Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
When you experience a failure as a leader, don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.
I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
We are equally glad and surprised at Winston's return to office. It shows that he was built for success that he should have declined to withdraw and sulk over a superficial failure.
I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
One of the things that happens that's challenging within the democratic process is that people say, 'Look at this failure, so we should totally change this whole thing.' And then you add in tons of bureaucratic process and checks and balances, and all of a sudden, it doesn't work that well.
Much worse than the unavoidable inefficiencies of large government is the failure to fund the government we need.
Failure is always an option.
You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.
If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.
In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport.
Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.
People are afraid of failure - they don't like to work so hard and have people keep saying, 'No.' I think that's what people fear most.
Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.
America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.
I think our failure as a caucus has been not to focus on economic issues. I think we - and I'm supportive of all the issues that - that we talk about, but you need an economic - a robust, economic message that - that covers everybody.
Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keeps going and trying to find some sort of fulfillment regardless of his perpetual failure record. That's a form of hope, a form of optimism. Really hokey I know, but it's true.
Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.
Has Bill Clinton inspired idealism in the young, as he himself was inspired by John F. Kennedy? Or has he actually reduced their idealism? Surely part of the answer lies in Clinton's personal moral lapse with Monica Lewinsky. But more important was his sin of omission - his failure to embrace a moral cause beyond popularity.
I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.
For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.
A fictionalised memoir of my father would be a failure as a novel.
It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
I don't take it very seriously. You shouldn't let your success get to your head or failure get to your heart. This is most commonly said. But people don't really practise it. I don't see myself as a celebrity; it has not sunk in. I just see myself as someone doing a nine-to-six job like a techie.
The failure of Lehman Brothers demonstrated that liquidity provision by the Federal Reserve would not be sufficient to stop the crisis; substantial fiscal resources were necessary.
The British health care system is a blueprint for the failure of Obamacare, as it is structured.
Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent.
In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.
