Success After Failure Quotes

You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.

I think that everyone who is going to really move up has got to go through some trauma...I'm much more respected in my new job, than I was as the head of the Warner Group, because I survived being thrown out the window, going splat on the concrete, and walking.

The very first company I started failed with a great bang. The second one failed a little bit less, but still failed. The third one, you know, proper failed, but it was kind of okay. I recovered quickly. Number four almost didn't fail. It still didn't really feel great, but it did okay. Number five was PayPal.

Learn from your mistakes, make adjustments, and go out and compete again. That's the mark of championship spirit.

Even now one rarely hears of people achieving great things unless they first stumble in some respect.

Many of my biggest business endeavors were failures before they became a success. Some failed for as long as six years before they hit. Everyone around me thought I was crazy. You just have to stay at it.

Sometimes failure is merely chasing you off the wrong road and onto the right one.

Your greatest failure will precede your greatest success.

He who has failed three times sets up as an instructor.

All great success is preceded by failure.

I'm the type of guy who fails and fails and fails, and then, as if failure has become sick of him, succeeds.

All the best things that happened to me happened after I was rejected. I knew the power of getting past no.

Slowly, after dozens of rejection slips and failures and false starts and postponed dreams - what Langston Hughes called dreams deferred - I stepped onto the hallowed ground of being a published novelist, and then 15 years later, I even started to make real money.

I used to keep a folder with all my rejection letters in it - a few years into having a job, I burned it.