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“...I don't have concrete plans for the future. I just think of success and keep a successful attitude. Success is 99 percent preparation. If you set yourself up for winning, rarely will you fail.”

Ifs Thinking Success Winning Attitude Successful Plans Failing Percent Preparation Concrete

Author:Peter James

“A minuscule 4 percent of funds produce market-beating after-tax results with a scant 0.6 percent (annual) margin of gain. The 96 percent of funds that fail to meet or beat the Vanguard 500 Index Fund lose by a wealth-destroying margin of 4.8 percent per annum.”

Loses Wealth Results Failing Produce Taxes Beats Percent Gains Investing Fund Destroying Margins Annuals Vanguard Index Funds

Author:David F. Swensen

“One thing that I've realized is that you're never going to be 100 percent successful. You're always going to be let down. When you have God in your life and you follow Christ, you're never going to be let down. Every time that you fail, He's there to pick you right back up. Every time you think the world's going to end because you had a couple of bad games, God's there to remind you that's not what it's all about.”

Thinking World Ends Games Christ Successful Failing One Thing Couple Picks Percent Let Down Bad Games

Author:Mark Teixeira

“Foreign policy is like hitting a baseball: if you fail 70 percent of the time, you go to the Hall of Fame.”

Ifs Failing Policy Fame Percent Baseball Halls Foreign Policy Hitting Hall Of Fame

Author:Robert Kagan

“Ninety percent of those who fail are not actually defeated; they simply quit. ... As you face bad experiences, it's important for you to remember that you can rarely see the benefits while you're in the midst of them. You usually gain perspective on the other side of it.”

Important Remember Faces Sides Failing Perspective Benefits Percent Gains Quitting Midst Defeated Ninety Bad Experiences

Author:John C. Maxwell

“If you're good, you fail seventy percent of the time. You have to be mentally capable of blocking that out and keep going.”

Ifs Failing Capable Percent Block Keep Going Seventies

Author:Mike Lowell

“In natural pregnancy, more than half of fertilized eggs fail to implant or are otherwise lost. Should we regard that as an instance of infant mortality? And if so, why are we not mounting ambitious public health campaigns to try to save and rescue all of the fertilized eggs that are lost in natural pregnancy? We would need a public health campaign of massive proportions if there really were over a fifty percent rate of infant mortality.”