I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I just want to be reasonably successful and live a normal life with all the conveniences to make it so.
When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.
If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.
When you go to bat as many times as I do, you're bound to get a good average. That's why I keep my projects diversified.
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.
Believe it or not, I have about the same success rate as anyone else. Sometimes you hit, sometimes you miss.
You renew yourself every day. Sometimes you're successful, sometimes your not, but it's the average that counts.
The greatest change to go from average to fortune is not so much an increase in knowledge, but rather, a change in our emotions about achieving our goals.
