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Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

Luck plays no role in art world success. It's your own responsibility to create your success, which is a result of making thousands of constant decisions - focused, professional tenacity - day after day of keeping commitments to yourself and to those you make promises to. If you fail, it's all your fault. If you succeed, you deserve all the credit.

Lucky is where skill meets persistence.

Madame Curie didn't stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Make a Fair Product for a Fair Price, then Tell the World.

Make no cry in failure! Make no noise in success! In failure, silence; in success, silence! Fly with the same attitude both in the high and in the low altitudes!

Make the work you are doing today better than the work you did yesterday.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you.

Making better choices takes work. There is a daily give and take, but it is worth the effort.

Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.

Man's rise or fall, success or failure, happiness or unhappiness depends on his attitude ... a man's attitude will create the situation he imagines.

Many companies have long contended that stress in the home causes productivity loss in the market place.. and it does. But research now reveals that stress on the job causes stress at home. In other words, they feed off each other

Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.

Many hands and hearts and minds generally contribute to anyone's notable achievements.

Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. They have retained bubbling-over boyishness. They have relished wit, they have indulged in humor. They have not allowed ‘dignity’ to depress them into moroseness. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism, and optimism is the stuff of which American business success is fashioned. Resist growing up!

Many people excuse themselves by claiming that they don't have to do work anymore because they are beyond it. They are simply afraid of getting their hands dirty. Getting your hands dirty washes your being.

Many people don't have the ability to be rich, because they're too lazy or they don't have the desire or the stick-to-itiveness. It's a talent. Some people have a talent for piano. Some people have a talent for raising a family. Some people have a talent for golf. I just happen to have a talent for making money.

Many people spend their life always worrying about whether they have enough to cover expenses. They experience unhappiness.

Many people are afraid to fail, so they don't try. They may dream, talk, and even plan, but they don't take that critical step of putting their money and their effort on the line. To succeed in business, you must take risks. Even if you fail, that's how you learn. There has never been, and will never be, an Olympic skater who didn't fall on the ice.

Many persons are always kept poor, because they are too visionary. Every project looks to them like certain successes, and therefore they keep changing from one business to another, always in hot water, always ‘under the harrow’.

Material success may result in the accumulation of possessions: but only spiritual success will enable you to enjoy them.

Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.

Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might conclude almost anyone who seriously applied himself would achieve a measure of success.

Material success is always tempered by the recollection that there was some kind of happiness that was supposed to come with it.

Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.

Maybe my fairy tale has a different ending than I dreamed it would. But that's OK.

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

Measure your success by your inner scorecard versus an outer one.

'May the Force be with you' is charming but it's not important. What's important is that you become the Force - for yourself and perhaps for other people.

Me and success are two things you don't wanna find yo ass between. Back against the wall like plasma screens.

Men are what their mothers made them.

Meet success like a gentleman; disaster like a man.

Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.

Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful

Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.

Men of extraordinary success, in their honest moments, have always sung, "Not unto us, not unto us." According to the faith of their times, they have built altars to Fortune, or to Destiny, or to St. Julian. Their success lay in their parallelism to the course of thought, which found in them an unobstructed channel; and the wonders of which they were the visible conductors seemed to their eye their deed.

Men's best successes come after their disappointments.

Mentally imagine you are buying the business or applying for the job that will earn your fortune. Review each step you'd take, the obstacles you might meet, the difficulties you would meet. Continue imagining each step until you mentally reach your wealth goal.

Microsoft has had its success by doing low-cost products and constantly improving those products and we've really redefined the IT industry to be something that's about a tool for individuals.

Mere lack of success does not discredit a method, for there are many things that determine and perpetuate our sanctified ways of doing things besides their success in reaching their proposed ends.

Methodical thinking is of more use in Chess than inspiration

Mike Royce and I have always had success writing what we know. What we know now is that we're middle-aged, neurotic and fat.