“And obviously, with hindsight now, now knowing what went on in the company, it would have been absolutely appropriate back then for us to have the chief executive of the company, most senior person in the United Kingdom, come and answer for the policy they were pursuing. And we ducked that, and frankly that's a failure of Parliament.”
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“Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways it's better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life.”
“Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success.”
“Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.”
“We are equally glad and surprised at Winston's return to office. It shows that he was built for success that he should have declined to withdraw and sulk over a superficial failure.”
“The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.”
“After that he turned to the question of invading England. Hitler said that during the previous year he could not afford to risk a possible failure apart from that, he had not wished to provoke the British, as he hoped to arrange peace talks.”
“In Washington, success is just a training course for failure.”
“Never permit failure to become a habit.”
“Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying.”
“Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.”
“I had to succeed. Failure means I would have to be homeless again.”
“Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.”
“There's tons of creative people in television that have one failure after another, and they just step up higher. I could never get over that. When I had a failure, there was no such thing as just getting over it.”
“Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.”
“Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.”
“It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone.”
“Ken Lay has, does and will continue to accept responsibility for the fall of Enron. He was the man at the controls. But failure is not a crime.”
“I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.”
“Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.”
“Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.”
“It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure.”
“Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.”
“Failure is not fatal victory is not success.”