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“Failure is successful when you fail.”
“Without doing one cannot fail. But one cannot succeed either.”
“My friend Richard Carrion, the CEO of Puerto Ricos top bank, once shared a line with me that Ill never forget: Robin, nothing fails like success. Powerful thought. Your business is most vulnerable ...”
“Nothing is as empowering as real-world validation, even if it's for failure.”
“Fail often and fail cheap.”
“There is no greater cruelty than a genius stumbling over something idiotic.”
“People need to have "the dignity of risk" and "the right to fail".”
“Whether solid rockets are more or less likely to fail than liquid-fuel rockets is debatable. More serious, though, is that when they do fail, it's usually violent and spectacular.”
“When you succeed, everyone wants to be part of it; but when you fail everyone seems outsider.”
“The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. The door that slams shut, the plan that got sidetracked, the marriage that failed. Or that lovely poem that didn't get ...”
“Failure is a social taboo.”
“Can we quantify failure in degrees and say, ‘on a 10 point scale this failure causes this much pain?’ Extremely difficult.”
“There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on. Yet most people are stricken with fear. They fear failure so much that they fail.”
“My friend Richard Carrion, the CEO of Puerto Rico’s top bank, once shared a line with me that I’ll never forget: “Robin, nothing fails like success.” Powerful thought. Your business is most vulnera...”