Colin PowellThere are no secrets to success: don’t waste time looking for them. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to those for whom you work, and persistence.
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The best advice I ever received was from my third grade teacher. She told me, “There are no secrets to success: don’t waste time looking for them. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to those for whom you work, and persistence.” For those of us who have been given the gift to be able to read and write, we should take full advantage of those gifts to help others and make the world a better place. This means not only changing and improving our own lives but also working to make our family, friends and co-workers better as well.
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