And they are winning because they bought a manager who guarantees success.

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Success offers no guarantees, though, and the next time she was in the news, it was because of her musician husband Jason Rae's accidental death.

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Executives sometimes think that control of a particular part of the value chain guarantees success, but the stage of history is littered with dominant companies that collapsed or were forced to change as their playscripts fell apart.

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That said, spending big hardly guarantees success.

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For those retirees, it will require a more actively managed and value-added approach to their portfolios, including investments in the stock market, even then with no guarantees of success.

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And I believe in a country that enshrines each of these three things, a country that promises nothing but the promise of being more fully human, and never guarantees its success.

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While it is obvious that no one approach GUARANTEES entrepreneurial success, it is clear from everything we have learned so far, that there is a PROVEN path that increases your odds.

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Junior potential by no means guarantees senior success, of course - in the mid-1990s Martin Lee rose to junior world number one but never made it higher than 94th in the senior standings.

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Of course, there are no guarantees for success.

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Businessman With Idea Light Bulb As we have seen, there is no one approach guarantees entrepreneurial success, but it is clear from everything we have learned so far, that there is a proven path that increases your odds.

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There are still no guarantees, but success rates have soared.

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Individuals who aspire to become major league umpires begin at various levels of professional baseball and subscribe to a life filled with personal sacrifice, financial hardships and no guarantees of future success.

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Given the frequency with which college coaches are courted by the NFL, the ultra competitive recruiting landscape, the higher-than-average academic standards relative to other Division I schools, and the inherent uncertainty of knowing how 18-22 year old kids will perform under pressure, there are no guarantees for prolonged success.

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Of course, neither guarantees a project's success.

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There are no guarantees in the business world about success and failure.

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None of this guarantees New.net's success.

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And while Solyndra is shutting its doors, companies like SunPower, First Solar, and Brightsource Energy, which also received loan guarantees and other support from the federal government, are industry leading success stories.

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But the agreement legitimizes the new medium within the industry, guarantees the writers a stake in it and aligns the interests of everyone in Hollywood in seeking Internet success.

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