Never reveal all of yourself to other people; hold back something in reserve so that people are never quite sure if they really know you.
From Michael Korda
Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.
I'm always astonished when I go into Barnes & Noble at the number of people buying books, of course, but also at the variety of books they do buy and the extent to which they are not the big bestsellers.
Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.
Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.
An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.
What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.
It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.
The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.
This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.
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