nothing succeeds like success

proverb Initial success provides the resources and fosters the circumstances for further success. After their surprise championship victory, the team was suddenly flooded with support from the state and went on to become a powerhouse in the region. Nothing succeeds like success, as they say.

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Nothing succeeds like success.

Prov. If you have succeeded in the past, you will continue to be successful in the future. After Alan's brilliant courtroom victory, everyone wanted to be his client. Nothing succeeds like success.

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nothing succeeds like success

success leads to opportunities for further and greater successes. proverb

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nothing sucˌceeds like sucˈcess

(saying) success encourages you and often leads to more success: The first task the students do should be one they are likely to do well. This is because nothing succeeds like success.

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Nothing succeeds like success, and the market for television history quickly and exponentially expanded.

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Although he has gotten good press lately, reminding us of the old adage that nothing succeeds like success, he was, in my judgment, a charlatan and a phony If we as physicians are to be examples to our patients, we must be categorical in our denunciation of an Atkins.

Atkins diet: truth or fiction? (Letters to the Editor)

But nothing succeeds like success. Pershing's strategies were unstoppable; the Kaiser's superb troops were indeed driven back and the course of European history was changed.

Mead, Gary. The doughboys; America and the First World War

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