Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one’s better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.
With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.
In hindsight, everything in my life looks a little rosy. But the reality is that with, say, ‘Swingers,’ when we finished, it was considered a total failure.
I was in kidney failure. I ended up having a kidney transplant on my 21st birthday.
I’ve always felt that ‘game over’ is a state of failure more for the game designer than from the player.
Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.
There is no such thing as disappointment for those who continue to cherish the selflessness of which is born the noblest inner self. There is no such thing as failure for those who invest in the potentialities of the Ideal of the Soul.
Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.
Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
As an outside; don’t worry about failure, because failure will take care of itself. Focus on success.
My worst fashion failure was when I wore tight PVC pants, and I had a show in Eugene, Oregon… my pants split down the center.
Success has many fathers and failure is an orphan.
I believe that every person’s failure is their fault, every single time.
While it’s important to accept failure and not let it bog you down, it’s also perfectly acceptable to get upset about it as long as you remember that failure is a stepping stone in your journey that is getting you to where you need to be.
Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure.
How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.
Success unshared is failure.
About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.
A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
I’ve probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don’t want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.
Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can’t do it any other way.
Bare hands grip success better than kid gloves. Be thorough in all things, no matter how small or distasteful! The man who counts his hours and kicks about his salary is a self-elected failure.
I think it’s also important to show that failure is a part of the process. It can sometimes be the end goal. People are very obsessed with building useful things and I think often that also stops people from getting started.
I’ve had many failures in terms of technological… business… and even research failures. I really believe that entrepreneurship is about being able to face failure, manage failure and succeed after failing.
My father was a man of principle who found his principles confirmed in the unremitting failure which they brought on him.
