Quotes About Failure

The E Myth. Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business.

You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient.

Running helped me learn how to deal with failure, and failure is a big part of the Internet business.

A business model that hasn't been tried before is always interesting, even if it's likely to fail.

I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.

Don't 'tolerate' mistakes. Embrace them!

If a business is not ethical, it will fail, perhaps not right away but eventually.

By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other character flaw.

Most small businesses failed because the owner was under skilled, not under capitalized.

You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.

In 40-odd years in show business, some years I could do no wrong, and some years I could do nothing right. Show business. I owe it everything - it owes me nothing.

I didn't leave business school to go bankrupt.

The average for entrepreneurs is 3.8 failures before they finally make it in business.

I want to see the numbers that prove that show-business marriages are any less successful than other marriages. It's just very public when they fail.

Show business is a great place to fail upward... and I guess that's what I've done.

I guess show business is a lot like baseball: "Wait until next year!" You just never know. Some of the shittiest shows I've ever seen run forever, and some of the best things never get a chance.

Me trying to make a business around Linux would have been a total disaster.

If you have managers reporting to managers in a startup, you will fail. Once you get beyond startup, if you have managers reporting to managers, you will create politics.

If you are doing well, your business will pay more in tax; if you're not doing well, you pay less.

Lack of discipline. First of all, I think some of them fail because they just don't have natural talent, and they shouldn't even be in the business to begin with.

Innovation implies high risk, and with high risk comes failure, so you've got to be prepared for that, but if you don't risk, then your business goes stale very quickly.

Whatever happened to Trump Airlines? How about Trump University? And then there's Trump Magazine and Trump Vodka and Trump Steaks, and Trump Mortgage? A business genius he [Donald Trump] is not.

The dumb-manager theory of business problems just didn't hold water for me. There had to be a deeper reason why smart people would make decisions that lead to failure.

In the business world, we can point to instances when a lack of integrity has bankrupted entire companies - in sectors as different as finance, telecommunications, manufacturing, and energy.