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You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that is where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.

But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock.

There comes a point in your moviegoing life where you look at the screen and then you look at the world and you ask, What is going on? You want the movies to show you the chaos and mess and risk and failure that are normal for a lot of us. Generally, the movies hide all of that.

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 am talking about welfare for all. Without it, you are going to have warfare for all.

To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.

I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.

Do not come home a failure.

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

I have become a professional failure - in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment.

America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.

In Britain, by contrast, we still think that class plays a part in determining a person's life chances, so we are less inclined to celebrate success and less inclined to condemn failure. The upshot is that it is much easier to be a failure in Britain than it is in America.

Critics? Do not talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I do not.

Success is always less funny than failure.

Most employees want to be involved in a successful business and most employees are happy for people running successful businesses to be paid a reasonable wage and a market rate for it, provided they understand the reason. What they hate most of all is pay for failure.

His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and do not let the fear of failure stop you.

The hippy movement was a failure.

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.

There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing.

Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.

I have always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.