SUCCESS
Nothing succeeds like excess.—Life.
Nothing succeeds like looking successful.—Henriette Corkland.
Success in life often consists in knowing just when to disagree with one's employer.
A New Orleans lawyer was asked to address the boys of a business school. He commenced:
"My young friends, as I approached the entrance to this room I noticed on the panel of the door a word eminently appropriate to an institution of this kind. It expresses the one thing most useful to the average man when he steps into the arena of life. It was—"
"Pull," shouted the boys, in a roar of laughter, and the lawyer felt that he had taken his text from the wrong side of the door.
I'd rather be a Could Be
If I could not be an Are;
For a Could Be is a May Be,
With a chance of touching par.
I'd rather be a Has Been
Than a Might Have Been, by far;
For a Might Have Been has never been,
But a Has was once an Are.
'Tis not in mortals to command success,
But we'll do more, Sempronius,—
We'll deserve it.
—Addison.
There are two ways of rising in the world: either by one's own industry or profiting by the foolishness of others.—La Bruyère.
Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
—Emily Dickinson.
See also Making good.