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Misapplying experience is perhaps the surest route to failure.

Content: Quotation | Author: Tom Ruby | Source: The Wilson Quarterly | Subjects: Experience, Success / Failure

I’d rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.

Content: Quotation | Author: John Wooden | Subjects: Experience, Success / Failure

Success is constantly a journey. You’re always trying to better understand the sources of your success and the things that could imperil you. If you actually think that you have all those answers, you stop asking the questions. Well, what happens if, in fact, you were wrong about part of it? And then things start to go awry because you’ve lost that inquisitiveness, the will … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Jim Collins | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Leadership, Success / Failure

You have a great enterprise that has a very strong set of values that’s married to a very insightful strategy. That is then translated into a set of disciplined decisions, mechanisms, cultural practices and a variety of other things that really bring the strategy to life so that you can make good on it. And when you look at that chain, the great danger comes … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Jim Collins | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Management, Strategy, Success / Failure

If you’ve been successful long enough, complacency doesn’t disappear easily. And it’s fine to celebrate success: You have a sales appreciation meeting and give out a bunch of awards to your employees. They deserve it. They helped you to grow 30 percent this year. But that’s history. So you ask them, “What do you have on your calendar for tomorrow that’s going to help us … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: John P. Kotter | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subject: Success / Failure

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

Content: Quotation | Author: John Wooden | Subjects: Attitude, Success / Failure

Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves, their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.

Content: Quotation | Author: Peter F. Drucker | Subject: Success / Failure

The noted sociologist, Dr. Edward Banfield of Harvard University, performed a long-term study to determine how and why some people become financially independent when others don’t. He discovered that the greatest determinant of a person’s success was not demographics, education or other variables; rather it was their ability to apply long term perspective to daily decisions.

Content: Quotation | Authors: Brian Kinahan, Edward Banfield | Source: Summit Performance Systems | Subject: Success / Failure

Talent only matures when harnessed within a personality that is capable of self-improvement. And talent, ironically, has a nasty knack of protecting the talented from the urge to self-improve.

Content: Quotation | Author: Ed Smith | Source: Ode | Subjects: Ability, Achievement, Success / Failure

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Content: Quotation | Author: Henry Ford | Source: Ode | Subject: Success / Failure

The opposite of success is not failure, but mediocrity. To achieve big successes, you need to take big risks; if you take little or no risks, mediocrity is guaranteed.

Content: Quotation | Authors: Marisa Taylor, Michael E. Raynor | Source: Ode | Subjects: Achievement, Success / Failure

We need to think about failure in a more fine-grained way. Failures in organizations fall into three quite different types: unsuccessful trials, system breakdowns, and process deviations. All must be analyzed and dealt with, but the first category, which offers the richest potential for creative learning, involves overcoming deeply ingrained norms that stigmatize failure and thereby inhibit experimentation.

Content: Quotation | Author: Amy Edmondson | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior, Success / Failure

If companies genuinely want to move from knowing to doing, they need to build a forgiveness framework – a tolerance for error and failure — into their culture. A company that wants you to come up with a smart idea, implement that idea quickly, and learn in the process has to be willing to cut you some slack.

Content: Quotation | Author: Jeffrey Pfeffer | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Innovation, Management, Organizational Behavior, Success / Failure

Be stubborn in the face of failure. Instead: Be determined in the face of disbelief.

The doubters are inevitable and the odds are stacked against entrepreneurs and startups, thus it is crucial to believe in yourself, your company and your solution. Yet that determination can become our biggest weakness when it manifests itself as stubbornness or inflexibility; we can learn more through failures than successes.

The difference … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Taylor Davidson | Source: Unstructured Ventures | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Success / Failure

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Theodore Roosevelt | Sources: History as Literature, Hold this Thought | Subjects: Achievement, Action, Leadership, Success / Failure

Failure is frightening and understandably avoided by most people. Success drives our common approach to effectiveness, so we quickly learn to steer away from failure’s pressures. But failure is a more constant companion when we venture into the alternative world.Unfortunately, each comforting step we take to conserve success distances us from the chance to innovate, to be original, and to step outside the status … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Hilary Austen | Source: Rotman Magazine | Subject: Success / Failure

Excellent performers judge themselves differently than most people do. They’re more specific, just as they are when they set goals and strategies. Average performers are content to tell themselves that they did great or poorly or okay.

By contrast, the best performers judge themselves against a standard that’s relevant for what they’re trying to achieve. Sometimes they compare their performance with their own personal best; sometimes … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Geoffrey Colvin | Source: FORTUNE | Subjects: Achievement, Personal Development, Success / Failure

There are no “success secrets.” However, there are success systems, success habits, and success principles applied through discipline and persistence.

Content: Quotation | Author: Jim Clemmer | Source: The CLEMMER Group | Subject: Success / Failure

The best corporate leaders never point out the window to blame external conditions; they look in the mirror and say, “We are responsible for our results!” Those who take personal credit for good times but blame external events in bad times simply do not deserve to lead our institutions. No law of nature dictates that a great institution must inevitably fall, at least not within … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Jim Collins | Source: FORTUNE | Subjects: Accountability, Leadership, Management, Success / Failure

Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is fear of failure.

Content: Quotation | Author: Jack Lemmon | Source: Bruce Lynn Blog | Subject: Success / Failure