(710 quotes found)
“If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.”
Woody Allen
“I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.”
Thomas Alva Edison
“An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.”
Charles F. Kettering
“It is not sufficient that I suceed - all others must fail.”
Genghis Khan
“Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.”
William Arthur Ward
“The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.”
“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve”
“I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.”
John Keats
“Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.”
Warren G. Bennis