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“It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”

“One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”

Source: The Counterfeiters: A Novel

“The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.”

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Author:Samuel Gompers

“Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.”

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Author:Andy Grove

“With ruin staring you in the face, there is nothing worse to live through than a siege of waiting and hoping. If you manage to live through it, nothing can ever jar your nerves after that.”

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Author:Sue Sanders

“Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.”

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Book:Think and Grow Rich: Collector's Edition

Source: Think and Grow Rich: Collector's Edition

“A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.”

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Book:The Philosophy of Elbert Hubbard

Source: The Philosophy of Elbert Hubbard

“We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.”

“It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.”

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Author:Charles Kettering

“One fails forward toward success.”

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Book:Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering

Source: Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”

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Author:Colin Powell

“Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.”

Source: My American Journey

“Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.”

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Author:Warren G. Bennis

“One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.”

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Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.”

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

“Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.”

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Author:Walter Scott

“Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.”

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Book:Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson: Autobiographical Writings and Essays by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona

Source: Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson: Autobiographical Writings and Essays by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona

“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.”

“Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.”

“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”

Source: Epigrams and Aphorisms

“You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.”

Source: Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur

“Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”

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Author:Richard Branson

“A minute's success pays the failure of years.”

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Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought”

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Author:Laurence J. Peter

“Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day”

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Author:Will Durant

“There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.”

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Book:Miscellaneous Writings of Andrew Carnegie

Source: Miscellaneous Writings of Andrew Carnegie

“Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression.”

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Author:John Harvey-Jones

“Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.”

“How many people are completely successful in every department of life? Not one. The most successful people are the ones who learn from their mistakes and turn their failures into opportunities.”

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Book:Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance

Source: Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance

“If we try and fail, we have temporary disappointments. But if we do not try at all, we have permanent regrets.”

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Author:Bernard Williams

“Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.”

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Author:Coco Chanel

“Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.”

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Author:George Canning