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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. -- Walter Scott
Call it the Tiger Mom effect: In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. -- Naveen Jain
Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it. -- Desi Arnaz
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
I've had many failures in terms of technological... business... and even research failures. I really believe that entrepreneurship is about being able to face failure, manage failure and succeed after failing. -- Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
In certain businesses, I would say 10 failures to one success is a perfectly acceptable ratio. Because the failures die pretty quickly, they're not that expensive, and the successes can be really huge. -- Tim Harford
People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you! -- Don Johnson
Having a support system is huge for writers. My parents were always encouraging and told me they were behind me, whether or not I made it in the business. My wife was always there for my successes and failures. -- Stephen J. Cannell
By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there. -- Jonathan Kozol
In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road. -- Naveen Jain
Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs all the failures that make this a mean business, that's getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion. -- Robert Redford
The average member of the public thinks of 'business' as an impersonal corporate entity owned by the very rich and managed by overpaid executives. There is an almost total failure to appreciate that 'business' actually embraces - in one way or another - most Americans. -- Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
Here I am, a not over-good business man, a second-rate engineer. I can make poor mechanical drawings. I play the piano after a fashion. In fact, I am one of those proverbial Jack-of-all-trades who are usually failures. Why I am not, I can't tell you. -- Charles M. Schwab
Most employees want to be involved in a successful business and most employees are happy for people running successful businesses to be paid a reasonable wage and a market rate for it, provided they understand the reason. What they hate most of all is pay for failure. -- Stuart Rose
NBC's pilot season of 1994 is legendary in the business. In a world where failure is commonplace, we midwifed the birth of both 'Friends' and 'ER'. While 'ER' came essentially out of the blue, we'd been casting around for a 'Friends'-like show for some time at the network. -- Warren Littlefield
Entrepreneurialism, to me, means being able to fail. And I believe that kind of leadership is not necessary only in business, but it's necessary for running countries, too. You've got to be able to believe in something strongly enough that you want to do it even if there's a risk of failure. -- Bernard L. Schwartz
As Danand Ian over at the Lifestyle Business Podcast say: Rush to failure. -- Thomas A. Edison
One great cause of failure of young men in business is the lack of concentration. -- Andrew Carnegie
A lasting relationship with a woman is only possible if you are a business failure, -- J. Paul Getty
Failure or success in business is primarily not determined by mental capacity but by MENTAL ATTITUDES -- Walter Dill Scott
There are moments in business and in life when you have to say, "Failure is not an option." -- Donny Deutsch
Television is ultimately a business of failure. You try a lot of things, and most of it fails. -- Greg Berlanti
Running helped me learn how to deal with failure, and failure is a big part of the Internet business. -- Chad Hurley
Anyone who critically analyzes a business learns this: that the success or failure of an enterprise depends usually upon one man. -- Louis D. Brandeis
Business purpose and business mission are so rarely given adequate thought is perhaps the most important cause of business frustration and failure. -- Peter Drucker
The fear of failure has no business in a mind that bears the willingness to learn and grow from all events of failures. -- Edmond Mbiaka
Succeeding in business and failing at home is a cop-out. For no success in the workplace will ever make up for failure at home. -- Howard G. Hendricks
I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates. -- John D. Rockefeller
I feel like a failure." The expression comes so naturally that we forget it is a figure of speech: the language of business applied to the soul. -- Scott A. Sandage
I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large. -- Garry Shandling
I challenge every business person in America who has ever complained about the failure of the welfare system to try to hire somebody off welfare. And try hard. -- William J. Clinton
Don't let the fear of failure or failure as a whole stop you from becoming an entrepreneur. Failure doesn't define you or your business unless you allow it to. -- Jeet Banerjee
The dumb-manager theory of business problems just didn't hold water for me. There had to be a deeper reason why smart people would make decisions that lead to failure. -- Clayton M. Christensen
If everything came easy in business everyone would have a business and be millionaires. It takes hard work, consistent effort and courage to keeping fighting the monster of failure. -- Delaine Robins
In business, poor performance leads to bankruptcy or, at a minimum, a restructuring of the company. In American education, failure entitles the bankrupt system to even more taxpayer dollars. -- Cal Thomas

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