One thing that I learned from my ups and downs is that my most solid success came when I used a mantra that I adopted when I was a kid living in poverty.

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After founding four successful technology companies (including ePrize) and experiencing my fair share of ups and downs, I came together with Dan Gilbert and Brian Hermelin to form yet another startup.

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If traffic numbers change my demeanor, so do the ups and downs of user engagement and our need to ramp up output of tablet applications, improve our mobile offering using HTML5 and reduce the various technology glitches that come with pushing the boundaries of Web publishing and building a complex social experience.

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For growth investors who don't want to miss out on the upside of the merging markets, but who also don't want to have to manage the ups and downs, my newsletter, Fidelity Investor, , recommends Fidelity Emerging Markets (FEMKX) and Fidelity New Markets Income (FNMIX), held in equal measure to the tune of no more than 10% of your overall portfolio.

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My time in Austria had its musical ups and downs.

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Throughout my 12-year Ireland career there have been many ups and downs but to lose a game we could, and should, have won ranks as one of the hardest defeats to take.

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And so, when I arrived to work to find a book on my desk called Seeking Happily Ever After: Navigating The Ups And Downs of BEING SINGLE Without Losing Your Mind I was feeling a little Twilight Zone-y.

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And that campaign back in 2007-2008, it had plenty of ups and downs, but no matter what, you, the people of Iowa, had my back. (Applause.) You had my back.

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