The true test of success is whether or not you can say goodbye.
Instead of worrying whether or not the initial project is a success or failure, market input is treated as learning and used to adapt.
Regardless of whether or not you think the Facebook IPO was dramatic failure or huge success, one thing is certain.
But most stock investors probably already have enough of a stake in the company's success, whether they hold individual shares or not.
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For the film industry, opening weekend box office returns determine whether a film is deemed to be a success or not.
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To some extent, the success of community councils may reflect whether or not an area actually has a sense of community to begin with.
And General Petraeus has indicated that by early September, we will know whether or not the surge has been a success.
The success of his unusual book depends on whether or not you are prepared to indulge his flights of fancy, his whimsical asides, his outspoken views.
His often-contradictory nine points aside, the key to the success or failure of 3D will obviously be whether or not audiences think the difference is consistently worth the money, no matter what anyone says about it -- or how awesome it makes sports look.
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What remains to be seen is whether or not that can translate into the same runaway financial success as other models.
Then there will be a chance for everyone to sit down and focus on the real issue, which is not whether to kill or translocate hedgehogs, but to see how to improve the breeding success of the dunlin and ringed plover on the Uist islands.
And on the domestic level, the measure of success of a government and a country was not this particular piece of legislation or that specific reform but whether it had provided successively rising standards of living for its broad middle class.
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