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Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
George Bernard Shaw

Success, Time, Mistakes

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?
John Lennon

Society, Live, Mean

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
George Washington Carver

Excuses, Percent, Failures

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.
Booker T. Washington

Hate, Him, Soul

I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.
Barack Obama

Family, Year, Less

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
Henry David Thoreau

Love, Time, Before

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.
Aristotle

Study, Means, Three

I want to keep making records as long as I can, but I don't know how long you can be taken seriously in rap.
Eminem

Long, Keep, Seriously

I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.
Eminem

Time, Money, Try

Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.
Doug Coupland

Person, Blame, Lazy

When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.
Steve Jobs

Beautiful, Though, Nobody

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.
Steve Jobs

Good, Country, Place

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
Andy Warhol

Good, Money, Best

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
Henry Ford

Time, Business, Goes

Ultimately, if you can say that I'm a bad owner and we're winning championships, I can live with that. But if we're not making the playoffs and we're spending and losing money, then I have to look in the mirror and say maybe I'm not taking the necessary steps to doing what it takes to run an organization.
Michael Jordan

Money, Live, Bad

I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.
Leo Tolstoy

Sorry, Him, Wish

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
Gilda Radner

Life, Change, Best

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
Edgar Allan Poe

Dreams, Hope, True

Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn't make you want to jump into that business.
Charlie Sheen

Life, Business, Dad

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.
Steve Jobs

Money, Pretty, Industry

I think that when you get dressed in the morning, sometimes you're really making a decision about your behavior for the day. Like if you put on flipflops, you're saying: 'Hope I don't get chased today.' 'Be nice to people in sneakers.'
Demetri Martin

Hope, Morning, Nice

If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.
Steven Wright

Someone, Two, Thoughts

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
Abdul Kalam

Happiness, After, Running

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.
Colin Powell

Forward, Writing, Country

Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff.
Will Rogers

Stuff, Land, Buy

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
Peter Drucker

Work, Done, Difficult

I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

United, Finished, Product

We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.
Barack Obama

Greed, Country, Special

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Max Planck

Truth, Die, Light

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.
Napoleon Hill

Show, Knows, Actions

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