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“Don't worry about being successful. Worry about being significant.”

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Author:Oprah Winfrey

“Successful adult relationships, whether between lovers or friends, require a significant degree of vulnerability, trust, and openness-”

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Author:Susan Forward

“I like to aim for significance over success because rarely can you be significant and also successful, but many people can be successful and not significant.”

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Author:Alyson Stoner

“What is the manager's job? It is to direct the resources and the efforts of the business toward opportunities for economically significant results. This sounds trite - and it is. But every analysis of actual allocation of resources and efforts in business that I have ever seen or made showed clearly that the bulk of time, work, attention, and money first goes to problems rather than to opportunities, and, secondly, to areas where even extraordinarily successful performance will have minimal impact on results.”

Source: The Peter F. Drucker Reader: Selected Articles from the Father of Modern Management Thinking

“There are a significant number of learned men and women who hold that any successful effort to make ideas lively, intelligible and interesting is a manifestation of deficient scholarship. This is the fortress behind which the minimally coherent regularly find refuge.”

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Book:Economics in Perspective: A Critical History

Source: Economics in Perspective: A Critical History

“If you tell people what you are going to do, and you suggest it's going to be successful, you need to be successful. Because once you create those expectations and you don't fulfill them, when you already have a significant credibility problem, it just further degrades your credibility.”

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Author:Chris Lehane

“Successful or not, acts of physical courage always bring honor. It is the smaller forms of valor - standing up for principle at the risk of social disapproval, economic loss or injury to career - that require the greatest moral will power. Since there is usually little upside to winning and a significant and often lasting downside to losing, moral courage often requires as much character as physical bravery.”

“A successful business is a good way to create significant wealth, but not every business will grow into a News Corporation or a McDonalds.”

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Author:Paul Clitheroe

“Highly successful leaders ignore conventional wisdom and take chances. Their stories inevitably include a defining moment or key decision when they took a significant risk and thereby experienced a breakthrough.”

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Author:Larry Osborne

“It is better to be unsuccessful pursuing a significant goal that being successful attaining an insignificant one.”

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Author:Michael Josephson