Failure Causes Quotes

Behind every successful man, there is a woman - And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two.

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

If we look around, then, at the crucial problem areas of our society - the areas of crisis and failure - we find in each and every case a “red thread” marking and uniting them all: the thread of government. In every one of these cases, government either has totally run or heavily influenced the activity.

Companies fail for lack of brains and effort.

Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Most real failures are due to limitations which men set up in their own minds.

The only person who can put you out of business, in the early days, is yourself.

Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.

Whatever may be true of the other modes of warfare, insatyagraha it has been held that the causes for failure are to be sought within.

Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.

Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping their outcomes towards success or failure: long-term planning, and willingness to reconsider core values.

If you don't understand your limitations you won't achieve much in your life.

It is an uncontrolled truth, that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them.

Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month.

It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.

The devotion of thought to an honest achievement makes the achievement possible. Exceptions only confirm this rule, proving that failure is occasioned by a too feeble faith.

Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.