is not.

The major difference between the big shot and the little shot is the big shot is just a little shot who kept on shooting.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.

The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.

The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.

The man who has the largest capacity for work and thought is the man who is bound to succeed.

The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.

The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.

The man who keeps busy helping the man below him won't have time to envy the man above him.

The mark of a successful organization isn't whether or not it has problems, its whether it has the same problems it had last year.

The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains.

The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ceaseless realization of yoga, of union; not on the side of the canvas where it is blank, but on the side where the picture is being painted.

The marketplace obliges men, whether they will or not, in pursuing their own selfish interests, to connect the general good with their own individual success.

The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation.

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

The men of the press, who despised their own profession, did not know why they were enjoying it today. One of them, a young man with years of notorious success behind him and a cynical look of twice his age, said suddenly, 'I know what I'd like to be: I wish I could be a man who covers news!'

The measure of a man is what happens when nothing works and you got the guts to go on.

The measure of an enthusiasm must be taken between interesting events. It is between bites that the lukewarm angler loses heart.

The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.

The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster.

The merit in action lies in finishing it to the end.

The mind is hopeful; success is in God's hands. [Lat., Sperat quidem animus: quo eveniat, diis in manu est.]

The mindless junk of your past crowds out opportunities and sets pointless limitations. Move out the junk, and you create room for the rest of your life. Ultimately, it's not just a question of tidying your house; it's a question of liberating your heart.