Success Quotes
“By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.”
“I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.”
-- Tanya Tucker
“Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.”
-- Charles de Montesquieu
“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”
-- George Bernard Shaw
“Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.”
-- Barbara Bush
“The FHA's success provides strong evidence that government can and should play a role in the nation's mortgage finance system. It also demonstrates that although government intervention in the economy during the Great Recession was messy, things would have been a lot messier without it.”
-- Mark Zandi