Nothing succeeds like success

“Nothing succeeds like success,” said François Heisbourg, a French defense analyst.

“Nothing succeeds like success,” VanDerveer said.

Or perhaps it is simply that nothing succeeds like success: after the lunar landing, Americans decided that it had been worth the price after all.

And in this White House, starved for a win, nothing succeeds like success.

Instead of condemning them as unjust or idiotic, she offered the bromide that “nothing succeeds like success,” before going on to explain that the city had hosted 14 foreign education ministers during the previous year and that she retained faith in the molasseslike pace of bureaucracy to keep Ms. DeVos from inflicting too much damage.