Early Failure Quotes

I've seen many actors go awry by making the wrong choices early on.

Children don't drop out of high school when they are 16, they do so in the first grade and wait 10 years to make it official.

I started my career with a loss, getting 'slapped' by life.

So March 2010, we launched Pinterest, and we were at 3,000 accounts. And that wouldn't be so bad if we hadn't started building Pinterest actually in November 2009. And that alone wouldn't have been so bad if I hadn't left my job to start a company in May 2008.

I started wrestling when I was five. I lost my first match and cried in front of my dad, and I never wanted to do that again.

I'm not an overnight success. My early publishing history, through my first five books, was unfortunate in many respects, typified by a couple of short anecdotes.

I started auditioning when I was about 10 and I didn't get my first job until I was 12, and two years at that age is really hard.

African American boys oftentimes fall behind in school early, start feeling discouraged, check out, drop out, end up on the streets and then get into trouble.

The first band I was in, I think was called The Strangers. I got the sack because I was too small!

If you're going to fail, you'd rather fail early than fail late in general.

One of my early money mistakes was getting fired from the first acting job I ever had. I was cast in a play as the lead, and I got fired three nights after the open.

Engineering college students should be encouraged to start entrepreneurial ventures in their second year itself. It is safer to fail while in college.

At 24 I was a wannabe. I was not a 'former TV presenter' as everybody says - I was a young girl living on a wish, appearing on the roulette channel at 1 am and selling cordless kettles on Channel 953.