Ana Patricia Botin Quotes

I don't take success seriously. For me, failure is a constant.

I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. It's a process, and failure is part of the process. I would like it if the teacher and the parents would connect more. I think that used to be, but we're losing a little bit of that right now.

I fail all of the time. It means nothing.

I love failure. It's stuff that I'm thinking about all the time in my life, so it would make sense to me anyway to write about it.

I'm very comfortable with failure. I'm very comfortable being the guy who disappoints people.

What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.

I read somewhere that failure is an event, not a person, but I never feel that way. It's who I am.

We're finding that many parents endorse a growth mindset, but they still respond to their children's errors, setbacks or failures as though they're damaging and harmful. If they show anxiety or overconcern, those kids are going toward a more fixed mindset.

Celebrating failure is key. Half of what we do fails, at least.

One important lesson is this: It is okay to try and fail at something, but it isn't okay to not try. Parents need to encourage their kids, and it all starts in the home.

We are all failures – at least, all the best of us are.

There's a lot of glorification of startups and being a founder. People brush the failures under the rug, but that's the worst thing you can do. You kind of have to face it head on.

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.

Don't worry about it. Babe Ruth struck out on occasion, too.

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.

What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible.

There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.

In school, we learn that mistakes translate into bad grades. This unfortunate lesson gets burned into our brains, and we go through life shunning challenges that might end in failure.

My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.

You need the willingness to fail all the time.

Failure is your invention.

There's something to be said for failing. It's not the failure you feel, it's the failure that people project when something disappoints. You're back to ground zero, where there's no expectations, and that's where I like to be.

The most successful families embrace and elevate their family history, particularly their failures, setbacks and other missteps.

Risk and failure is a part of our equation, and if you are seeing too little failure, you are actually probably not taking enough risks.