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“The problem with most failing businesses is not that their owners don?t know enough about finance, marketing, management, and operations - they don?t, but those things are easy enough to learn - but that they spend their time and energy defending what they think they know. My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren?t so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.”

People Thinking Knows Needs Enough Problem Energy Easy Failing Failure Discipline Management Marketing Finance Operations Owners Insatiable Time And Energy Insatiable Need

Author:Michael Gerber

“In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.”

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Author:Naveen Jain

“You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.”

Source: You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson

“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”

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Book:The Greatest Salesman in the World

Source: The Greatest Salesman in the World

“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.”

“It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.”

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Author:Gore Vidal

“A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.”

“It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.”

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Author:Winston Churchill

“If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win.”

Ifs Inspirational Enough Bigs Winning Loses Failure

Author:Walter Reuther

“Why do eight out of ten new consumer products fail? Sometimes because they are too new. The first cold cereals were rejected by consumers. More often new products fail because they are not new enough.”

Firsts Sometimes Enough Failing Products Failure Cold Ten Eight Consumers Rejected Cereal New Products

Author:David Ogilvy

“If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.”

“The danger that keeps me just a little frightened with every book I write, however, is that I'll overreach myself once too often and try to write a story that I'm just plain not talented or skilful enough to write. That's the dilemma every storyteller faces. It is painful to fail. But it is far sadder when a storyteller stops wanting to try.”

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Author:Orson Scott Card

“There are many people who have the gift, or failing, of never understanding themselves. I have been unlucky enough, or perhaps fortunate enough to have received the opposite gift.”

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Author:Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

“If you're not failing, you're not trying hard enough.”

“If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks.”

Ifs Enough Life Is Learning Risk Teaching Failure

Author:H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“Anyone who doesn't make mistakes isn't trying hard enough.”

Trying Hard Enough Mistake Failure Making Mistakes Trying Hard

Book:Victory Secrets of Attila the Hun: 1,500 Years Ago Attila Got the Competitive Edge. Now He Tells You How You Can Get It, Too--His Way

Source: Victory Secrets of Attila the Hun: 1,500 Years Ago Attila Got the Competitive Edge. Now He Tells You How You Can Get It, Too--His Way

“The end of a relationship is not always a failure. Sometimes all the love in the world is not enough to save something. In these cases, it is not a matter of fault from either person. Some things cannot be, it's as simple as that.”

World Persons Ends Sometimes Matter Enough Simple Cases Relationship Failure Faults Relationships Ending

Author:Ashly Lorenzana

“Seven national crimes: 1. I don't think. 2. I don't know. 3. I don't care. 4. I am too busy. 5. I leave well enough alone. 6. I have no time to read and find out. 7. I am not interested.”

Thinking Knows Wells Enough Care Crime Failure Seven Busy Don't Care I Don't Care Not Interested Too Busy

Author:William J. H. Boetcker

“When you make a failure, it is because you have not asked for enough, keep on, and a larger thing then you were seeking will certainly come to you. Remember this.”

Enough Dream Remember Failure Seeking

Book:Wallace D. Wattles Ultimate Collection – 10 Books in One Volume: The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, The Science of Being Great, How to Get What You Want and more: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of Making of the Man Who Can or How to Promote Yourself and New Science of Living and Healing or Health Through New Thought and Fasting

Source: Wallace D. Wattles Ultimate Collection – 10 Books in One Volume: The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, The Science of Being Great, How to Get What You Want and more: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of Making of the Man Who Can or How to Promote Yourself and New Science of Living and Healing or Health Through New Thought and Fasting

“Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.”

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Book:Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.”

Long Enough Past Remember Mistake Failure Profit Our Past Your Past Past Mistakes

Author:Clinton D. McKinnon

“Real failure comes when we consider ourselves good enough at something to be able to repeat it rather than to develop it. "Success is dangerous," the painter Pablo Picasso said. "One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility."”

Said Real Enough Able Dangerous Failure Oneself Painter Repeats Copies Good Enough

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“Nimewapa watoto wangu kila kitu katika maisha isipokuwa umaskini. Lakini bado wamenishinda.”

“Wape watoto wako urithi wa kutosha ili waweze kufanya kitu, lakini si urithi wa kutosha ili wasiweze kufanya kitu. Wape watoto uhuru wanaostahili kupata, uhuru wa mahesabu, lakini si uhuru wa kila kitu.”

“Ukiwapa watoto wako uhuru wa shaghalabaghala au uhuru wa kila kitu watajisahau! Wape uhuru wa mahesabu.”