Best 1227 quotes in «failing quotes» category

Startups don’t fail because they lack a product; they fail because they lack customers and a profitable business model.

Success comes from continuing to strive, fail and learn without losing enthusiasm.

Succeeding in business and failing at home is a cop-out. For no success in the workplace will ever make up for failure at home.

Successful people fail often, and, worth noting, learn more from that failure than everyone else.

Successful people just don't let failure define them or keep them from doing what they want to do. For example, I'd have people come up to me after my shows, and they'd say they want to do stand-up but are scared they're going to fail. I'd tell them, "You are going to fail, and anyone who is success has powered through many, many failures.

Success is failing nineteen times and soaring the twentieth.

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure.

Telling stories never fails to produce good in the universe.

Tell your readers to use it or lose it. If you don't use your muscles, they get weak. If you don't use your mind it begins to fail.

Terror will crash down on us if we fail to understand that a pluralistic society requires the personal and daily commitment of every citizen.

Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.

That 95 per cent. fail of those who start in business upon their own account seems incredible, and yet such are said to be the statistics upon the subject.

That's one of my biggest obstacles. I'm afraid of failure. I want to succeed so bad that I become afraid of failing.

That's the marvellous thing about seasteads; if a government fails, there's nothing much the people who live there can do about it. But if seasteads fail, they simply disassemble and go away.

That's the whole key to anything: Don't be afraid to fail. And is not afraid to fail.

The American press is extraordinarily free and vigorous, as it should be. It should be, not because it is free of inaccuracy, oversimplification and bias, but because the alternative to that freedom is worse than those failings.

The advantage of the cauliflower is that if all else fails, you can always cover it with melted cheese and eat it.

The Americans are so much more positive. They are much more in love with success. In Britain, they're a fairly envious bunch, and they love it if you fail.

The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed over without consideration.

The bottom line is, you can't be afraid to fail.

The Astronomer's Drinking Song Astronomers! What can avail Those who calumniate us; Experiment can never fail With such an apparatus.

The banks should give a full, fair, and accurate account of their financial positions and they are failing that test.

The best subjects are always people, who never fail to amaze me by their unpredictability.

The Bible is clear that those who fail to heed the Lord's discipline - whether nations, cities, or individuals - suffer devastating consequences.

The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one's own human failing.

The Business story is designed to trigger the listener to take an effective action. If it doesn't, the story fails.

The best way not to fail again is to be absolutely positive that when you do it this time, you're going to do it right.

The bondage of the Negro brought captive from Africa is one of the greatest dramas in history, and the writer who merely sees in that ordeal something to approve or condemn fails to understand the evolution of the human race.

The civil justice system is a backup system when the criminal justice system fails.

The church that preaches the gospel in all of its fullness, except as it applies to the great social ills of the day, is failing to preach the gospel.

The Christian faith is mysterious to the core. It is about things and beings that ultimately can't be put into words. Language fails. And if we do definitively put God into words, we have at that very moment made God something God is not.

The clergy [in the 14th century] on the whole were probably no more lecherous or greedy or untrustworthy than other men, but because they were supposed to be better or nearer to God than other men, their failings attracted more attention.

The cost of assessing risk is now often greater than the cost of failing.

The crisis of the fisheries is similar to our economy. This is not one fishery failing, but the whole system.

The critical image... must not only fail to capture its referent, but show its failure.

The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone.

The difference between those who succeed and those who fail isn't what they have'it's what they choose to see and do with their resources and their expertise of life.

The entire history of baby formula has been the history of one overlooked nutrient after another...and still to this day babies fed on the most "nutritionally complete" formula fail to do as well as babies fed human milk. Even more than margarine, formula stands as the ultimate test product of nutritionism and a fair index of its hubris.

The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.

The fearful are the failing.

The exercise of gratitude will never fail to strengthen your faith and renew your purpose.

The fact is that those who do not see themselves but who see others, who fail to grasp of themselves but who grasp others, take possession of what others have but fail to possess themselves. they are attracted to what others enjoy but fail to find enjoyment in themselves.

The failure-dichotomy principle: failure is good. Failure is not an option. Balance those in your brain.

The European single currency is bound to fail, economically, politically and indeed socially, though the timing, occasion and full consequences are all necessarily still unclear.

The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.

The fastest way to succeed is to double your rate of failure.

The gift is to the giver, and comes back most to him - it cannot fail

The free market doesn't exist. Every market has some rules and boundaries that restrict freedom of choice. A market looks free only because we so unconditionally accept its underlying restrictions that we fail to see them.

The future is always a wholeness, a sameness. We're all tall and happy there,' she said. 'This is why the future fails. It always fails. It can never be the cruel happy place we want to make it.

The great thing about Los Angeles is that you can get so much money in this town by constantly failing. You can get a lot of television deals that don't go anywhere, but you still get paid.