„In the real world, very smart people fail and mediocre people rise. Part of what makes people fail or succeed are skills that have nothing to do with IQ.“

— Camille Paglia

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„People do not care whether or not they succeed; they care about whether or not they fail.“
— Jordan Peterson
„What the welfare system and other kinds of governmental programs are doing is paying people to fail. In so far as they fail, they receive the money; in so far as they succeed, even to a moderate extent, the money is taken away.“
— Thomas Sowell
„People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.“
— Dale Carnegie
„people who have failed in their lives, they are suffering their failure. People who have succeeded in their life, they are suffering their success.“
— Sadhguru
„The richest people in the world aren’t particularly smart or happy. And the happiest people in the world aren’t particularly smart or rich.“
— Frank Zappa