John Dewey Quotes

I think failing is the best way to keep you grounded, curious, and humble. Success is dangerous because often you don't understand why you succeeded. You almost always know why you've failed. You have a lot of time to think about it.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.

If you already think you are correct and there's nothing else you can learn in life, then I think you are in trouble.

We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

A winner must first know what losing's like.

I remember ones I lost [shot]. I remember the ones I won, but I remember the ones I lost, something that I will never forget. Did it ruin me or hurt my career? It taught me about life, how to take the bad with the good.

I'm very proud of my flops, as much as of my successes.

The most successful people in American life are those that have had horrific failures and have come back, done it again and again until they got it right, whether it's Steve Jobs or Bill Gates or Warren Buffet.

Successful people fail often, and, worth noting, learn more from that failure than everyone else.

You learn as much from failure as from success, Dad always says. Though no one admires you for it.

Failure may be just a step toward your eventual goal.

You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.

It doesn't matter how many times you have failed.... What matters is the successful attempt.

Success is a pile of failure that you are standing on.

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

In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.

A failure isn't a failure if it prepares you for success tomorrow.

What people call success is only preparation for the next failure.

The key to success is failure… Success is made of 99 percent failure.

From success, you learn absolutely nothing. From failure and setbacks conclusions can be drawn. That goes for your private life as well as your career.

Her failure was a useful preliminary to success.

Losing is essential to anyone's success. The more you lose, the more you want to win.

Each failure to sell will increase your chances for success at your next attempt.

All great success is preceded by failure.