Failure Consequences Quotes

If you serve a child a rotten hamburger in America, federal, state, and local agencies will investigate you, summon you, close you down, whatever. But if you provide a child with a rotten education, nothing happens, except that you're liable to be given more money to do it with. Well, we've discovered that money alone isn't the answer.

If economists were doctors, they would today be mired in malpractice suits.

Flopping shouldn't get you nowhere.

Transforming education is not easy but the price of failure is more than we can afford, while the benefits of success are more than we can imagine.

We give kudos to people who have succeeded. We don't care in what they succeeded as long as they succeeded. The worst thing that can happen to anybody in this cultural environment is to fail.

Take care to make things turn out well. Some people scruple more over pointing things in the right direction than over successfully reaching their goals. The disgrace of failure outweighs the diligence they showed. A winner is never asked for explanations.

Euthanasia is legal in Hollywood. They just kill the film if it doesn't succeed immediately.

When you think that it's too hard, remember that in the long run, doing the things that will make you successful is a lot easier than being unsuccessful

I had a head start in acting. Because of my parents, I had a SAG card, an agent and a recognizable name. But I knew if I screwed up, people would never forget. I'd be dead.

Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.

Innovation is a big risk. It can also be a big reward - but a big punishment if you fail.

Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies?

I've got to formulate a plot or end up in jail or shot, success is my only option, failure's not.

We all know how management works. If you don't win things, as has happened before, people start to call for your head.

When a private entity does not produce the desired results, it is (certain body parts excepted) done away with. But a public entity gets bigger.

We must make democracy the popular creed...If we should fail to do this, our people are bound to suffer... That is what my father said. It is the reason why I am participating in this struggle.

There are only two kinds of managers. Winning managers and ex-managers.

Education in Bavaria is tough. You fail sports, you have to repeat the year.

The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.

The problems with success, frankly, are infinitely preferable to the problems of failure.

It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards.

The important thing about security systems isn’t how they work, it’s how they fail.

If we get to the design sensitivity and make no detections, then there are a lot of things that will have to go back to the drawing board theoretically. If we fail, we're not expecting that the NSF will help bail it out somehow.

In 'Condition Zero,' failure has greater consequences and success offers greater rewards.

The cloud computing model may be a wonderful system when it works, but it's a nightmare when it fails. And the more people who come to depend upon it, the bigger the nightmare.