Mark Pincus Quotes

Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.

You learn nothing form your successes except to think too much of yourself. It is from failure that all growth comes, provided you can recognize it, admit it, learn from it, rise above it, and then try again.

We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

From success, you learn absolutely nothing. From failure and setbacks conclusions can be drawn. That goes for your private life as well as your career.

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness. And if it be said, that continual success is a proof that a man wisely knows his powers,--it is only to be added, that, in that case, he knows them to be small.

Unfortunately, it is human nature for us to only learn and grow from a place of emptiness. It's hard to learn when we are winning and on top of the world.

I've failed way more than I've succeeded.

I think everybody has ups and downs in their lives. We learn from the biggest disappointments, right? You learn how to be humble to yourself and to be humble to others.

I was very lucky to get well known much later in life. You need to have flopped quite a few times to get a sense of how little any of it has to do with you.

As a boss, as a CEO, as a creative director, as a chef, I've learned that failure will always come. I've learned to give it a big squeeze, smile at it, humble myself to it and then use it as a springboard to send me on my way to strength, success, and fulfillment.

What if the Secret to Success is Failure?.

We Don't always succeed in what we try, certainly not by the world's standards, but I think you'll find it's the willingness to keep trying that matters most.

Keep your head up in failure and your head down in success.

Successful people fail often, and, worth noting, learn more from that failure than everyone else.

You learn as much from failure as from success, Dad always says. Though no one admires you for it.

We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just the other side of failure.

One way to learn to do something right is to do something wrong. Failure must teach us, or surely success will not reward us.

The balance between confidence and humility is best learned through extensive experience and mistakes.

It is so important for me to try, and having tried I look back on failure and success as if it were all the same.

Failure-it centers me. Too much success has me thinking, All right, what's goin' on?

No matter what one does, regardless of failure or success, the experience is a form of success in itself.

I have to say I've made many mistakes, and been humbled many, many times. But you know what? It's never too late to learn.

Losing is a learning experience. It teaches you humility. It teaches you to work harder. It's also a powerful motivator.

I was lucky in that I had a mother that was full of this colloquial wisdom and she used to say to me 'You know, failure is not the opposite of success, it's the stepping stone to success. There is nobody who has not failed along the way.' So I think its very important for young women, especially as they are starting in life, to recognize that because otherwise, they only see people's success. So, when I speak, I speak of my failures.

I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success.