Failure Reasons Quotes

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

We have 40 million reasons for our failure but not one excuse.

Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude.

Generally the reason they fail in the job is, you made some mistake in the hiring process in that you didn't match... them to the needs of your company accurately enough. That's the #1 reason this fails. And that's generally a good place to start: Here's where we are and here's what I didn't recognize about us and about you when I made the decision, and now it is what it is.

I think projects often fail because people do not have a clear understanding at the start what they are trying to deliver.

In the real world, very smart people fail and mediocre people rise. Part of what makes people fail or succeed are skills that have nothing to do with IQ. Also, the idea that intelligence can be gauged by an IQ test is erroneous.

Start-ups make so many mistakes that the challenge to identify the root cause of a failure is tough. But believing in your own plan is probably the worst.

My first book, 'To Engineer Is Human,' was prompted by nonengineer friends asking me why so many technological accidents and failures were occurring. If engineers knew what they were doing, why did bridges and buildings fall down? It was a question that I had often asked myself, and I had no easy answer.

The reason so many individuals fail to achieve their goals in life is that they never really set them in the first place

(The) chain of command has failed over the years, obviously, for a lot of reasons.

Marriages are said to be made in Heaven, which may be why they don't work here on Earth.

Software projects fail for one of two general reasons: the project team lacks the knowledge to conduct a software project successfully, or the project team lacks the resolve to conduct a project effectively.

I've really thought a lot about why other companies fail or succeed. I had to be a student of failure and find out why things went off the rails. I did that at a fairly deep level, and it's still something I do.

Being gifted intellectually is only a small part of the equation of success. Concentrate on the factors you have control over: persistence, self-discipline, confidence. Far more failures are due to lack of will than lack of ability.

In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits.

The only difference between the failure of a great idea and the success of a medocre idea was the way in which the idea was communicated.

My problems were not what ended Creed.

Most real failures are due to limitations which men set up in their own minds.

My job is to analyze conversations and discover why communications fail.

Most small businesses failed because the owner was under skilled, not under capitalized.

We fail, not because of big problems, but because of small purposes.

In the past, a lot of films based on video games think that the audience wants to experience what it's like to play the game, and that's absolutely not the case.

The thing that kills startups at some level, is the founders giving up.

What's overwhelmingly clear is 'Havana' didn't work for people, but why it didn't work I don't feel I can put my finger on in a way I can learn from.

Watching an entrepreneur fail is sad, but watching him fail from lack of nerve is tragic.