James C. Collins Quotes

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

If you do something and it goes wrong, you learn from it and you move on.

Keep your eyes open. Make mistakes - because you will anyway - and remember that small stuff stinks but that it's also essential.

Fail again, fail better.

You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.

Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.

There's no substitute for experiencing ups and downs - seeing how it's okay that things are overwhelming or broken sometimes and how companies recover from mistakes.

Failure happens to everyone in this game. It's not something worth harping on. What is worth focusing on is how you respond to that failure.

I cannot think of any venture I have initiated where an earlier failure wasn't an important precursor to an eventual success.

Everything that I do should be wrong, but I started really young, and I just learned how to learn. I would fail, and I would figure out why that didn't go right and do it again.

How you succeed is how you deal with failure. Whatever way you dress it up, something hasn't worked.

Failure teaches you a lot more than success.

At the end of the day, we're goalkeepers, and we live with making mistakes. We learn from a young age that you can make a mistake at any point.

I've made game-winners, I've missed game-winners. I've pitched shutouts, and I've given up 10 runs. You just deal with the experiences and learn how to get over the bad outings and learn from them, so they don't occur time and time again. You take what you did right from the good games and turn those into, 'How do I repeat that success?'

What if the Secret to Success is Failure?.

You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.

You can never learn less; you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes.

You can only really learn from failure ... To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.

Losing teaches you something

Life is not life unless you make mistakes

We all make mistakes, but the people who thrive from their mistakes are the successful ones.

How many people are completely successful in every department of life? Not one. The most successful people are the ones who learn from their mistakes and turn their failures into opportunities.

That this awareness of my own fallibility will prevent me from making many mistakes doesn't alter the fact that I'm bound to make a great many mistakes anyway. But if we fall, we get up again!