Ben Huh Quotes

What is the distinction between "misfortune" and "calamity"? If Mr. Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune; but if someone pulled him out, it would be a calamity.

Either you will make your life work, or your life will not work.

You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.

I'm disappointed that I really haven't been able to race in a way that is reflective of the amount of work that I have done and how I have trained. But I don't regret giving this a go.

If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure.

I always like stories where the egg ends up on my face.

If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure.

Every now and then you dig a dry hole.

Success of negotiations cannot be guaranteed. If there is no attempt, then failure is guaranteed.

I’ll do my best but I can’t promise anything. t

You're not going to do that. If you gave your best to what you were given, at the time, it's going to play out how it's going to play out.

Disaster, to me, means in some big or small way, things going wrong. And that's obviously a matter of perception, right? Let's say your puppy chewed up all the shoes in your house. She probably had a fine time doing that. In her mind, a red letter day, the highlight of her puppy life.

You can neither win nor lose if you don't run the race

Trying and acheiving are two different things.

You can't control the success or failure of a thing you work on. You can only control the thing you work on.

Failure to me became not trying versus not succeeding

The only failure is not trying.

It is the "try" that is more often counted for righteousness and not the success or failure.

The only thing in your control is effort. That's all, and that's everything.

It's hard to answer a question you haven't been asked. It's hard to show you tried unless you end up succeeding.

When a man does all he can, though it succeeds not well, blame not him that did it.

When you give total effort - everything you have - the score can never make you a loser. And when you do less, it can't somehow magically turn you into a winner.

Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good.

THERE'S NO OTHER WAY to find out whether or not you'll be successful other than just doing it

I don't think you're going to get nominated every time you jump out of the box.