131. "Management: An activity or art where those who have not yet succeeded and those who have proved unsuccessful are led by those who have not yet failed."
     • Paulson Frenckner
     
     
     
132. "Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man."
     • Erich Fromm (1900-80)
     • German-born American psychoanalyst, emphasized role of social conditioning
     
     
     
133. "The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal."
     • Erich Fromm (1900-80)
     • German-born American psychoanalyst, emphasized role of social conditioning
     
     
     
134. "Champions know that success is inevitable; that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it."
     • Michael J. Gelb (b. 1952)
     • Writer, author
     
     
     
135. "Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success."
     • William S. Gilbert (1836-1911)
     
     
     
136. "A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him."
     • Sidney Greenberg
     
     
     
137. "Cultivate your curiosity. Keep it sharp and always working. Consider curiosity your life preserver, your willingness to try something new. Second, enlarge your enthusiasm to include the pursuit to excellence, following every task through to completion. Third, make the law of averages work for you. By budgeting your time more carefully than most people you can make more time available. Does the combination of curiosity, enthusiasm, and the law of averages guarantee success? Indeed it does not! ... Success in the final analysis always involves luck or the element of chance. Louis Pasteur grasped this well when he said that chance favors the prepared mind."
     • John W. Hanley
     
     
     
138. "Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity."
     • Frances Watkins Harper
     
     
     
139. "Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice."
     • Richard Harris
     
     
     
140. "Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage."
     • Sydney J. Harris (b. 1917)
     • American journalist