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Most businesses fail because they want the right things but measure the wrong things, and they get the wrong results.

But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.

When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.

I'm cool with failing so long as I know that there are people around me that love me unconditionally.

The amazing thing is that the more money it takes for a movie to get made, the more you feel like everybody wants you to fail.

If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else.

There is no getting around it; Congress is failing the American people.

I believe anybody who is not afraid to fail is a winner.

I want to be perfect. I don't want to fail. And you always fail.

If I succeed in business but fail as a father, then I've failed.

You should treat your marriage like a business that you wouldn't want to let fail.

When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.

My mantra is: Realize you're going to fail all the time, and accept it. That doesn't mean I'm not frightened of it.

Most phenomenal startup teams create businesses that ultimately fail. Why? They built something that nobody wanted.

Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.

In a way, a lot of my humor comes from presenting things that are dramatic or shocking and then people not having socially appropriate responses, having people denying the drama by failing to react to it, and that's a really classic form of humor.

I love faltering. I love, in a sense, coming up short. Because you learn nothing from success. You learn so much from failing.

I think that's the whole point of Bridget Jones. It's all about that it's okay to fail.

If the government fails to listen to your demands, then you will decide what is best for you.

Every single time I start to do a picture, without fail, I feel as if I don't know what I'm doing.

There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.

If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.

I'm not saying I look cool, but every single time I go onstage, it is a fail if I don't feel like I'm going to pass out at least twice.

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

When you go to meetings or auditions and you fail to prepare, prepare to fail. It is simple but true.

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Recessions are the best time to start a company. Companies fail. Others hold back capital. If you are willing to do the preparation and work, it is the best time to invest in yourself and start a business.

Folks, this government isn't too big to fail, it's too big to succeed.

If you're going to fail, you might as well fail at the big ones.

The entire time I was modeling, I was trying and failing at businesses. In fact, we would have started our business much sooner had I been more successful.

Obama was elected on a slogan of hope and change because both were in short supply: the military exhausted by two wars, the banks failing their public trust, the U.S. Congress a comedy of dysfunction, and a federal government that seemed designed to idle on the sidelines.

The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.

Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.

Terror will crash down on us if we fail to understand that a pluralistic society requires the personal and daily commitment of every citizen.

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

We don't want a president who fails at domestic and foreign policy.

I've witnessed thousands of superior athletes try to becomes hitters and fail at it.

I remember failing my Princeton interview. My mom wanted me to apply because ever since I was a kid she had this dream that I would apply to Princeton, but it was just not happening.

If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.

If somebody has an extreme amount of wealth and is not using it for some good purpose, only for their own enjoyment or satisfaction, then clearly there's a moral failing in the world in which we live.

You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.

If you bet on individuals instead of the people, you are going to fail.

There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn't make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.

By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history, the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future.

If you try to follow everyone else's mold, you'll probably fail at some point because God created us uniquely for a reason.

The great thing about theater is that you have so much time to prepare, and to fail, before presenting it to the public. In film, the high-wire act seems to be that much farther up, and the net seems to be less there.

When I first decided to open a restaurant, I was turned down by several banks. It was the late 80's and many restaurants were failing. I refused to give up because I knew I had a good concept.

Generally speaking, the more money that's involved in anything, the more people are expecting and hoping that it's not going to fail.

The Savior warns that if we start along the path and go far enough and then fail and deny Him, it would have been better if we had never begun.

I think that the Occupy movement is, in one sense, the public saying that they should be the ones to decide who's too big to fail.

Liberals get credit for good intentions, and that's about it, because everything they do fails.

We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.

I'm really concerned that too-big-to-fail has become too-big-for-trial.

When you put a great amount of energy and hope in a big project, you can be destroyed if you don't do it. But myself, I say: "To fail is only to see the way to fail."

I fail frequently - I just try to keep it quiet.

Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

What I've become good at is bringing things that aren't necessarily mainstream to the mainstream. What I did see on Twitter was a potential for mass publication; it's a mainstream consumer broadcasting device. It transforms customers and companies. You have to be transparent or you fail.

When you're filming, you work 19-hour days and you know more about what's going on with your crew and co-workers than you do with your husband. You're away, you miss things. It's taxing. Relationships fail because of it.

What today's business reality makes clear is that brands cannot survive in a society that is failing economically, socially, ethically, and morally.

Millions of people are asking for accountability, for responsibility, for truth from their elected officials, truth about how Obamacare is failing the men and women of America.

Many financial advisors recommend that you diversify for your own protection. What they fail to tell you is that it is also for their protection. Since most financial advisors cannot tell you exactly which stock or mutual fund is a great investment, they tell you to buy a bunch of them.

Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it.

I don't want to fail the audience. I don't want to let them down.

The poem, to me (until I go broke) is an attempt, an experiment, a failing experiment, toward assertion with broken means but an assertion, always, of a new and total culture, the lifting of an environment to expression. Thus it is social, the poem is a social instrument.

You gotta learn to love when you're failing.... The embracing of that, the discomfort of failing in front of an audience, leads you to penetrate through the fear that blinds you. Fear is the mind killer.

If you have managers reporting to managers in a startup, you will fail.

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.

Companies fail for lack of brains and effort.

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.

While Mark Dayton has made it abundantly clear how out of touch he is, it also appears the current crop of DFL Senate candidates are out of the mainstream by failing to come forward to support Judge Roberts' nomination,

What a great story to inspire our children of today. Not only can you be a resident of Union City and go on to win a Nobel Prize, but you shouldn't be defeated by the failing of a subject.

We're failing when it comes to controlling spending, ... Fox News Sunday.

We're just making fundamental errors we shouldn't be making. Failing to block off on a free throw, given up a second shot ... we're just shooting ourselves in the foot.

Ulster (Northern Ireland) and the Balkans have already shown how difficult it is to split cities, and with Iraq's centralized and failing infrastructure, and impoverished economy, violence and economics cannot be separated.

How lazily "xperts" dismiss what they fail to understand!

Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests.

A country that fails to value its teachers, fails to value its future.

Those as don't eat, without exception, fail to survive.

Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular.

If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.

Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things.

Do what is beyond your strength even should you fail sometimes.

Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so.

For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.

Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Failure's relative. I've always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something's not right about that. It's how you treat failure, too. There's something to learn from it. I've had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures: What kind of failure was it? A failure because it's misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?

It has always been quite apparent to me that no important story can fail to tell us something of value to us.

A business model that relies on trickery is doomed to fail.

Regimes may fall and fail, but I do not.

The man who fails to give fair service during the hours for which he is paid is dishonest. The man who is not willing to give more than this is foolish.

Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.

In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.

I've always believed in my abilities. Nobody ever gave me anything in life. I had to work for everything I got. It may have gotten really rocky for a while, but I persevered, because I'm not afraid of failing.