Quotes About Failure

The person who fails is a hero, the backbone of the change effort. Failure gains that person more respect, not less.

The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed.

What I call bankruptcy of inventiveness is often the result of a failure to set aside the resources necessary to let invention happen. The principal resource needed for invention is slack. When companies can't invent, it's usually because their people are too damn busy.

They say baseball's a game of failure. Well, that's only true on the offensive side.

You can't do anything about a film's fate at the box office.

People will say a movie bombed at the box office but I couldn't care less.

The success, or failure, of a CEO to implement AI throughout the organization will depend on them hiring a leader to build an organization to do this. In some companies, CIOs or chief data officers are playing this role.

One of the reasons the American public holds unelected government officials in such low esteem is that they are never held accountable for their failures.

We fail to boost our offshore production at our own expense.

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

I had a couple of investments that didn't go my way. That's why I laugh at guys who say, 'Oh, I'm going to open a clothing line. I'm going to start a restaurant.'

Oh my God, I love UCLA so much. Their film school is great because it's unstructured, so there's a freedom to fail in there and just tell your story, and everybody makes a film. It's so important to have that freedom in film school because that's what you're there for: to learn and make a film.

Mike DeWine has been a dismal failure as Ohio's top cop.

One must always attempt to make good films, even if you fail it is ok. It is a journey, you have both good and bad days.

I think that's the whole point of Bridget Jones. It's all about that it's okay to fail.

I need to stay in the present and use that new-age mantra: 'I'm okay right now.' But I worry about all the things I'm failing at every moment.

If you are not making any mistakes, you are being excessively risk-averse. Investing involves risk, and that means you will occasionally be wrong. And although it is okay to be wrong, it is not okay to stay wrong.

I am glad I tried something different with 'A Flying Jatt'. I will be okay even if I failed with this film.

Obama said that his performance at bowling was so bad 'it was like the Special Olympics or something.' Disability, by Obama's definition, was about difference and failure.

On the street, I'll hear, 'You made the Olympics for me,' or 'I love what you represented.' Only occasionally is it, 'You were a flop, an also-ran, a loser.'

When I participated in Rio Olympics in 2016, I failed to grab a medal. But it was a learning experience.

It was not me failing that I was scared of. It was failing those people back home who believe in you. They only delivered the newspaper once a week where I lived in Oklahoma, and those people lived and died with the box score of my games.

Neither a success nor by any means a failure, Roku will nevertheless ask public investors for money because they, too, have a right to dream that magic will become reality one day.

One of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it's fear of failure, fear of being overtaken.