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«Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must first set yourself on fire.»
«A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.»
«Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there; they cause change. They motivate and inspire others to go in the right direction and they, along with everyone else, sacrifice to get there.»
«Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.»
«Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.»
«Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them»
Author: Ogden Nash (Writer) | About: Debt | Keywords: acquiring, debts, retiring, set about
«There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.»
«Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.»
«My doctrine is not a doctrine but just a vision. I have not given you any set rules, I have not given you a system.»
«Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.»

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