It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes. Anne Baxter ashebirdearly Change image and share on social
The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged... and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion. Alan Greenspan contagiondebtfailure Change image and share on social
Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive. Andy Grove breedcomplacencyfailure Change image and share on social
Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure. Alastair Campbell failurehearpeople Change image and share on social
Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. Orlando Bloom disasterfailurefiasco Change image and share on social
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work. George Bernard Shaw failureobserveten Change image and share on social
Our managers hadn't had that kind of success - the record company hadn't, we hadn't - and the feeling was that the next record had to be even bigger, and if it wasn't it would be some kind of failure. Roland Gift bigcompanyfailure Change image and share on social
I think that big, sort of theatrical relaunches tend to set you up for failure and hype. Tina Brown bigfailurehype Change image and share on social
So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure. Gavin DeGraw actualexpectationfailure Change image and share on social
I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really - it's so boring. Tom Baker borecomparedisappointment share on social
