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" Confidence is contagious, but so is failure. Even the Yankees will lose if you persuade them that they will. "

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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" In my view, the first requirement for success for an entrepreneur is to dream big. The second aspect that prevents entrepreneurs from succeeding is fear of failure. "

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" Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best. "

" No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe. "

" Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. "

" The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures. "

" Never be afraid of failure. And don't stop yourself from doing something you want to do because of what others might think. Only you know yourself best. "

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" Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure. "

" Fear of failure has always been my best motivator. "

" As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything. "

" The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities. "

Benjamin E. Mays

" For me, it's always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment. "

" Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure. "

Benjamin Disraeli

" Sometimes we never see what failure is and often fail to recognize it. "

" Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo. "

" Some social scientists say that in-group/out-group biases are hard-wired into the human brain. Even without overt prejudice, it is cognitively convenient for people to sort items into categories and respond based on what is usually associated with those categories: a form of statistical discrimination, playing the odds. "

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

" I'm troubled by what I see as a sort of rooting for Trump's failure, because that is rooting for our own failure. "

" If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure. "

" Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. "

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" 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. "

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" The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt. "

" The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure. "

" Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. "

" Failure has gone to his head. "

" Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. "

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