Quotes About Failure

Wherever you find marital failure, you will find a breakdown in real communication. Wherever you find marital success, you will find a good communication system.

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.

Folks, this government isn't too big to fail, it's too big to succeed.

Nothing can destroy a government more quickly than its failure to observe its own laws, or worse, its disregard of the charter of its own existence.

Government failure is always used as an excuse for government expansion. Government thrives on crisis and incompetence.

A situation where a solution to a stakeholder problem is imposed by a government agency or the courts must be seen as a managerial failure.

If [the shooting of Gabby Giffords in] Tucson tells us anything at all, it tells us this: Government has failed.

After September 11, the European governments have completely failed. They are incapable of seeing beyond their own national scope of interests.

The federal government has been a proven failure in picking winners and losers in the energy sector.

The long experiment with professional politicians and professional government is over, and it failed.

Republicans don't believe government works, and get into it to prove it will fail. Same with strippers and relationships.

When the private sector fails, the solution is more government. When the government fails, the solution is more government.

The failure of Lehman may have allowed the government to do more to prop up the economy than it otherwise could.

They can change every name in South Africa, but it won't change the fact that the government has failed to provide services or curb crime

And once again the government has failed to get the kind of cooperation from the relatives that might allow the case of this young boy to end in a civilized manner that is best for him.

Everything goes wrong for a government which is going wrong

For three decades, we have sought to solve the problems of unemployment through government planning, and the more the plans fail, the more the planners plan.

This is a typical liberal trick, by the way: Stack the deck so the whole thing fails leaving only one option, the government to go in to save the day.

You're going to fall down, but the world doesn't care how many times you fall down, as long as it's one fewer than the numbers of times you get back up.

A great artist has to be ready to fail.

The best way to make money is not to have money as your primary goal. I've seen great people come into the business world primarily motivated to make money. Almost without exception they failed.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

Unless you're willing to look a little foolish, forget the possibility of becoming great.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.