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If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do.

I had immediate success in the sense that I sold something right off the bat. I thought it was going to be a piece of cake and it really wasn't. I have drawers full of - or I did have - drawers full of rejection slips.

In Asia, a lot of successful economies that had been living on their own saving, decided to open up their financial markets to international capital in the early 1990s. So here were countries doing quite well, but they decided they'd borrow a bit more and do even better.

The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.

It was really fun. It was fun for a lot of reasons. It was fun because nobody thought that we would be successful. It was on a network that wasn't even there at the time.

The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Nothing succeeds like reports of success.

We simply have to become more competitive as a state if we're going to be successful in creating jobs, bringing capital investment and raising income levels here in South Carolina.

To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.

The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.

Nobody can be successful if he doesn't love his work, love his job.

Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.

Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.

News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received.

I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.

Germany stays and falls with the success of the policy of Hitler.

And in reality, I don't think it's a real documentary. It's more a story of her life. It's a story of survival. It's a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure.

Studio people are idiots. Until they see someone else doing it and make a success of it, they don't open their minds. Most of them are idiots.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.