Failure Quotes

If you punish people too much for failure, then they will respond accordingly and the innovation you will get will be very incrementalist. Nobody's going to try anything bold for fear of getting fired or punished in some way. The risk/reward must be balanced, in favor of making bold moves.

If something's important enough, you should try. Even if the probable outcome is failure.

Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

It's very hard to fail completely, if you aim high enough.

I was relentless, even in the face of total lack of encouragement, because much more often than you'd think, sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure.

Leaders, true leaders, take responsibility for the success of the team and understand that they must also take responsibility for the failure.

Success comes from failure, not from memorizing the right answers.

Life is too short to spend your time avoiding failure.

You must first be willing to fail - and you must have the courage to go for it anyway.

The only way to win is to not be afraid of losing.

If a founder has passion and innovation, he needs to be supported. I am more intuitive than a numbers person, and I recognise that not all investments are going to be positive. Some may fail, and some may have problems for other reasons. That is life.

You will be wounded many times in your life. You'll make mistakes. Some people will call them failures but I have learned that failure is really God's way of saying, "Excuse me, you're moving in the wrong direction." It's just an experience, just an experience.

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.

So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.

I don't believe in failure. It's not failure if you enjoy the process.

The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time.

There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail.

Luck and destiny are the excuses of the world's failures.

There is no failure except failure to serve one's purpose.