A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
If you want this job too much you may not be any good at it.
Reagan, Ford, Bush, Clinton
Impassioned characters never attain their mark till they have overshot it.
Nothing fails like success.
Even I admit I may have peaked too soon.
Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding.
We both got caught on making a bureaucracy work on things that were much bigger than that which they had ever worked on.
You don't want to get too comfortable if you're winning and start trying to be a number 10.
I've seen small businesses turn into terrible midsize or big ones because they let their desire to achieve some arbitrary metric get the best of them. Whatever is compromised as a result doesn't matter anymore, as long as the company is growing.
I trust my arm, maybe a little too much.