We fall forward to succeed.

—Mary Kay Ash

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About Mary Kay Ash

Mary Kay Ash (born Mary Kathlyn Wagner; May 12, 1918 – November 22, 2001) was an American businesswoman and founder of direct sales company Mary Kay Cosmetics, Inc. At the time of her death, she had a fortune of $98 million, and her company had more than $1.2 billion in...

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People fail forward to success.

—Mary Kay Ash

If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.

—Mary Kay Ash

Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that, so it goes on flying anyway.

—Mary Kay Ash

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Give yourself something to work toward—constantly.

—Mary Kay Ash

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So you think that you’re a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What’s wrong with that? In the first place, if you’ve any sense at all you must have learned by now that we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.

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Life can be about taking chances and finding really great things and yes, failing sometimes. Or it can be about wondering what if because you never dared to try.

—Lauren Dane in Giving Chase

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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

—George Washington Carver

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Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

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Poverty is not wholly a personal failure. It also represents the failure of an economic system. And the remedy is not wholly one of charity, but of political and economic action. Poverty is a reflection also on those who are not poor.

—Brooks Atkinson

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