“I'm so ugly, but that's O.K. 'cause so are you.”
Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist
“And it's always O.K. to be rich.”
Source: Success! (1977), p. 3
Context: • It's O. K. to be ambitious.
• It's O. K. to look out for Number One. …
• It's O. K. to be a winner.
• And it's always O. K. to be rich.
A word of caution: people will tell you that success can't buy you happiness. This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.
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