Quotes On Failure In Business

#1. Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

Walter Scott

#2. Peter Drucker says that the worst kind of failure in business is success in the things that don't matter.

J.D. Greear

#3. In today's media environment, invisibility is a fate much worse than failure for any business large or small.

Peg Samuel

#4. In our business, things look like a failure until they're not. It's pretty binary transitions.

Satya Nadella

#5. I challenge every business person in America who has ever complained about the failure of the welfare system to try to hire somebody off welfare. And try hard.

William J. Clinton

#6. If everything came easy in business everyone would have a business and be millionaires. It takes hard work, consistent effort and courage to keeping fighting the monster of failure.

Delaine Robins

#7. By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.

Jonathan Kozol

#8. Failure or success in business is primarily not determined by mental capacity but by MENTAL ATTITUDES

Walter Dill Scott

#9. In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.

Naveen Jain

#10. There are moments in business and in life when you have to say, "Failure is not an option."

Donny Deutsch

#11. There was no one with whom to share his world, and there seemed to be nothing he could do about it. In business he could do anything, achieve anything, he refused to accept failure - but he couldn't create a woman, and he couldn't fall in love with one who simply wasn't there.

Quent Cordair

#12. Fear of failure is closely connected with the apprehension of failure in any field of life, such as career, business, education of private life

Sunday Adelaja

#13. There are few experiences in life as painful and brutal as the failure of a small business. For a small business conceived and nurtured by its owner is like a living, breathing child. Its loss is no less traumatic than losing a loved one.

William Manchee

#14. The diet industry has a deep interest in the failure of dieters
if everyone got skinny, they'd go out of business.

Golda Poretsky

#15. Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.

Desi Arnaz

#16. This is important stuff, so it's crucial not to get too serious, to realize that this is all fun and games. The attitude 'business is serious, it's not fun and games' leads to financial failure, and I won't tolerate it in my company.

Martha N. Beck

#17. Warren Buffett said that he would not invest in any business where the owner hasn't failed at least twice. I love that truly wealthy and successful people understand that failure is part of the process.

Steve Harvey

#18. Most employees want to be involved in a successful business and most employees are happy for people running successful businesses to be paid a reasonable wage and a market rate for it, provided they understand the reason. What they hate most of all is pay for failure.

Stuart Rose

#19. Call it the Tiger Mom effect: In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option.

Naveen Jain

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

Anita Diamant

#21. One great cause of failure of young men in business is the lack of concentration.

Andrew Carnegie

#22. It also reflects a tendency in our society to focus on negatives. Doctors, for instance, study illness, not health. Business leaders analyse failure, not success. Economists study cost, not value. Philosophers mostly debate original sin, not original blessing.

Robert Holden

#23. Great leaders inspire greatness in others.

Lolly Daskal

#24. People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!

Don Johnson

#25. Failure promotes success only if you actually take the time to analyze your mistakes.." "Failure has to be separated from fault, and for many people that requires a bit of deprogramming, as we learn early on that they are one and the same." "In this framework, intention is extremely important.

Amanda Lang

#26. In business, the earning of profit is something more than an incident of success. It is an essential condition of success. It is an essential condition of success because the continued absence of profit itself spells failure.

Louis D. Brandeis

#27. The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Napoleon Hill

#28. The successes in the entertainment business are like one percent of the iceberg that you see, and the other ninety-nine percent, which is the rejection and the failure and the work and the toil and the sacrifice, is the rest of the iceberg that's below the water.

Jonathan Tucker

#29. I'm definitely happy with the way my career has gone, the success; but I even feel glad that I've experienced some failure in my life. That gives you perspective and humility about this business; it's good to realize that you're always just one movie away from not being in Vogue anymore.

Reese Witherspoon

#30. My major goal in business was to learn. I had legislated in my mind for failure the worse possible scenario was I would learn a lot regardless of the outcome. This goal was the foundation for success of the business. Peldi, Balsamiq

Kevin Kelly DO The Pursuit Of Xceptional Execution

#31. Willpower determines success in business, interpersonal relationships, health, whatever it is. All the activities in your life, success and failure in them, are dependent upon your ability to manifest will.

Frederick Lenz

#32. The dieting industry is the only profitable business in the world with a 98 percent failure rate.

Charlotte Markey

#33. NBC's pilot season of 1994 is legendary in the business. In a world where failure is commonplace, we midwifed the birth of both 'Friends' and 'ER'. While 'ER' came essentially out of the blue, we'd been casting around for a 'Friends'-like show for some time at the network.

Warren Littlefield

#34. 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

#35. With ruin staring you in the face, there is nothing worse to live through than a siege of waiting and hoping. If you manage to live through it, nothing can ever jar your nerves after that.

Sue Sanders

#36. 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

#37. The average member of the public thinks of 'business' as an impersonal corporate entity owned by the very rich and managed by overpaid executives. There is an almost total failure to appreciate that 'business' actually embraces - in one way or another - most Americans.

Lewis F. Powell Jr.

#38. The biggest cause of serious error in this business is a failure of communication,

Atul Gawande

#39. My father believed strongly, and taught me, that you can't let yourself get too high on a success or too low on a failure. In this volatile business, that's useful to know.

Samuel Goldwyn Jr.

#40. Entrepreneurialism, to me, means being able to fail. And I believe that kind of leadership is not necessary only in business, but it's necessary for running countries, too. You've got to be able to believe in something strongly enough that you want to do it even if there's a risk of failure.

Bernard L. Schwartz

#41. The greatest challenge to most innovation centers around the world is many nations' punitive attitudes towards failure. In most of the world, if your first business fails, no one will work with you again. But, trial and error is the genesis of innovation.

Jay Samit

#42. Over commitment in business is usually due to a lack of faith, which results in fear - specifically, the fear of failure. But if we really believe God is in control, then we also should believe He's able to make us successful while we are keeping our lives in balance.

Larry Burkett

#43. Kafka regarded the end of "The Metamorphosis"- its composition in interrupted by a business trip- as "unreadable." He also wrote in his diary that he found it"bad," but of course Kafka relished his failure. Failure is precisely what he expected and resolved to accomplish- and he hid behind it.

Franz Kafka

#44. 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

#45. In business, poor performance leads to bankruptcy or, at a minimum, a restructuring of the company. In American education, failure entitles the bankrupt system to even more taxpayer dollars.

Cal Thomas

#46. Nothing is more tragic than failure to discover one's true business in life, or to find that one has drifted or been forced by circumstance into an uncongenial calling.

John Dewey

#47. 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

#48. Quotes = Success
Music = Success
Failure = Success
Loyalty = Success
Books = Success
Mistakes = Success
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These are the lessons for today, try to put them in your bag and start using them one by one!

Deyth Banger