Failure Quotes

Investors do not like losing money. They do not like companies that fail. They do not like entrepreneurs that fail. There is not a culture of celebrating failure in Silicon Valley or anyplace else. That is a myth. Recognize this, and if you start another business, get it to a successful point before approaching outside investors again.

I have learnt the hard way that neither success nor failure last forever.

Failure teaches you a lot more than success.

Whether we can call 'Hell or High Water' this rogue buddy bank-heist movie, it's also a meditation on assimilation and failure and what happens when someone loses their purpose.

Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.

We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It's fertiliser, it's like living fertiliser, because you're forced on yourself.

I think the fall in Eden was ultimately a failure to give thanks.

Only in our failures are we absolutely alone. Only in the pursuit of failure can a person really be free. Losers may be the avant garde of the modern age.

As much as you learn to handle failure, you must learn to handle success too, because that's also important.

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

If you think my career has been a failure because I have never won a national title, you have another thing coming.

We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.

My biggest fear is doing the same things 10 years from now. That would be a failure. It's something you have to constantly reassess, and asking yourself what you are going to do next makes it a good, long full journey.

Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk.

Over-dependence on finite resources, like oil, ignores the ability of our great minds to develop alternative energy for the masses, and in doing so ignores climate change and sets up our students and workforce for failure by not educating them about the needs of our future.

I want to become a star. Failure is not an option.

I tend to avoid interviews, I don't have a publicist and fear of failure is still very much alive in my personal life.

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

At the end of the day I have always seen the end of my relationships as a personal failure. There is nothing ever pretty in saying goodbye.

The failure of Socialism since 1945 is that whilst encouraging us all, the creators of wealth, to produce less through strikes, it has caused us all to demand a higher level of our own product.