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I have had some great successes and great failures. I think every entrepreneur has. I try to learn from all of them.


Kevin O'Leary

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NEIL BURGER I really think it's a great opportunity for both myself and Kevin.
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MICHAEL SACHS I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.
JEAN KERR I think Scotland has some great stories.
BILLY BOYD I think as humans, no one remembers their successes, everyone just remembers their failures.
MINDY KALING I have good and bad days like everyone else. I just try to be positive and surround myself with grea...
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ANTOINE SMITH I've learned from every single fight, every single opponent - some great fighters.
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BELLA THORNE We all should face some failures in life and learn from them. We should accept it and move on.
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MICHAEL JOHNSON I am not a gifted person. I had only three assets: I was keenly interested, I accepted every challen...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope.
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INBEE PARK Acknowledge that you learn just as much, if not more, from your failures as you do from your success...
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DAN O'BRIEN My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I l...
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BUD GRANT I had to battle every inning. I was going to let them put the ball in play and there were some great...
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SOTONYE ANGA I won't sit here and say I've never had a pimple, but I try to have a really great diet, you...
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KOBE BRYANT I learn as much from my mistakes as I do from my successes.
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BLAKE POWERS It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that'...
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NATE HAMON I've made so many mistakes. But it is my feeling that you learn from failures, so I welcome them...
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KATE CLINTON I had great relationship with the Hispanic - we had a lot of Hispanics in the school actually from d...
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JOHN LANDIS See, me, I don't run away. During my successes or my failures, I put it on me.
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JOHN ASTIN My visit has been great, ... I got a chance to learn a lot from the faculty.
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ELIZABETH OLSEN Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.
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JEFF VANARSDEL If I had not try and taken chances, I would have miss many great opportunities in life.
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HEATHER O'NEILL I've always been a pretty good researcher," said Bronwyn modestly.
Oh, so that we sha...
DANIEL O'MALLEY The plates of the continental shelf - the world itself - had shifted, and their first concern was pu...
STEWART O'NAN The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When ...
P.J. O'ROURKE The Universe and Spirit do not understand limitations...PEOPLE invented limitations!
JENNIFER O'NEILL Not only have we not done the good things that God really wants us to do, but in fact, we’ve done ...
ERIN O'RIORDAN Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR By subsidiarity is meant the principle that responsibilities should be devolved to the lowest viable...
DENIS O'BRIEN For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the fles...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR There are some of us who have to pay for our faith every step of the way and who have to work out dr...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR We lost our innocence in the Fall, and our turn to it is through the Redemption which was brought ab...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be kno...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
P.J. O'ROURKE I have been told by the third grade teacher that my daughter Poppet is reading at middle school leve...
P.J. O'ROURKE My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings.
FLANN O'BRIEN When all else fails, there's always delusion.
CONAN O'BRIEN You would not want to be responsible for someone else’s happiness, so please do not hold someone e...
JENNIFER O'NEILL The yellow commuter train ran through canal-crossed fields as dull as graph paper. Always one saw ev...
JOSEPH O'NEILL I was always the girl growing up who just wasn’t quite like the rest of them. I liked working hard...
R.B. O'BRIEN You don't know. When I'm out there at night I feel close to my own body, I can feel my blood moving,...
TIM O'BRIEN They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these wer...
TIM O'BRIEN I was a coward. I went to the war.
TIM O'BRIEN To generalize about war is like generalizing about peace. Almost everything is true. Almost nothing ...
TIM O'BRIEN Linda was nine then, as I was, but we were in love...it had all the shadings and complexities of mat...
TIM O'BRIEN Well, right now I'm not dead. But when I am, it's like...I don't know, I guess it's like bein...
TIM O'BRIEN Together we understood what terror was: you're not human anymore. You're a shadow. You slip out of y...
TIM O'BRIEN It wasn't a question of deceit. Just the opposite; he wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn s...
TIM O'BRIEN In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seem...
TIM O'BRIEN It was my view then, and still is, that you don't make war without knowing why. Knowledge of course,...
TIM O'BRIEN He wished he could've explained some of this. How he had been braver than he ever thought possible, ...
TIM O'BRIEN And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever. That's what stories are for....
TIM O'BRIEN What sticks to memory, often, are those odd little fragments that have no beginning and no end...
TIM O'BRIEN It was very sad, he thought. The things men carried inside. The things men did or felt they had to d...
TIM O'BRIEN you're never more alive than when you're almost dead.
TIM O'BRIEN