I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – which is: Try to please everybody. 1.16K
I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success. 2.45K
Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive. 568
The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top. 588
I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success. 644
The cure for capitalism’s failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone. 670
Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person’s car is the only place where he can be alone and think. 676
If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable. 715
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one’s ideas, to take a calculated risk – and to act. 690
Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one’s better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act. 694
I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places – uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me – I find fault. 743
