Consequences of Failure Quotes

Ferrari is very political, at Ferrari everything is difficult. So if you win you have a lot of pressure and if you don't win you have even more.

The greatest dangers have their allurements, if the want of success is likely to be attended with a degree of glory. Middling dangers are horrid, when the loss of reputation is the inevitable consequence of ill success.

A statesman is judged by results. If his policy fails he goes. It may be unfair, but there is a kind of rough justice about it.

It is in some ways more troublesome to track and swat an evasive wasp than to shoot, at close range, a wild elephant. But the elephant is more troublesome if you miss.

You can learn a lesson the first time, when it's presented in a package that is joyous - or at least palatable. But if you don't learn the lesson the first time, then there will be a second time and a third time. And each time it will just get harder and harder.

Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose.

If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize.

The general public is easy. You don't have to answer to anyone; and as long as you follow the rules of your profession, you needn't worry about the consequences. But the problem with the powerful and rich is that when they are sick, they really want their doctors to cure them.

In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.

What will happen to me if that which this desire seeks is achieved, and what if it is not?

Such professions as the soldier and the lawyer ... give ample opportunity for crimes but not much for mere illusions. ... If you have lost a battle you cannot believe you have won it; if your client is hanged you cannot pretend that you have gotten him off.

History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.