Failure and Setbacks Quotes

"Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo."

"Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you."

"So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America."

"When you experience a failure as a leader, don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks."

"Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think."

"Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them."

"Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being."

"Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure."

"Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line."

"It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth."

"The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen."

"I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at."

"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."

"Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters."

"The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations."

"I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure."

"So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions."

"Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult."

"With everything that is complex, we learn. If you don't learn, then it's an utter and abject failure. If you do learn, and you're able to apply that to the next situation, then you take away a measure of success."

"If you get into a Broadway show and it doesn't work, you're a failure. And if it does work, you may be stuck for who knows how long. It just doesn't sound great to me!"

"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."

"I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right."