There's a good explanation for the phenomenon in the book The Formula: The Universal Law of Success by Albert Laszlo Barabasi.

阿尔伯特·拉兹洛·巴拉巴斯（Albert Laszlo Barabasi）所著的《公式：成功的普遍法则》（the Formula: the Universal Law of Success）一书对这一现象作出了很好的解释。

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This is the famous formula for success: Dream > Believe > Achieve.

这就是著名的成功公式：梦想>信念>成就。

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Psychologists at Radford University came to the conclusions after devising a formula for calculating the probabilities of marital success based on a spouse's career.

这个结论是瑞德福大学的心理学家得出的。他们发明了一个公式，用来计算受夫妻职业类型影响的婚姻成功机率。

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Any behavior that reinforced the success formula, as the leader expressed it, made employees and contractors successful.

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As time passed, the growing organization became adroit at implementing the success formula, operating better, faster and cheaper.

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Loyal managers, who identified with, and implemented intensely, the success formula were rewarded.

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