Success

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To succeed today, you have to set priorities, decide what you stand for.
I believe in the value of paranoia. Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction. The more successful you are, the more people want a chunk of your business and then another chunk and then another until there is nothing left.

Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company and Career (1996)
I think making a name for yourself is a wrong objective...I would prefer to look for ways where you can make maximum contribution, and thatepends on two things: clearly what your skills are and, less clearly, what the activities that you truly enjoy are. By choosing occupations that you can get excited about you are likely to do your best work.

Interview, WebChat Broadcasting System (1996)
To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality.

Body and Soul (1991)
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Quoted in The World's Best Thoughts on Life and Living (1981)
Winners are people who have fun�and produce results as a result of their zest.

A Passion for Excellence (1985)
It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
The man who has the largest capacity for work and thought is the man who is bound to succeed.

My Life and Work (cowritten with Samuel Crowther; 1922)
No other area offers richer opportunities for successful innovation than the unexpected success.

Innovation and Entrepreneurship (1993)
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