Failure Cause Quotes

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the spirit of enterprise, for the result is waste of time and general stagnation.

Business purpose and business mission are so rarely given adequate thought is perhaps the most important cause of business frustration and failure.

Default is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

We've seen, time and again, when people focus on the outcome rather than what needs to be done to achieve a desirable result, then the wheels fall off.

The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.

I spent most of my time playing pool instead of studying.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Don’t follow a model that doesn't work. If the recipe sucks, it doesn't matter how good a cook you are.

Drifting, without aim or purpose, is the first cause of failure.

Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.

Education is literally the difference between success and failure, or even life and death for many children.

If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

Item one: the law of the will. We just talked about this: one should only do that which truly fills our hearts with enthusiasm. If we brush this aside, if we put off the moment to live that which we dream of, we lose the energy necessary for any important transformation in our lives. Someone once put this most succinctly: “I don’t know the secret of success - but the secret of failure is to always try to follow the will of others.

It is the individual's ability to deal with the unexpected that characterizes the difference between success and failure.

any system, in which the final decisions are referred to human beings, and in which the source of all authority are human, is doomed to failure because it deifies human beings by designating others than God as lords over men.