It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.
Winston ChurchillRead
A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow.
Interpretation
Achievements often come with sacrifices or negative aspects.
Winston Churchill's quote emphasizes that while success and recognition, symbolized by a medal, may appear glamorous, they also have their drawbacks or consequences, represented by the shadow. It serves as a reminder that every achievement may carry hidden challenges or responsibilities.
In practice
During a speech at a graduation ceremony to remind students that success comes with responsibilities.
It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.
The United States is like a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lit under it, there's no limit to the power it can generate.
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
I will not pretend that if I had to choose between communism and Nazism I would choose communism.
Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
The best way to succeed in this world is to act on the advice you give to others.
It's all about competitiveness: are you making the products that people really do want and value, and are you making it more efficiently and using less resources and less time than the competition?
It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success.
I ... have two vocations: chess and engineering. If I played chess only, I believe that my success would not have been significantly greater. I can play chess well only when I have fully convalesced from chess and when the 'hunger for chess' once more awakens within me.
A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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