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Fear drives you a lot harder than success does.

During periods of extreme fear or greed, you don't have the proper balance between those two to generate market efficiency and you get extremes in behavior.

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all.

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.

In taking stock of ourselves, we should not forget that fear plays a large part in the drama of failure. That is the first thing to be dropped. Fear is a mental deficiency susceptible of correction, if taken in hand before it gains an ascendency over us. Fear comes with the thought of failure.

I find fear is a great motivator to work hard.

We fear that this moment will end, that we won't get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.