Business Quote by Russell L. Ackoff

The person who is afraid to risk failure seldom has to face success. I expected my players to make mistakes, as long as they…

— John Wooden

Things omitted are often more deadly than errors committed.

— Leo Buscaglia

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

— Jim Rohn

I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn't work.

— Thomas A. Edison

In some organizations, it is easy to say mistakes are okay when in truth it is a zero-defect organization. You will be remembered more…

— John Daly

We never like to admit to ourselves that we have made a mistake. Organizational structures tend to accentuate this source of failure of information.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Eighty-five percent of the reasons for failure are deficiencies in the systems and process rather than the employee. The role of management is to…

— W. Edwards Deming

Cumulative errors depend largely on the big surprises, the big opportunities. Not only do economic, financial, and political predictors miss them, but they are…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.

— May Sarton

Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.

— John Locke

The mistakes that people will make are of much less importance than the mistake that management makes if it tells them exactly what to…

— William L. McKnight

The weakness in the company is if we fail to execute.

— Kevin Rollins