Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

"The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed, most successful men fail time and time again, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success."

"Very well observed and touching story, wonderful eye for detail and a pleasure to read,"

"Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out."

"Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed."

"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."

"The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by other people's rules, while quietly playing by your own."

"To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it."

"The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject."

"The more you can dream, the more you can do."

"Luck can often mean simply taking advantage of a situation at the right moment. It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared."

"What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe."

"The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance."

"Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity."

"The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own."

"One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals."

"Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility."

"An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition."

"One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if one already knew and didn't care."

"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."

"Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement."

"Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets."

If your position is everywhere, your momentum is zero.