“If you're ninety-five percent of the way to outstanding success, doesn't it make sense to go the additional five percent of the way? ... A marathon which takes hours to run, can be won or lost by a matter of seconds.” IfsWayMatterRunningSuccessLostHoursFivePercentMake SenseSecondsNinetyMarathonOutstanding Author:Ralph Marston
“There will never be a successful person who, before performing a task, has doubts. Negative thoughts arise from recognizing that somewhere along the line your level of commitment has dropped below 100 percent. The winner will always be the person with the fewest doubts.” PersonsSuccessLinesLevelsSuccessfulDoubtPercentCommitmentNegativeTasksAriseWinnerPerformingRecognizingNegative ThoughtsSuccessful Person Author:Nicole Haislett
“We talked about and that has always been a puzzle to me why American men think that success is everything when they know that eighty percent of them are not going to succeed more than to just keep going and why if they are not why do they not keep on being interested in the things that interested them when they were college men and why American men different from English men do not get more interesting as they get older.” IfsThinkingKnowsMenDifferentAmericaSuccessInterestingCollegeSucceedPercentAgingKeep GoingPuzzlesEighty Author:Gertrude Stein
“...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.” IfsThinkingSuccessWinningAttitudeSuccessfulPlansFailingPercentPreparationConcrete Author:Peter James
“Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.” LifeSuccessLife IsDiseasePercentHundredRateMortalitySexuallyDiseasedLife Is FragileSexually Transmitted Diseases Author:R. D. Laing