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JACK WHITTAKER Successes are successes and failures are failures; we've definitely had our share of both, but we're...
CARL KURZ Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from ...
JOHN DEWEY Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from ...
ROGER VON OECH A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.
DOUG LARSON A life lived well will have failures that outnumber successes, but successes that outweigh the failu...
NATE HAMON I am a guy who is first of all a businessman. I'm not a stunt man. I'm not a daredevil. I...
EVEL KNIEVEL Each persons life has its share of successes and failures. Just keep in mind that you will experienc...
DANIEL TUCKER When a man blames others for his failures, it's a good idea to credit others with his successes.
HOWARD W. NEWTON I have had some great successes and great failures. I think every entrepreneur has. I try to learn f...
KEVIN O'LEARY I'm a New York businessman.
JOHN CATSIMATIDIS I'm not a guy who has ever seen the inside of a gym.
BILLY BURKE I'm a yogi, not a businessman.
BIKRAM CHOUDHURY Be proud of your successes and optimistic of your failures.
RICARDO MONTES I'm not a public official. I'm a businessman, I'm a builder, I'm a planner.
DONALD BREN We are at the end of an historic process, ... It has been a long path, a path full of successes and ...
JACQUES SANTER I'm a businessman and actor and I still make appearances.
CARL LEWIS We've had some successes and some failures.
WILLIE HOWARD These days I'm pretty much a businessman.
WELLINGTON MARA My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I l...
MAHATMA GANDHI A true businessman capitalizes off other people's failures & problems.
KERIZA Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dis...
SOURCE UNKNOWN You mark and celebrate errors, transforming failures into successes.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC The failures of Yesterday lead to the successes of today!
ORLANDON POWERS See, me, I don't run away. During my successes or my failures, I put it on me.
FAT JOE I'm the same businessman Donald Trump is.
JOHN CATSIMATIDIS You always hear that tragedies put sports in perspective, that they prove we shouldn't care this...
BILL SIMMONS There are more failures than there are successes.
GARY STIBEL I'm not an economist; I'm a hacker who has spent his career exploring and repairing large ne...
DAN KAMINSKY If the truth be known, most successes are built on a multitude of failures.
SOURCE UNKNOWN If the truth be known, most successes are built on a multitude of failures.
I think there's pressure, period, regardless of the past successes or failures of any of my friends,
JULIA LOUIS-DREYFUS With stand-up, it's more interesting to hear about people's failures than their successes.
AZIZ ANSARI I'm motivated by very small successes.
BETH BROOKE I am a Russell Brand fan. I'm one of the few people who think he did a cracker-jack job in '...
CATHERINE HICKS Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.
SAM WALTON Despite the successes, you remember the failures - rather lovingly.
HAROLD PRINCE A false leader takes credit for successes while blaming others for failures.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures a...
ARTHUR MILLER I think as humans, no one remembers their successes, everyone just remembers their failures.
MINDY KALING I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures, those who ...
BENJAMIN BARBER Since Meredith took the reins two years ago, Niagara Falls has seen a series of successes.
CHARLES GARGANO As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember a...
DAN O'BRIEN An over-reliance on past successes is a sure blueprint for future failures.
HENRY PETROSKI Persistence is like a chemical that can convert past failures into future successes.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I'm definitely a singer-songwriter. I'm somewhere in the vein between Elliott Smith and Jack...
BRYAN GREENBERG I don't think I'm a very good businessman. I act too much with my heart.
PELE It's frustrating; terrorism is rare and largely ineffectual, yet we regularly magnify the effect...
BRUCE SCHNEIER With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.
JACK NICHOLSON The most experienced person is one who has faced SUCCESS and FAILURES throughout his life
IRSHAD BAIG An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as ...
CHARLES KETTERING Having said that, I'm a huge Jack Nicholson fan because he just goes nuts in everything he does....
PAUL KANE I'm not Jack Nicholson. I'm not Brando. But I do mumble.
BENICIO DEL TORO Jack Nicklaus is the greatest winner I've ever seen.
DAN JENKINS Anyone who has seen me spin that heavy, giant wheel on television knows that I'm not a steroid u...
