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" Progress requires setbacks; the only sure way to avoid failure is not to try. "

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" Because of my intense hopes for the youth of China, I feel very keenly my responsibility for their future success or failure. The fate of China lies in their hands. The responsibility for organizing and training them to become worthy citizens of China, able to undertake the tasks of Resistance and Reconstruction, is mine; I cannot evade it. "

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" One of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it's fear of failure, fear of being overtaken. "

" Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can't go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live. "

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" Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on. "

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" As a small business owner, you may not have the luxury to throw good money after bad, but if you can ascertain the 'why' of the failure, you can draw some significance from it and then turn it into something that clients will buy. "

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