Failure Tolerance Quotes

In the game of life, it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

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.

You have to be willing to fail, because you're not going to make every shot.

There is no success without failure and losses.

Yankee Stadium is a natural venue for another lesson: You won't succeed all the time. Even Ruth, Gehrig, and DiMaggio failed most of time when they stepped to the plate. Finding the right path in life, more often than not, involves some missteps.

The antidote for fear of failure is not success but small doses of failure.

Failure is part of the process of success.

It's OK to fail once in awhile.

You cannot succeed if at some point you haven't failed.

My willingness to fail gives me the ability to succeed.

Perfectionist is sometimes the wrong word... It means like you're never satisfied, or you're upset by every single failure - any type of failure. And so for me, I don't look at failure as necessarily a bad thing as long as I'm able to learn from it and take something from it, so that next time I'm in that situation I know how to succeed.

You have to have a cultural ethic that allows for making mistakes. It cannot be that just because you make mistakes, you're out. You have to make mistakes in order to innovate.

You need the willingness to fail all the time.

Your willingness to fail is what will let you succeed.

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.

It's not about the failure, it's about learning from the failures. Failure itself cannot be celebrated.

To improve, we must watch ourselves fail, and learn from our mistakes.

You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

I've probably failed more often than anybody else in Silicon Valley. Those don't matter. I don't remember the failures. You remember the big successes.

The more failure you can accept, the greater your chance of success.

Failures are expected by losers, ignored by winners.

I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.

Risk and failure is a part of our equation, and if you are seeing too little failure, you are actually probably not taking enough risks.

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.

I really believe that entrepreneurship is about being able to face failure, manage failure and succeed after failing.