Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure.

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"Don’t make friends who you are comfortable with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up."

- Thomas J. Watson

Motivation

"If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work."

- Thomas J. Watson

Hard Work

"If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today."

- Thomas J. Watson

Success

"To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart."

- Thomas J. Watson

Belief in Self

"To be successful you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart."

- Thomas J. Watson

Belief in Self

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"You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character."

Failure

"I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that don’t work."

- Thomas Edison

Failure

"We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes – understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success."

- Arianna Huffington

Failure

"Trying is the first step toward failure."

- Homer Simpson

Failure

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."

- Truman Capote

Failure