The only big companies that succeed will be those that obsolete their own products before somebody else does.
Life means work, and hard work, if you mean to succeed.
I see with much pleasure that you are working on a large work on the integral Calculus [. . . ] The reconciliation of the methods which you are planning to make, serves to clarify them mutually, and what they have in common contains very often their true metaphysics; this is why that metaphysics is almost the last thing that one discovers. The spirit arrives at the results as if by instinct; it is only on reflecting upon the route that it and others have followed that it succeeds in generalising the methods and in discovering its metaphysics.
I did not succeed in everything I did. And even where it did seem I was succeeding it was not always the case. The human heart has a million facets.
They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed.
If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
Consumer spending is now plunging at serious-recession rate. . . even if the rescue now in train succeeds in unfreezing credit markets, the real economy has immense downward momentum. In addition to financial rescues, we need major stimulus programs.
Even if at first you do succeed, you still have to work hard to stay there.
We find our energies are actually cramped when we are overanxious to succeed.
The unions are the first feeble effort to conquer the industrial jungle for democratic life. They may not succeed, but if they don't their failure will be a tragedy for civilization, a loss of cooperative effort, a baulking of energy, and the fixing in American life of a class-structure.
It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.
I never felt I was incapable of succeeding because I felt confident I could always learn what I needed to know.
The dark, uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed.
A political system seeking to function amongst ignorant, illiterate and barbaric people could have marvelous principles but could only succeed in being ignorant, illiterate and barbaric unless one addressed the people one by one and cured the ignorance, illiteracy and barbarism of each citizen.
Coaching is about helping young people have a chance to succeed. There is no more awesome responsibility than that. One of the greatest honors a person can have is being called 'Coach. '
'Soul Plane' put me in a position to succeed. I'm glad I had the opportunity to be the lead man.
Many of us delude ourselves with the thought that if we could stand in the lot of our more fortunate neighbor, we could live better, happier and more useful lives. . . . It is my experience that unless we can succeed in our present position, we could not succeed in any other.
Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create. I want something, but I won't know what it is until I succeed in doing it.
You shouldn't fear failure. You should fear succeeding at the wrong thing. I may fail, but I'm failing at the right thing.
If America is to succeed in responding to these 21st Century challenges, our political system cannot continue to bog down in the mire of partisan gamesmanship.