“I never set my sights low. I've always believed most people are ruined by the limitations they put on themselves. I was never afraid to take that step, to see what I was capable of doing. Does luck play a role in success, particularly in a creative field? Sure it does. But if you don't have the balls to give it a shot, you're destined to fail.” PeopleIfsGivingDoePlayStepsRolesCreativeFailingFieldsCapableLowsShotsBallsSightLuckLimitationRuinedDestinedAlways Believe Book:No Regrets Source: No Regrets
“The New Finance focused on the market's major systematic mistake. In failing to appreciate the strength of competitive forces in a market economy, it over estimates the length of the short run. In doing so, it overreacts to records of success and failure for individual companies, driving the prices of successful firms too high and their unsuccessful counterparts too low.” RunningIndividualForceMistakeCompanyEconomySuccessfulRecordsFailingMajorsLowsAppreciateFocusedDrivingFinanceFirmLengthSuccess And FailureSystematicUnsuccessfulCounterpartsMarket Economy Author:Robert Haugen
“There is a mortifying experience in particular, which does not fail to wreak itself also in the general history; I mean "the foolish face of praise," the forced smile which we put on in company where we do not feel at ease, in answer to conversation which does not interest us. The muscles, not spontaneously moved but moved, by a low usurping wilfulness, grow tight about the outline of the face, with the most disagreeable sensation.” FeelsMeanDoeFacesGrowsInterestAnswersCompanyFailingParticularConversationLowsPraiseMovedFoolishEaseMusclesSensationsOutlinesDisagreeable Book:The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson Source: The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The great tragedy of life is not that people set their sights too high and fail to achieve their goals but that they set their sights too low and do.” PeopleLife IsGoalFailingAchieveLowsSightTragedyGreat Tragedy Author:Michelangelo
“Those on the left who scream about income gaps choose to focus on the success of those at the top rather than the failures of those at the bottom. They conveniently ignore that liberals are the ones who have pushed the moral relativisim and welfare-state dependence that has destroyed black families over the last 60 years. And it is these same liberals who fight to keep low-income kids in failing public schools and fight efforts to get school choice.” YearsStatesKidsSchoolLastsChoicesFightingLeftBlackEffortMoralFocusFailingLowsBottomIncomeDestroyedWelfareGapsScreamDependencePublic SchoolWelfare StateLow IncomeBlack FamilySchool Choice Author:Star Parker
“I think that there's room for everyone. I don't think that if one person succeeds then another must fail. That's lunacy. I'm not sure what the reasons are for my philosophy, maybe it's the fact that if there are ten people doing the same job, we all know how we feel and what our high points and low points are.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsFeelsPersonsReasonPhilosophyFactsJobsRoomsKnow HowFailingSucceedTenLowsNot SureLunacyHigh PointsLow Points Author:Judd Nelson
“We get off track. Capitalism takes us off track. You get off the "real" and get on the "wheel." The "wheel" becomes the winning and losing, the succeeding and failing, the "I will achieve." All that stuff becomes so preoccupying, particularly if you're born with low self-esteem, or no sense of yourself, or even if you're just born in the consumer culture. It's very powerful.” IfsRealSelfCultureWinningStuffBornPowerfulFailingAchieveSelf EsteemSucceedLosingLowsCapitalismTrackEsteemConsumersWheelsVery PowerfulLow Self EsteemWinning And LosingConsumer Culture Author:Eve Ensler