Failure Analysis Quotes

Our landings … have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops …. The troops, the air, and the navy did all that Bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.

If you aren't making any mistakes, you aren't innovating. If you're making the same mistakes, you aren't learning.

I have not failed 10,000 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work.

Failure is always an option.

We always learn more from the losing than the winning.

I've learnt something from every failure. The products I helped design at the first two companies I worked for were utter failures. But now I know why.

The greatest successes grow out of great failures. In numerous instances the result is better that comes after a series of abortive experiences than it would have been if it had come at once; for all these successive failures induce a skill which is so much additional power working into the final achievement.... The hand that evokes such perfect music from the instrument has often failed in its touch, and bungled among the keys.... Every disappointed effort fences in and indicates the only possible path of success, and makes it easier to find.

Failure is part of success, and nobody should ever view failure as a bad thing as long as you learn from it.

In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.

To lose is not always failure.

Failures are easier to repeat than successes.

Successes teach you nothing. Failures teach you everything. Making mistakes is the most important thing you can do.

We learn from failure, not from success!

We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!

There is a huge difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up. True success comes from failing repeatedly and as quickly as possible, before your cash or your willpower runs out.

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.

Where you succeed will never matter so much as where you fail.

Failures teach you more, there's always something fundamental about them.

There is an old motto that runs, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." This is nonsense. It ought to read, "If at first you don't succeed, quit, quit at once."

Try not to say, 'I'm a failure.' Instead, ask, 'What can I do better? What did I do wrong?' Then re-approach.

As an entrepreneur, you are constantly playing in uncharted territory, and sometimes things don't work out. That doesn't mean you failed; it just means you may be off course.

You learn from the mistakes you make and from the mistakes other people make. The truth is, you don't learn from success; you learn from failure.

If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just the other side of failure.