Quotes About Failing Business

#1. Health is the fastest growing failing business in western civilization.

E. Cheraskin

#2. You know, Hoosiers recognize pork when we see it. And they recognize what bailing out every failing business in America means - We're burying generations under a mountain range of debt.

Mike Pence

#3. Most entrepreneurs fail because they are working IN their business rather than ON their business.

Michael Gerber

#4. Too much of British business and industry feels similarly secure in the warm embrace of the European single market and is failing to recognise that today's great export opportunities lie in the developing world, particularly in Asia.

Nigel Lawson

#5. Build wealth as a by product of your business success. If wealth is your only objective in business, you will probably fail.

J. Paul Getty

#6. Without the right attitude, a business with everything going for it will fail.

Robert Heller

#7. 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.

Howard G. Hendricks

#8. When you see government leaders really bullying business, you know that government's economic policy is failing. They get angry and they get desperate.

Amity Shlaes

#9. Show business is a great place to fail upward ... and I guess that's what I've done.

Kurt Fuller

#10. No scientist is admired for failing in the attempt to solve problems that lie beyond his competence ... Good scientists study the most important problems they think they can solve. It is, after all, their professional business to solve problems, not merely to grapple with them.

Peter Medawar

#11. If you are attempting the impossible, you will fail.

Robert Heller

#12. Business and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving. It is about dreams. Usually, it doesn't work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. He came back and changed the world.

Mitt Romney

#13. Revolutionary products don't fail because they are shipped too early. They fail because they aren't revised fast enough.

Guy Kawasaki

#14. Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with.

Paula Abdul

#15. In show business the saying seems too often true: it isn't enough to succeed; someone else must fail.

Gene Tierney

#16. My business in life has been to think and learn, and to speak out with absolute freedom what I have thought and learned. The freedom is itself a positive and never-failing enjoyment to me, after the bondage of my early life.

Harriet Martineau

#17. Mind your business had been the motto of her childhood. But now that seemed like a failing in a friend.

Anita Diamant

#18. If you have managers reporting to managers in a startup, you will fail. Once you get beyond startup, if you have managers reporting to managers, you will create politics.

Mark Cuban

#19. In business, when you fail at something, when something doesn't work, you say okay, we've learned that that's not a path to go down.

Michael Bloomberg

#20. Whether it was turning around failing companies, rescuing the Olympics, or improving the business climate in Massachusetts, Mitt Romney has proven that he is ready to be president on Day One.

Timothy Griffin

#21. Any business that does not innovate will fail over time.

Nolan Bushnell

#22. A business model that relies on trickery is doomed to fail.

Charlie Munger

#23. 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.

Andrew Carnegie

#24. Business cannot succeed in a world that is failing.

Don Tapscott

#25. If a business is not ethical, it will fail, perhaps not right away but eventually.

John Templeton

#26. I realize that a writer's business is setting fire to Piggy Sneed-and trying to save him-again and again; forever.

John Irving

#27. I was born to fight devils and factions. It is my business to remove obstacles, to cut down thorns, to fill up quagmires and to open and make straight paths. If I must have some failing let me rather speak the truth with too great sincerity than once to act the hypocrite and conceal the truth.

Martin Luther

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

Robert McKee

#29. Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press

Warren Buffett

#30. Let's all commit ourselves to the basic civility of minding our own business. Failing that, let's go back to a time when we were nasty and judgmental, but only behind one another's backs.

Ayelet Waldman

#31. I believe that you have to understand the economics of a business before you have a strategy, and you have to understand your strategy before you have a structure. If you get these in the wrong order, you will probably fail.

Michael Dell

#32. What today's business reality makes clear is that brands cannot survive in a society that is failing economically, socially, ethically, and morally.

Simon Mainwaring

#33. The entire time I was modeling, I was trying and failing at businesses. In fact, we would have started our business much sooner had I been more successful.

Kathy Ireland

#34. The only thing worse than starting something and failing ... is not starting something.

Seth Godin

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. A business model that hasn't been tried before is always interesting, even if it's likely to fail.

Michael Arrington

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

Steve Blank

#39. Too many start up business fail simply because their owners continue to think and act like employees.

Michael LeBoeuf

#40. Debtors and idlers abounded in the colonial era, but failing in business was not so calamitous as falling from grace... In Early America, fear of failure loomed largest on Sunday. Monday morning dawned about the year 1800. By then, 'failure' meant an entrepreneurial failure.

Scott A. Sandage