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" You want to ensure people can do it right 99 percent of time. When we have to fire one of our surgical trainees, it is never because they don't have the physical skills but because they don't have the moral skills - to practise and admit failure. "

Atul Gawande

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" Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best. "

" Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. "

" Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow. "

" Growing up, I had the weird fantasy list: I wanted to be Alice Cooper, Steven Spielberg, and Stan Lee. You have to have almost psychotic drive, because you're going to have years of failure. "

" A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. "

" The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. "

" There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. "

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" Whether by a Mack truck or by heart failure or faulty lungs, death happens. But life isn't really just about avoiding death, is it? It's about living. "

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" Do not wallow in your failure. Spend some time grieving, learn from it, and then move on. Constantly replaying what went wrong will not benefit you. Get involved in another company, another cause, another relationship. "

" Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways. "

" Every individual suffers from the fear of failure, but you can change your destiny only when you overcome it. "

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" When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work. "

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" 'Pressure' is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure. "