“Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance.” — Nassim Taleb, Fooled by Randomness
Tag: success
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“If hard work is the key to success, I’d rather pick the lock.” — Henny Youngman, Henny Youngman’s Bar Jokes, Bar Bets and Bar Tricks
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“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” — Truman Capote, “Self-Portrait,” The Dogs Bark
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“In nine hundred and ninety-nine instances out of a thousand, it is folly to name any success or failure as such; for either is a mystery, and the fairest evidences by which we can form an opinion of it are altogether and irremediably fallacious.” — Louise Imogen Guiney, “The Under Dog,” Patrins
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“Improving your odds doesn’t guarantee success.” — Bill Gates, Remarks of Bill Gates, Harvard Commencement 2007 (2007-06-07)
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“If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why.” — Meryl Streep, “The God of Dark Laughter,” Barnard College, New York City (2010-05-18)
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“A person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.” — Tim Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek
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“We all understand that genius doesn’t guarantee success, but it’s seductive to assume that success must come from genius.” — Leonard Mlodinow, The Drunkard’s Walk
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“It seems success takes you away from what you know, he said, while failure condemns you to it.” — Rachel Cusk, Outline
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“We all have our youthful follies embarrassing to recall – but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly anything that has happened to be a financial success.” — John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids
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