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Failure Quotes by Tim Harford
- 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 disappear…
- There's nothing wrong with a plan, but remember Von Moltke's famous dictum that no plan survives first contact with the enemy. The danger is a…
- If the whole process of learning from failure means discarding stuff that's not working, but in fact, our natural reaction is to keep going, to…
- Failure is inevitable; it happens all the time in a complex economy.
More Failure Quotes
- Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to… — Karen Armstrong
- Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. — Lance Armstrong
- For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take… — Mary Kay Ash
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so. — Marcus Aurelius
- Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight. — Marcus Aurelius
- Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost… — Paul Auster
- Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all. — Charles Babbage
- Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on… — Jensen Ackles
- It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. — Roger Babson
- The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing… — Edward Bach
- People think when you have a, quote, 'bank failure,' that that is the end of the bank. And it isn't necessarily. — Michele Bachmann