Quotes About Business Failures

#1. The copyright industry has managed to kill civil liberties for their own children, ushering in a dystopian surveillance machine, merely to avoid taking responsibility for their own business failures. I lack words to quantify my contempt for these utter parasites.

Rick Falkvinge

#2. As marriage was woman's business, unmarried women, though doubtless unfortunate, must simply be considered as business failures: harsh, doubtless, but in tune with the sink-or-swim capitalist times.

Ruth Brandon

#3. I've often felt there might be more to be gained by studying business failures than business successes.

Warren Buffett

#4. Having a support system is huge for writers. My parents were always encouraging and told me they were behind me, whether or not I made it in the business. My wife was always there for my successes and failures.

Stephen J. Cannell

#5. Every woman is a rebel.

Oscar Wilde

#6. The acceleration of the marketing process, the concentrating of manufacturing, greater diversification, increased international competition, have in turn speeded up product improvements, product innovations and new product introductions. The stakes are high, the failures costly.

Tom Sutton

#7. Frequent risk-takers have had their fair shares of failures and successes, hence, being confident in reaching their goals, they will usually seem insensitive to whether or not they look foolish or cool to other people.

Criss Jami

#8. I deeply regret those situations that have blemished the image of the University of Oklahoma, and I hope that I can rectify the embarrassment I have brought the university.

Brian Bosworth

#9. The amount of time people waste dwelling on failures rather than putting that energy into another project, always amazes me

Richard Branson

#10. Most so called FAILURES are only temporary defeats

Napoleon Hill

#11. As an entrepreneur building a multimillion-dollar business, your failures are going to be your greatest assets, provided you have a philosophy that addresses mistakes, strives to understand them, learns the key elements in them, and turns them into successes.

Ryan Blair

#12. Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

Richard Branson

#13. If a bank fails in China, they behead the men at the top of it that was responsible ... If we beheaded all of ours that were responsible for bank failures, we wouldn't have enough people left to bury the heads.

Will Rogers

#14. The sooner you accept the fact that you will have both successes and failures, the easier it will be to get your business and personal life headed in the right direction.

Harvey MacKay

#15. Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical, and having less imagination; they are more fitted for practical affairs, and would make fewer failures in business.

Charles Dudley Warner

#16. Taking time to create memories will stamp moments that will forever be etched on your heart and on the hearts of your children.

Eve M. Harrell

#17. Try to live with whatever you can afford and avoid putting yourself in an awkward position of thinking how you can afford what you have failed to afford, please free your life on earth.

Auliq Ice

#18. Surviving a failure gives you more self-confidence. Failures are great learning tools.. but they must be kept to a minimum.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

#19. Want of occupation is the bane of both men and women, perhaps more especially of the latter.

Horace Mann

#20. Frost? What is frost' she demanded in glorious arrogance.

Joanne Valiukas

#21. When we build on our strengths and daily successes - instead of focusing on failures - we simply learn more.

Tom Rath

#22. The best way I can get understanding from another person is to give this person the understanding, too. If I want them to hear my needs and feelings, I first need to empathize.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#23. Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future.

Joan D. Vinge

#24. Many of my biggest business endeavors were failures before they became a success. Some failed for as long as six years before they hit. Everyone around me thought I was crazy. You just have to stay at it.

Russell Simmons

#25. Look for the failures in your successes and the successes in your failures.

Bob Sutton

#26. Here I am, a not over-good business man, a second-rate engineer. I can make poor mechanical drawings. I play the piano after a fashion. In fact, I am one of those proverbial Jack-of-all-trades who are usually failures. Why I am not, I can't tell you.

Charles M. Schwab

#27. My friend, temporary setbacks and failures are prerequisites to success. They aren't signs that, "maybe it's just not supposed to be.

Clay Clark

#28. I've had many failures in terms of technological ... business ... and even research failures. I really believe that entrepreneurship is about being able to face failure, manage failure and succeed after failing.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

#29. Business schools are failing to teach the students about the risks of market failures. We need to include some material on market failures in the core of curriculum.

Pankaj Ghemawat

#30. The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none.

Philip Caldwell

#31. The markets were now run by technology, but the technologists were still treated like tools. Nobody bothered to explain the business to them, but they were forced to adapt to its demands and exposed to its failures - which was, perhaps, why there had been so many more conspicuous failures.

Michael Lewis

#32. The average for entrepreneurs is 3.8 failures before they finally make it in business.

John C. Maxwell

#33. Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs all the failures that make this a mean business, that's getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion.

Robert Redford