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What people often ask me is, 'What are the ingredients of Silicon Valley?' While the answer to that is complex, some of the ingredients I talk about are celebrating entrepreneurship, accepting failure, and embracing a mobile and diverse workforce. -- John Roos
Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure. -- Ernest Hemingway
Success is the process of not accepting failure. -- Georgette Mosbacher
I guess just accepting failure is the thing. I don't really look at it as a failure. I look at them as learning lessons and things you grow from but not really a failure, because that's life. -- Daniella Alonso
Failure is a word that I simply don't accept. -- John H. Johnson
You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure. -- George Cukor
You have to be able to accept failure to get better. -- LeBron James
Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success. -- Rickey Henderson
What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying. -- Michael Jordan
Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids. -- Jeb Bush
In the future, financial firms of any type whose failure would pose a systemic risk must accept especially close regulatory scrutiny of their risk-taking. -- Ben Bernanke
You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives. -- John Poindexter
If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk. -- Rosalynn Carter
Ken Lay has, does and will continue to accept responsibility for the fall of Enron. He was the man at the controls. But failure is not a crime. -- Michael Ramsey
An open-minded and diverse population that readily shares information, encourages experimentation, accepts failure and dispenses with formality and hierarchy is what makes Silicon Valley the successful hub that it is. -- Vivek Wadhwa
The sooner you accept the fact that you will have both successes and failures, the easier it will be to get your business and personal life headed in the right direction. -- Harvey Mackay
We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success. -- Arianna Huffington
Failure is enriching. It's also important to accept that you'll make mistakes - it's how you build your expertise. The trick is to learn a positive lesson from all of life's negative moments. -- Alain Ducasse
The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms. -- Neal Boortz
Learning to accept failure on multiple levels is, to my way of thinking, the key to become a world-class therapist. But that means humility, and setting your ego aside, while you develop superb new technical skills. -- David D. Burns
I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure. -- Emanuel Steward
I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my political life in the past and I understand very well it is hard to accept your own failure. -- Chen Shui-bian
Just once it might be instructive to pretend you're accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank. -- Robert Breault

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