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" The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged... and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion. "
Alan Greenspan
Finance
Nature
Long
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" 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
Business
Leadership
Believe
" Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all. Without it, you're going to have warfare for all. "
Jerry Brown
Food
Medical
American
" The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is. "
Allan Bloom
Here
Belief
Failure
" It's not that we fly by the seat of our pants. We're not afraid of failure. "
Craig Ferguson
Afraid
Failure
Fly
" You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven't been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can. "
Alan Greenspan
Imagination
Stretch
Value
" Ilaiyaraaja is my most favourite music director. His music was my lullaby, his music was my food, his music was my childhood, his music was my first love, his music was my failure, his music was my first kiss, my first love failure, my success... he is in my blood. "
Dhanush
Success
Music
Love
" The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination. In the past, few women have tried, and even fewer have succeeded. "
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
Past
Women
Social
" I guess I'm motivated by the fear of failure to some degree and knowing what can happen when you don't do things the way you need to do them to have success. "
Nick Saban
Failure
You
Way
" For diabetes in particular, we know there's a relationship between lack of glucose regulation and complications like blindness and kidney failure. So if you were diabetic and you knew that you could get your glucose in a tight, normal range just by adjusting your lifestyle, wouldn't that be great? "
Eric Topol
Relationship
Know
You
" We encourage failure among young men; we celebrate it... It's a badge of honour for a man. Yet attach those same words and experiences to a woman, and society writes her off. "
Whitney Wolfe Herd
Failure
Men
Words
" To err is human, but it feels divine. "
Mae West
To Err Is Human
Human
Failure
" In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain. "
Frederick William Robertson
Failure
World
Work
" Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation. "
Paul Twitchell
Why
Motivation
Living
" There are certainly times when baseball is much more than bread and circus, times when baseball resonates deeply and meaningfully with many, many people, and times when a game that is built around overcoming failure can teach us all a few important lessons. "
Theo Epstein
People
Overcoming
Failure
" I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure. "
Jean Kerr
Success
Think
Rules
" Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk. "
Brennan Manning
Failure
Potential
Without
" Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail. "
Henry Petroski
How
Understanding
Engineering
" For me, utter failure is to make a film that people pay their money to go see and they don't like. "
Peter Jackson
People
See
Failure
" Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach. "
Roger von Oech
Work
Remember
Opportunity
" Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets. "
Michael Korda
Study
Never
Hidden
" I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure. "
Anne Baxter
Good
Out
Failure
" Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist inadequacy. I thought it had more to do with being Jewish. The Jews I knew growing up didn't do 'do-it-yourself.' When my father needed to hammer something he generally used his shoe, and the only real tool he owned was a pair of needle-nose pliers. "
Ayelet Waldman
Father
Failure
Growing Up
" Not many people are really that meticulous with what they do, I suppose, but I'm just a control freak and terribly afraid of failure or regret. I work very hard on these things. "
George Michael
Failure
Regret
People
" Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom. "
Erik Erikson
Children
Love
Mistake
" Success is often built on the shoulders of failure - from which new configurations emerge. "
Kevin Reilly
Which
Success Is
Failure
" How important is failure - yes, failure - to the health of a thriving, innovative business? So important that Ratan Tata, chairman of India's largest corporation, gives an annual award to the employee who comes up with the best idea that failed. "
Naveen Jain
Business
Award
Health
" My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about. "
Dean Kamen
About
Too
Talk
" The power of fear of failure, with will to win, is an incredible force. I don't think we should be worried about having a fear of failure; I think it's quite natural. If you surveyed any top businessman or any top athlete, I bet if they were truthful, they would all say they've got a fear of losing and a fear of failure. "
John Caudwell
Losing
Failure
Win
" When you experience a failure as a leader, don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks. "
Naveen Jain
Experience
Leader
Opportunity
" Lincoln made mistakes. Roosevelt made mistakes. Eisenhower made mistakes. The Battle of the Bulge was the biggest intelligence failure in American military history, much bigger than any in Vietnam or now. We didn't know that the Soviets were moving 400,000 or 500,000 troops. We missed it. "
Rudy Giuliani
Mistakes
Failure
History