PAT SAJAK The person that refuses to share his today's blessings has simply refused to think about tomorrow.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) My personal opinion is that I'm in the media too much. I'm not a politician, I'm a busin...
VIKTOR VEKSELBERG There are many questions, but I cannot answer because I'm not a businessman, I am a climber.
ANATOLI BOUKREEV I've probably failed more often than anybody else in Silicon Valley. Those don't matter. I d...
VINOD KHOSLA I'm such a fan of Daniel Waters, who wrote the script, and also Mark Waters, his brother, who di...
SAMI GAYLE I'm a girl who loves to share information, especially empowering, life-changing, information.
MARILU HENNER My failures may be my greatest successes. It is in failure that I have often drawn closer to God, le...
MOTHER ANGELICA People either think I'm this totally savage, idiot-savant genius guy who's lucked out or the...
IRVINE WELSH I think I'm seen as trustworthy. I'm seen as having determination and persistence, and I'...
JOHN HOWARD I'm a guy who has more slapstick than Joe Cool moments in his day, so I'm not taking myself ...
KURT ELLING I'm not getting into a public debate with Jack Nicklaus.
TIM FINCHEM My life has been a blessing. I'm grateful for everything I do have and the places I'm going ...
LEAH LABELLE One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
ANTON CHEKHOV I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an ...
L.A. REID I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things m...
LORD ACTON A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON The greatest comedian I've ever seen is Jack Benny. He wasn't afraid of the silences.
BOB NEWHART It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Many people spend more time looking at their failures than focusing on their successes.
LOLLY DASKAL Don't live off your past successes or failures, live for the next big pursuit.
AARON LAURITSEN I'm a very conservative businessman. I don't work on credit. My father was the guy who taugh...
STEPHEN J. CANNELL We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.
RANDY K. MILHOLLAND We have been trained to broadcast our successes and hide our failures. But the truth is this: our fa...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH Carl was a vital part of any successes we achieved this season. He utilizes his resources better tha...
DOUG DIXON His failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, e...
BRIDGET RILEY We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were success...
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were success...
AMOS ALCOTT I'm really the candidate who has really lived his whole life in suburbia.
BOB MCDONNELL Tim Burton is an artist who has had a huge influence on me. I definitely share his sensibility. It&#...
ELIZABETH MARVEL I'm not as far along as Jack Nicklaus was at this age, but I'm trying.
TIGER WOODS Our character is shaped as much by our failures as it is by our successes.
JOHN GRAY You can't take credit for your successes if you don't take responsibility for your failures.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN I was thinking how complicated life is and how there are no simple roads or paths. We are a fabric o...
BELINDA JEFFREY Heaven radiates the light of the future and a is mark of repentance and the only way to get there is...
MUCOR DEDALIV RALUI Hell radiates the darkness of the future and a is mark of disobedience and the only way to get there...
MUCOR DEDALIV RALUI It's important to celebrate your failures as much as your successes. If you celebrate your failu...
SEBASTIAN THRUN I'm a businessman as well as an entertainer. The reason why is because I want to own whatever I&...
KEVIN HART Here I am, a not over-good business man, a second-rate engineer. I can make poor mechanical drawings...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as prac...
SOURCE UNKNOWN An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as prac...
CHARLES F. KETTERING There's a spectrum of those moments of connection and the moments we fail to connect, going from...
AIMEE BENDER I'm not usually the guy who has people hiding in his bushes and saying, 'Will you love me fo...
DOUG JONES The head has no answers, and the heart has no questions, Jack would say."

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RICHARD WAGAMESE Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but d...
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JACK VALENTI Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.
JACK VALENTI No one today knows what is indecent.
JACK VALENTI There were five children in my family, and arguing was how we used to entertain ourselves.
JACK STRAW It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father u...
JACK STRAW In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. L...
JACK STEINBERGER In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the famil...
JACK STEINBERGER I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.
JACK STEINBERGER I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation.
JACK STEINBERGER I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generatio...
JACK STEINBERGER I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depressio...
JACK STEINBERGER In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We wer...
JACK STEINBERGER