Edward A. Murphy Jr. Quotes

If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.

Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.

The way you can be careful of the catastrophe that success can bring is by paying attention to something else that comes along with success - responsibility.

I don't want anything bad to happen to me.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

If we didn't do the tour, it would have been disastrous.

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

Nothing fails like failure.

You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.

One mistake followed the other, and the price was in human lives.

It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.

Any pick you make, or any player you sign, something can go wrong.

Local government is a gamble that can have disastrous consequences when it fails.

Anyone who has actually had to take responsibility for consequences by running any kind of enterprise whether economic or academic, or even just managing a sports team is likely at some point to be chastened by either the setbacks brought on by his own mistakes or by seeing his successes followed by negative consequences that he never anticipated.

Just don't let the human factor fail to be a factor at all

If you take risks, you may fail; but if you don't take risks, you will surely fail

The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck.

If you take action, you will be judged. There's no way around it. The alternative, of course, is much safer. To be ignored. Up to you.

Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails.

By definition, risk-takers often fail. So do morons. In practice it's difficult to sort them out.

Dare to fail. If you never fail, you're never taken risks and that's no way to take on this life.

If somebody knew every time they did something it was going to be a hit there would never be any failures. Sadly, that's not how it works. You take nothing for granted.

If you can talk the talk but cant walk the walk youll look like a fool. That's the risk but with great risk comes great reward.

Failure is not about insecurity. It's about lack of execution.

I make plenty of mistakes and I'll make plenty more mistakes, too. That's part of the game. You've just got to make sure that the right things overcome the wrong ones.