Success is not final failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Success is never final failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
It's cool to have critical success because it's always nice for your peers to say 'Good job.' But who cares about them?
You have to be the best of whatever you are but successful cool actresses come in all shapes and sizes.
If I wasn't even famous or had any success I would still wake up and put tons of make-up on and put on a cool outfit. That's always been who I've been my whole life so that's never gonna change. I love fashion. I love getting dressed up. I love Halloween too.
When I launched the development of the GNU system I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can use our computers and have freedom thus if you use some other free system instead but you have freedom then it's a success. It's not popularity for our code but it's success for our goal.
I don't start with a design objective I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate.
When first starting to work with someone you try to get them in the same mindset that you were in when you were successful and I realized the best thing you can ever do is realize that they are not you. They have a different persona and mindset and you have to figure out what works best within your communication with that athlete.
I don't understand why people whose entire lives or their corporate success depends on communication and yet they are led on occasion by CEOs who cannot talk their way out of a paper bag and don't care to.
The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration Discrimination Organization Innovation and Communication.