"Just because you've failed once, it doesn't mean you're going to fail at everything."
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"It is an axiom nowadays that no bank fails for lack of capital; unprofitable lending is always the underlying cause."
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"A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks."
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"There is nothing so weak, for working purposes, as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success."
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"For true happiness, it is not enough to be successful oneself . . . one's friends must fail."
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"Movement will fail sooner than usefulness."
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"You must get your living by loving. But as it is said of the merchants that ninety-seven in a hundred fail, so the life of men generally, tried by this standard, is a failure, and bankruptcy may be surely prophesied."
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"Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour."
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"I wouldn't be where I am now if I didn't fail ... a lot. The good, the bad, it's all part of the success equation."
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"If you have managers reporting to managers in a startup, you will fail."
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"If you have managers reporting to managers in a startup, you will fail. Once you get beyond startup, if you have managers reporting to managers, you will create politics."
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"Companies fail for lack of brains and effort."
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"When a show fails to destroy the competition-and it can fail while attracting 20 million viewers-it is itself destroyed."
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"Hate will keep you alive where love fails"
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"To fail at all is to fail utterly."
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"I have to do things for myself, and if those standards are set high, then it's up to me to pass or fail."
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"Whoever fails to turn aside the ills of life by prudent forethought, must submit to fulfill the course of destiny."
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"When we stand the truth on its head we generally fail to notice that our head is not standing where it should be standing either."
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"All parties attempt to represent important things that have developed outside themselves as unimportant, and where they fail in this they assail those things all the more bitterly the more admirable they are."
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"In Hollywood you kind of fail upwards"
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