Failing, and learning from it, is necessary. Unil you've done it, you're missing an important piece of your creative arsenal.
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
I believe there is a right way to fail and a wrong way to fail.
What a shame to be so afraid of failure that you stop living. My wife has a great one-liner about failure: "Never consider yourself a failure-you can always serve as a bad example." She is right. Failure can be a better teacher than success.
I grew up in a house where my father encouraged my brother and me to fail. I specifically remember coming home and saying, 'Dad, Dad, I tried out for this or that and I was horrible,' and he would high-five me and say, 'Way to go.'
The more you fail in private, the less you will fail in public.
Failure is part of discovering the problem you need to be working on. If, as an entrepreneur, you are afraid to fail or to admit the failure of your efforts, then you completely lose any chance at being able to adapt and succeed at finding the problem that needs solving.
Ultimately, fear of failure generates a vicious circle that creates what is most feared. To break this cycle, you need to make peace with failure. It isn't enough to merely tolerate it; you need to appreciate the failure and use it.
It is a common mistake to think of failure as the enemy of success. Failure is a teacher-a harsh one, but the best. Pull your failures to pieces looking for the reason. Put your failure to work for you.
Only failure makes us experts.
People are training for success when they should be training for failure.
If you haven't had a major fail in your career - face-plant level - you aren't trying hard enough.
The learning person looks forward to failure or mistakes. The worst problem in leadership is basically early success.
Plan and execute your first failure so that you no longer have to fear it.
The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures.
I think you need the failures to get the success. You learn more from that.
I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.
In the thirty years of my career I learned everything about success, but I did not learn, really, about failure. In Bar Rescue I got exposed to failure at a very deep level.
I've often felt there might be more to be gained by studying business failures than business successes.
