Failure Prevention Quotes

Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.

Failure is Central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation.

You must know all there is to know in your particular field and keep on the alert for new knowledge. The least difference in knowledge between you and another man may spell his success and your failure.

You have to speak from a place where all is possible. When you speak from a place where there's limits, you've already set yourself up to fail.

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

You have to make your company idiot-proof because you may have an idiot running it some day.

Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail.

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability. Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are. Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.

I believe that you have to understand the economics of a business before you have a strategy, and you have to understand your strategy before you have a structure. If you get these in the wrong order, you will probably fail.

When everything seems to be going well and your dream is almost within your gasp, that is when you must be more alert than ever.

Success is cutting off all of your options for failure.

What is commonly overlooked in using the computer is the fact that the central goal of design is still to obviate failure, and thus it is critical to identify exactly how a structure may fail. The computer cannot do this by itself . . .

The aim of leadership should be to improve the performance of man and machine, to improve quality, to increase output, and simultaneously to bring pride of workmanship to people. Put in a negative way, the aim of leadership is not merely to find and record failures of men, but to remove the causes of failure: to help people to do a better job with less effort.

Dismiss the old horse in good time, lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits. Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure. Thus, the first law I will obey, which precedeth all others is - I will form good habits and become their slave.

You must never get carried away by your success; many people tend to do so after they achieve success in the initial stages of their life. Your feet must be on the ground all the time.

Any design, whether it's for a ship or an airplane, must be done in anticipation of potential failures.

Leaders who fail are the ones who do it by themselves. Leaders who succeed are the ones who allow others to help them.

When we think about what might go wrong, we're more likely to design something that goes right.

Technology has the ability to intervene when humans fail.

I can predict things. I can improve the uptime and the reliability. I can intervene and cause a better outcome before there's a problem.

There is no reason to continue to fail our girls.

Always continue to perform no matter what or where the activity is: local theater, regional theater, local clubs or coffee shops. Continue to play the guitar or your instrument and always continue to progress or otherwise you will fail.

The answer lies in preventing these failures, not in looking for better ways to fix the people who are failing.