"Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails."

Failure, Laziness

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"The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council."

Boutros Boutros Ghali, Egyptian Public Servant

Failure, Nations, Security, United

"We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world."

Charles Kettering, American Inventor

Failure, Cause, Disgrace, Man

"Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again."

Henry Ford, American Businessman

Failure, Opportunity, Learning, Success

"Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty."

Lillian Hellman, American Dramatist

Failure, Theater, Writing

"The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory?"

Aldrich Ames, American Criminal

Failure, Victory, Help, Information

"Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community."

H. G. Wells, English Author

Failure, Community, Crime, End

"Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?"

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

Failure, Man, Old

"Failure is not the opposite of success, inaction is."

Rob Liano, American Author

Failure, Action, Success, Inaction

"To me he seemed one of those persons destined to failure of whom you wonder what purpose it can ever serve that they should have ben born."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

Failure, Destiny, Purpose, Life

"Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes."

Pearl S. Buck, American Novelist

Failure, Paradox, Success, Learning

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"There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability."

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"It's easy to make good decisions when there are no bad options."

Decision-Making

"Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers."

Answers

"The search for someone to blame is always successful."

Success

"No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time."

Time

"There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working."

Life

"People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income."

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"The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council."

"We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world."

"Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again."

"Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty."

"The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory?"

"Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community."

"Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?"

"Failure is not the opposite of success, inaction is."

"To me he seemed one of those persons destined to failure of whom you wonder what purpose it can ever serve that they should have ben born."

"Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes."

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"Not admitting a mistake is a bigger mistake."

"People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to."

"Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too."

"There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability."

"It's easy to make good decisions when there are no bad options."

"Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers."

"The search for someone to blame is always successful."

"No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time."

"There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working."

"People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income."