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    Inspirational quotes overheard on Twitter

    ByBecky McCray August 18, 2007August 27, 2014

    badbanana Conceiving big ideas is easy. It’s the birthing process that gets painful and messy.badbanana Then your idea grows up, moves away, and never writes or calls.jnswanson worry wastes time cc_chapman Thoughts are crystallizing into plans. Soon plans will form into actions. Everything is long term from now on byosko Startups are such rollercoasters. chrisbrogan…

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  • failure | success

    Quote – Be open to failure

    ByBecky McCray August 17, 2007August 27, 2014

    Be Confident with FailureIn any type of change initiative there will be failures, let downs and unexpected outcomes. Great success and change has come on the heels of major failure. Be open to failure from the beginning makes it easier to accept and move on.–David Finch New to SmallBizSurvival.com? Take the Guided Tour. Like what…

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  • failure | success

    Two failure quotes from Jim Rohn

    ByBecky McCray August 7, 2007August 27, 2014

    Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. Average people look for ways of getting away with it; successful people look for ways of getting on with it. Reproduced with permission from the Jim Rohn Weekly E-zine – http://www.jimrohn.com New to…

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  • failure | success

    Failure as a challenge

    ByBecky McCray July 23, 2007August 27, 2014

    Look constantly at your failures as a challenge. Take them apart in grizzly detail, for a short duration. Autopsy the corpse of your failure, and then build upon your strengths.– Chris Brogan New to SmallBizSurvival.com? Take the Guided Tour. Like what you see? Get our updates. Want more stories? Read our shared stories from all…

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  • failure | success

    Make a friend of failure

    ByBecky McCray July 15, 2007August 27, 2014

    Make a friend of failure. You are certain to fail sometimes, and the higher your aspirations, the more frequent and significant that failure will be. People who don’t strive for anything glorious rarely fail; they take no risks and never aim beyond what is easily attainable. But if you treat failure as an enemy, it’s…

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  • failure | success

    What do you do after you fail?

    ByBecky McCray July 13, 2007August 27, 2014

    I heard these thoughts about failure on Twitter today, and wanted to share them with you, too. It may help to know that Twitter is a messaging system, with a 140 character limit on message size and rather informal. You’ll find me there, too. These are unedited, just as they appeared. I bolded a few…

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  • failure | success

    Quote – Try a different mountain

    ByBecky McCray June 28, 2007August 27, 2014

    “In business, you reward people for taking risks. When it doesn’t work out, you promote them because they were willing to try new things. If people come back and tell me they skied all day and never fell down, I tell them to try a different mountain.”Mike Bloomberg New to SmallBizSurvival.com? Take the Guided Tour….

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  • failure | success

    Quote – You’ll fail further ahead

    ByBecky McCray June 27, 2007August 27, 2014

    “Big dreams mean big successes because even when you fail, you failed further ahead of where you’d be had you succeeded at something small!”Phil Gerbyshak This quote just came up last night on Liz Strauss’ Successful Blog Open Mic Nite. (Everyone is welcome, every Tuesday night!) New to SmallBizSurvival.com? Take the Guided Tour. Like what…

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