Quotes About Failure

The higher up the tree a cat climbs, the farther it will fall. It's the same for politicians, except politicians don't bounce.

Every year, over a million people in this country start a business of some sort. Statistics tell us that by the end of the first year at least 40 percent of them will be out of business.1

No,' said Bastian, still looking down. 'I was put back last year.' 'Good Lord!' cried Mr Coreander. 'A failure all along the line.

When all the projections of intent and strategy twist and turn back on you, tracking team blood, 'sorry' just won't cover it. There's nothing so embarrassing as when things go wrong in a war.

I failed so therefore I succeed.

I have failed many times, and that's why I am a success.

I've failed over and over and over again in my life... and that is why I succeed"—Michael Jordan

I failed over and over and over and that is why I succeed.

He fallado una y otra vez en mi vida, por eso he conseguido el éxito.

I've missed over 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot... and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

Puedo aceptar el fracaso, pero no acepto no intentarlo

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

The markets were now run by technology, but the technologists were still treated like tools. Nobody bothered to explain the business to them, but they were forced to adapt to its demands and exposed to its failures—which was, perhaps, why there had been so many more conspicuous failures.

The ability of Wall Street traders to see themselves in their success and their management in their failure would later be echoed, when their firms, which disdained the need for government regulation in good times, insisted on being rescued by government in bad times. Success was individual achievement; failure was a social problem.

Debt ownership in a shaky enterprise means control, for when a company fails to meet its interest payments, a bondholder can foreclose and liquidate the company.

fourth risk: the electrical grid. The river and its tributaries generate more than 40 percent of the hydroelectric power for the United States; were the dams to fail, the effects would be catastrophic.

BAFU. Billions and All Fucked Up.

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising. —Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise

Baseball—of all things—was an example of how an unscientific culture responds, or fails to respond, to the scientific method. As

It's what you fail to imagine that kills you.

The problem wasn't that Lehman Brothers had been allowed to fail. The problem was that Lehman Brothers had been allowed to succeed.