Business Failure Quotes

In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.

I've had many failures in terms of technological... business... and even research failures. I really believe that entrepreneurship is about being able to face failure, manage failure and succeed after failing.

When our jewellery business went into receivership we avoided bankruptcy by selling our houses and possessions.

Drying up of capital has different consequences in different environments.

Over the very long term, history shows that the chances of any business surviving in a manner agreeable to a company's owners are slim at best.

When you lose control of risk at a financial institution, you do a variety of unfortunate credit extensions or purchases - and all of a sudden, you've blown up your business.

Even when America's economy has been by all measures healthy and the unemployment rate low, some businesses suffer or fail and lay off workers. But nearly always, a simultaneous and even greater burst of new jobs has been created to offset the jobs lost - millions of new jobs every year.

We have found in a long life that one competitor is frequently enough to ruin a business.

Over a 10-year period, 99 out of 100 new entrepreneurs will fail. Only one will be left standing as others get pushed out of the market or burn out from working so hard. It's really sad.

One of my first investments was $100,000 in a Web-based calendar startup - and I lost every dollar.

Objectively speaking, Traf-O-Data was a failure as a company. Right as our business started to pick up, states began to provide their own traffic-counting services to local governments for free.

The paradox explored in my book 'The Innovator's Dilemma' is that successful companies can fail by making the 'right' decisions in the wrong situations.

We're conditioned to let businesses fail, regardless of how much we like them. We believe that if the market doesn't want that bookstore to exist, then it shouldn't exist.

I know there's pros and cons to Trump, and people talk crap that he's had a lot of failed businesses, but failing a lot sometimes means you've tried more. And a lot of those people have succeeded more times than they failed.

There's a couple of universal principles in life. One is, don't ever open a restaurant. One out of every two fails.

Starting a business is risky. Half of all new businesses fail to experience a fifth anniversary. And everyone knows that you could lose all the money you've invested in your new company and then some. Those are the obvious risks of trying to be an entrepreneur.

The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.

There is no doubt that the Mindset failure is a major setback for Axovant, but it is not the end of the road.

It’s very important for entrepreneurs to be realistic. So if you believe on that first day while you’re writing the business plan that there’s a 70 percent chance that the whole thing will fail, then that kind of relieves the pressure of self-doubt.

All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition.

American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.

Too many bar owners built a bar for themselves... when they should have built what their market and demographic demands!

If you destroy a firm, you can't pull it out of bankruptcy overnight.

When companies fail, shareholders bear the losses. It's just the way our system is supposed to work.

Years ago, I tried my hand at business and incurred huge loss, and my only way out was to do a movie with Mammootty.