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The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.

The main thing is not a matter of wanting to win; the main thing is being scared to lose.

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

The man who forms the habit of beginning without finishing has simply formed the habit of failure.

The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

The man who lives for himself is a failure. Even if he gains much wealth, position or fortune, he is still a failure. The man who lives for others has achieved true success. A rich man who consecrates his wealth and his position to the good of humanity is a success.

The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.

The more congenial page of some tenth-rate poeticule worn out with failure after failure and now squat in his hole like the tailless fox, he is curled up to snarl and whimper beneath the inaccessible vine of song.

The more failure you can accept, the greater your chance of success.

The most important lesson I've learned from sports is how to be not only a gracious winner, but a good loser as well. Not everyone wins all the time, as a matter of fact, no one wins all the time. Winning is the easy part, losing is really tough. But, you learn more from one loss than you do from a million wins. You learn a lot about sportsmanship.

The only failure is not to try.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

The only people who never fail are those who never try

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

The highest happiness on earth is marriage. Every man who is happily married is a successful man even if he has failed in everything else.

The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.

The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

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.

The products we design are going to be ridden in, sat upon, looked at, talked into, activated, operated, or in some way used by people individually or en masse. If the point of contact between the product and the people becomes a point of friction, then the industrial designer has failed. If, on the other hand, people are made safer, more comfortable, more eager to purchase, more efficient-or just plain happier-the industrial designer has succeeded.

The only real failure in life is the failure to try.

The real loser of our times is the one who is expected to win.

There are agencies who are good losers, places where losing is not only accepted, it becomes part of the culture, it is expected. That is debilitating. Don't let that happen to you. At Deutsch we go into every pitch assuming we are the Yankees. It's amazing what happens when you go into a room of smart, hungry people and say, "Failure is not an option." People are galvanized.

The only real failure is trying to second-guess the taste of an audience. Nothing comes out of that except a kind of inward humiliation.

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.