Henry Kravis Quotes

Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Failing passionately is a success in its own right.

Don't be afraid to fail. For the love of God, don't be afraid to fail, because you're going to fail. So try to fail as hard as you can is what I would say, because you're always going to get up and you're going to learn something from it.

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

I've had a lot of success; I've had failures, so I learn from the failure.

Well, the idea is that failure is an inevitable partner on the road to success and, if you're not willing to confront failure, you can never find out how good you are.

When I have tried and failed, I shall have failed.

Failure and rejection are important. Otherwise, you won't value success.

Every great team has had to fail at some point in order to be successful.

The most important lesson to remember is that failure is inevitable, but so is success, so rebound.

Courage allows the successful woman to fail - and to learn powerful lessons from the failure - so that in the end, she didn't fail at all.

Success is 99 percent failure.

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

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

With failure, you just try again.

We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.

Failure is a part of success.

Don't be frightened of failure. It makes you stronger if you learn from your mistakes.

To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.