"You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism."
5
"I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody."
6
"The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure."
6
"You don't go into anything contemplating failure, because if you did, you wouldn't make it."
6
"As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?"
5
"If you can't admit a failure, you're not an entrepreneur. You are not a good business person. There's nothing brilliant about what you are doing."
5
"I was very afraid of failure because if you fail at something you love, then you ruin what you love."
4
"It's very important to learn quick lessons from your failures, very important to recognize symptoms of failure pretty early, and it is very, very important to not to be attached too much to the idea - you have to know when to give up an idea."
6
"There's something to be said for failing. It's not the failure you feel, it's the failure that people project when something disappoints. You're back to ground zero, where there's no expectations, and that's where I like to be."
6
"I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd."
5
"If you're so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances."
6
"If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success."
5
"With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again."
5
"I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at."
6
"It does not matter what you know about anything if you cannot communicate to your people. In that event, you are not even a failure. You're just not there."
6
"In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach."
6
"If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style."
5
"You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you."
5
"For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour."
4
"Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day."
5
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