Stelios Haji-Ioannou Quotes

Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again.

You learn from the mistakes you make and from the mistakes other people make. The truth is, you don't learn from success; you learn from failure.

I have learnt more from my failures than my successes.

People learn from failure or from lack of success.

Recognize that there will be failures, and acknowledge that there will be obstacles. But you will learn from your mistakes and the mistakes of others, for there is very little learning in success.

You learn more from your losses, than from your gains.

Success teaches us nothing; only failure teaches.

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

There's nothing wrong with failing if you learn from it, and I've failed out here plenty.

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

Try not to say, 'I'm a failure.' Instead, ask, 'What can I do better? What did I do wrong?' Then re-approach.

To a certain extent, I enjoy failure. It's part of the game. There's always room to grow; there's room to improve.

There have been failures in the past, and I know there will be in future as well. But I have learnt from them.

There are no failures in life: only learning opportunities.

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

I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.

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.

That’s what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way is winning.

Would rather learn from failures I'm proud of than take pride in success I don't believe in.

We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just the other side of failure.

Failure is so much more interesting because you learn from it. That's what we should be teaching children at school, that being successful the first time, there's nothing in it. There's no interest, you learn nothing actually.

Perhaps the most important thing I could say is to never be thrown by failure and mistakes. Each and everything that happens, even if it was not what you hoped would happen, is a valuable, life-learning tool. And you will only achieve success if you know how to learn from your failures and mistakes. It’s vital.

Losing teaches you something

We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!

One of the most valuable lessons I learned...is that we all have to learn from our mistakes, and we learn from those mistakes a lot more than we learn from the things we succeeded in doing.