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" YouTube began as a failed video-dating site. Twitter was a failed music service. In each case, the founders continued to try new concepts when their big ideas failed. They often worked around the clock to try to overcome their failure before all their capital was spent. Speed to fail gives a startup more runway to pivot and ultimately succeed. "

Jay Samit

Music

Ideas

" We all have anxiety about things. We all have little insecurities, but eventually you have to face your fears if you want to be successful, and everybody has some fear of failure. "

" Success is 99 percent failure. "

" Pharmaceutical companies are enjoying unprecedented profits and access with this Administration. Yet the Republicans' prescription drug plan for seniors has been a colossal failure, and over 43 million Americans wake up every morning without health insurance. "

" Like anyone, I'm scared of failure. That drives you to work really hard. "

David Droga

Failure

Hard

" One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. "

" When my father left us, my mother went back to school immediately. She went to school in the day while we were at school, and she worked at night. She worked very hard to never let someone define her as a victim or a failure. "

" The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape. "

" I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about. "

" The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure. "

" Our inner beliefs trigger failure before it happens. They sabotage lasting change by canceling its possibility. We employ these beliefs as articles of faith to justify our inaction and then wish away the result. I call them belief triggers. "

" 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. "

" Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding. "

" Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure. "

" The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. "

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

" Acting allows me the freedom to let go, to be in the moment, to be spontaneous. I no longer have the fear of losing, of 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. "

" Building a great team is the lifeblood of any startup, and finding great talent is one of the hardest and costliest tasks any CEO will ever face. "

" My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year. "

" Failure is always an option. "

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

" Our system provides for a winner to take office on January 20th, and he is expected to take command of the ship of state. Failure to do so, characterized by hesitation and indecision, will harm the national interest. "

" Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure. "

" Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure. "

" Iraq's Sunnis need to be brought back into the fold. They need to feel as though they have a stake in the success of Iraq rather than a stake in its failure. "

" Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. "

George Edward Woodberry

Success

True

Worst

" There are many victories worse than a defeat. "

" I don't want to feel like a failure to my daughter. She's the best thing I've ever done. Buffy - pretty great and all, but Charlotte's way better. "

Sarah Michelle Gellar

Best

Better

Great

" It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt - in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure - to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to both white and black. "