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Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people
that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of
failing with.

—Paula Abdul, singer-songwriter

Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be
discouraged if you fail a few times.

—Napoleon Hill, pioneer of the modern genre of personal success I have heard many men talk
intelligently, even brilliantly about something—only to see them proven powerless when it comes
to acting on what they believe.

—Bernard Baruch, financier, stock investor, philanthropist, and statesman

I didn’t think I’d regret trying and failing…. I suspected I would always be
haunted by a decision to not try at all.

—Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com

It’s very important to take risks. I think that research is very important, but in the
end you have to work from your instinct and feeling and take those risks and be
fearless. When I hear a company is being run by a team, my heart sinks, because
you need to have that leader with a vision and heart that can move things
forward.

—Anna Wintour, Vogue magazine editor There are no rules. You don’t learn to walk by following
rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over, and it’s because you fall over that you learn to save
yourself from falling over.