Top 78 Fail Big Quotes
#1. Fail big. Fail better.
Try again. Without looking for a shelter.
Debasish Mridha
#2. I think everyone has a certain kind of formula in their life. When you deviate from that formula, you're going to fail big or you're gonna win big.
Sylvester Stallone
#3. If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism - the failure to fail, and fail big, in an era of unprecedented volatility and ambiguity.
Tom Peters
#7. If a bank's too big so that it can't fail without hurting our economy, well then, it's too big.
Martin O'Malley
#8. We support too big to fail. We want the government to be able to take down a big bank like JP Morgan and it could be done. We think Dodd-Frank, which we supported parts of, gave the FDIC the authority to take down a big bank.
Jamie Dimon
#9. Dream a dream so big that unless God intervenes it will fail.
Hudson Taylor
#10. Why is it that big companies fail when the technology changes? It happens in every industry, so what's the pattern? What are they all doing wrong?
Jesse Schell
#11. We're still under the weight of this impression that the ocean is too big to fail, that the planet is too big to fail.
Sylvia Earle
#12. Once you truly understand that it is okay to lose or fail, you are free, you have nothing to fear, and only then, can nothing in this world hold you back.
Yahya Mohamed
#13. If you think too-big-to-fail banks are not worthy of investment because of their impossible-to-read balance sheets, well then, don't buy them.
Barry Ritholtz
#14. It was a crushing defeat, but it put iron in my backbone and sulphur in my blood. I knew at least what it was to fail. I knew what it was to attempt something big.
Henry Miller
#15. I don't think anybody's too big to fail. I think the - I think if what you've got is sort of a large number of institutions who are going to fail, then that ends up affecting the system.
Marc Lasry
#16. Ecology is the new theology; big history is the new Genesis. Those who fail to understand that evidence is modern-day scripture, and that the world we live in is an honorable world, betray God and humanity in the most egregious of ways.
Michael Dowd
#17. When you try to do something big its hard to fail completely.
Timothy Ferriss
#18. Any bank that is too big to fail is too big. Period.
Robert Reich
#19. If a financial institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.
Bernie Sanders
#20. I have a feeling that very soon I'm going to fail very, very big. I'm going to try something and everybody's going to be like, 'What was she thinking?'
Jessica Chastain
#21. Folks, this government isn't too big to fail, it's too big to succeed.
Sarah Palin
#22. My anger swelled. I couldn't believe I'd come this far, lost Tyson, suffered through so much, only to fail - stopped by a big stupid monster in a baby-blue tuxedo kilt. Nobody was going to swat down my friends like that! I mean ... nobody, not Nobody. Ah, you know what I mean.
Rick Riordan
#23. It was a big decision to leave the system because many people said I would fail.
Li Na
#24. Let's dare to do something so big that if God is not in it, we are doomed to fail.
Edmund Chan
#25. Attempt something so big, that unless God intervenes, it's bound to fail.
Jamie Buckingham
#26. I'm really concerned that too-big-to-fail has become too-big-for-trial.
Elizabeth Warren
#27. Too-big-to-fail, meet small-enough-to-jail.
Matt Taibbi
#28. We need to think deeply about whether we can sustain banks that are not only too big to fail, but potentially too big to bail.
George Osborne
#29. What's a dick?" Parenting fail number five-hundred-and-eighty-two of today. "Nothing, babe. I said tick. A tick is a bug." "So you called that person a bug?" "Yup. A big bug.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#30. The Greek debt issue, for example, is such a threat because if that country ever defaulted, it might cause some bank that's 'too big to fail' to actually fail.
Jerry A. Webman
#31. Dream big!
But not so big that it becomes a mess, and you may never reach reality.
Hasil Paudyal
#32. Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.
Allen Neuharth
#33. Forget about banks that are too big to fail; the focus should be on cities, municipalities and countries that are too big to fail.
Andrew Ross Sorkin
#34. You know how alchoholics who go to AA are always using that phrase "one day at a time"? They say that because to say "I will never drink again" is just too damn much. It's big an hard and bound to fail.
Cheryl Strayed
#35. If you're going to fail, you might as well fail at the big ones.
Dean Kamen
#36. You can't have some institutions that are protected by the law, not allowed to fail, and not held to account, and all the other companies in America are allowed to fail. You can't have equal justice under law and too big to fail.
Eric Schneiderman
#37. If the idea is really new and unique and big, other people will all think it is bad and is going to fail.
Peter Diamandis
#38. I'm 48. For a while after 'The Jerk' (movie) I had a feeling of failure. I was a little scared. First people discover you and they love you. You get big and then you fail. And people are glad that you fail. But I've always come back and I've started to trust myself.
Steve Martin
#39. The banks that each of you gentlemen cater to have been allowed to become too big. Not too big to fail, as you have said in the past, but destined to fail because they are too big.
Kenneth Eade
#40. At least Bank of America got its name right. The ultimate Too Big to Fail bank really is America, a hypergluttonous ward of the state whose limitless fraud and criminal conspiracies we'll all be paying for until the end of time.
