Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the…

Many businesses fail because the owner wasn't willing to invest and wasn't educated on the difference between spending money frivolously and investing money into…

— Carol Roth

Businesses that fail to develop their staff are twice as likely to collapse. Firms seeking to reposition themselves for the economic upturn need to…

— David Blunkett

Most businesses fail because they want the right things but measure the wrong things, and they get the wrong results.

— Gordon Bethune

Those who invest only to get rich will fail. Those who invest to help others will probably succeed.

— Arthur Fry

Many invest wisely in business matters, but fail to invest time and interest in their most valued possessions: their spouses and children.

— Billy Graham

I understand that in these difficult economic times, the potential for any additional expense is not welcomed by American businesses. But in the long…

— Gary Locke

Ten percent of American businesses disappear every year. ... It's far higher than the failure rate of, say, Americans. Ten percent of Americans don't…

— Tim Harford

We're conditioned to let businesses fail, regardless of how much we like them. We believe that if the market doesn't want that bookstore to…

— Andrew Yang

“Businesses fail either because they leave their customers or because their customer leave them !”

— Andrew S. Grove

Nine out of ten businesses fail; so I came up with a foolproof plan - create ten businesses.

— Robert Kiyosaki

I know that you don't know, but you don't know that you don't know! By that I mean there are three reasons why individuals…

— Harvey Mackay

So I became a publisher by mistake - well, not quite by mistake, because I wanted to be an editor but I had to…

— Richard Branson

If managing were simple, why do the majority of businesses fail? If physicians had the same success rate as executives, the medical schools would…

— Michael Martin Hammer

“In fact, trying to grow too big, too fast is one of the top—and perhaps the saddest—reasons that small businesses fail.”

— Christy Wright

As the U.S. did during the Space Race, we must invest in our businesses and intellect to ensure America leads the clean energy economy…

— Paul Tonko