Matt Taibbi
#41. The sad fact is that today most of the heads of big businesses in America have become so confused or intimidated that, so far from carrying the free market to argument to the enemy, they fail to defend themselves adequately even when attacked.
Henry Hazlitt
#43. I guess the big thing to say about 'Pig Farm' is that none of us knows if it works, and we're going in blind. It's in the tradition of 'Urinetown,' kind of - but that's a pretty small tradition. It's possible that it can fail.
Denis O'Hare
#44. If you hire the right people and have big enough dreams, you'll usually get there. And even if you fail, you'll probably learn something important.
Anonymous
#45. Most Ohioans would be surprised to know that the same Wall Street megabanks which received bailouts from taxpayers in 2009 also receive taxpayer-funded advantages today simply because of their 'too big to fail' status.
Sherrod Brown
#46. What I believe is that when it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason. You are here for a reason
and it's not to fail and die.
Ransom Riggs
#47. The heart of the 2008 financial crisis was a coterie of reckless financial executives, working for too-big-to-fail financial companies, who were handsomely compensated for taking risks that almost ruined the economy when they failed.
Gary Weiss
#48. The term 'too big to fail' must be excised from our vocabulary.
Jamie Dimon
#49. I'm probably a believer in abandoning too-big-to-fail firms or breaking them up in some way so that the system can try to take care of itself. I imagine you're not going to get there, and therefore, I suspect regulation is what's going to be required.
Andrew Ross Sorkin
#50. Quite often very talented people FAIL because they believe they are too big to do the little things, while the most successful amongst us are quite willing to do the little things. They truly are BIG people.
Bob Proctor
#52. There are many people who have big plans but their big plans never come true. The reason is, too many people have big plans but fail to keep their small agreements.
Robert Kiyosaki
#53. This was yet another consequence of turning Wall Street partnerships into public corporations: It turned them into objects of speculation. It was no longer the social and economic relevance of a bank that rendered it too big to fail, but the number of side bets that had been made upon it.
Michael Lewis
#54. Think doubt and fail, think victory and succeed
Ann Maxwell
#55. I think changing the Democratic Party platform [at the convention] is a great place to start. It should include expanding Social Security, a $15 minimum wage, and breaking up too-big-to-fail banks on Wall Street - among other Sanders priorities.
Ben Wikler
#56. If you have 'too big to fail' for cities or for states, and they believe they'll be bailed out, they'll continue to make unwise decisions.
Rand Paul
#57. The only way to make sure no bank is too big to fail is to make sure no bank is too big.
Robert Reich
#58. Too Big To Fail is nothing compared to Too Holy To Fall.
Toba Beta
#59. Commissions add up, taxes are a big drag, margin ain't cheap. A good accountant costs money as well. The math on this one is obvious, yet investors often fail to recognize it: Keep your costs low and your turnover lower, and you will win in the end.
Barry Ritholtz
#61. We fail, not because of big problems, but because of small purposes.
John C. Maxwell
#62. I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.
Rush Limbaugh
#63. This is the big reason most humorists fail. Drunks don't read books.
Garrison Keillor
#64. Obama isn't just too big to fail. He's too big to know. Obama is so vital to the country and to the world, he must be kept out of the loop in order to save him from his failed presidency.
Rush Limbaugh
#65. I think that the Occupy movement is, in one sense, the public saying that they should be the ones to decide who's too big to fail.
Alan Moore
#66. We talk about institutions that are too big to fail - I think the story is as much about people who think they are too big to fail.
Andrew Ross Sorkin
#67. She was like a bank too big in her mother's economy to fail,
Jonathan Franzen
#69. If your business plan depends on suddenly being "discovered" by some big shot, your plan will probably fail. Nobody suddenly discovers anything. Things are made slowly and in pain.
Hugh MacLeod
#70. Dare to dream big. Never fear to fail. Take actions with love.
Debasish Mridha
#71. Wall Street can never be allowed to threaten main street again. No bank can be too big to fail, no executive too powerful to jail.
Hillary Clinton
#72. You can sum up what has killed capitalism in four words: too big to fail.
Gerald Celente
#73. What Obama is saying is simple: The United States has become Too Big To Fail.
John Podhoretz
#74. Are the computers going to fail? one of the artists asked him, licking ketchup off her thumb. She asked it like she was hoping he'd say yes. Lincoln couldn't remember her name, but she had all-over-the-place hair and big brown eyes. He didn't like thinking about her with an X-Acto knife.
Rainbow Rowell
#75. You should treat your marriage like a business that you wouldn't want to let fail. I'm a big advocate of therapy and third-party intervention.
Lisa Ling
#76. I wake up every morning fearing I am going to fail. But I love a challenge, big or small. There's so much I want to do. I only sleep four hours a night.
Michelle Mone
#77. I think that markets classically fail in cases where there are public goods that provide benefits that people cannot capture. The big debate is how big these public goods are, where they exist, things of that sort.
Peter Thiel
#78. Rather than justice for all, we are evolving into a system of justice for those who can afford it. We have banks that are not only too big to fail, but too big to be held accountable.
Joseph E. Stiglitz
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