169 Posts Found

Everything can look like a failure in the middle.

Content: Quotation | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Achievement, Success / Failure

Outsiders think of Silicon Valley as a success, but it is, in truth, a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley’s greatest strength. Every failed product or enterprise is a lesson stored in the collective memory. We don’t stigmatize failure; we admire it.

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Success / Failure

The mistake that most [finance teams] make is assuming that forecasts are about predicting and controlling future outcomes. The purpose of forecasting is to inform decision making (to help shape future outcomes), not to predict the future. In reality, forecasting is necessary only because organizations cannot react instantly to changing events. That’s why fast reaction is more important than (even accurate) prediction – because accuracy … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Management, Success / Failure

On the playing field or in the boardroom, high performance depends as much on how people renew and recover energy as on how they expend it, on how they manage their lives as much as on how they manage their work. When people feel strong and resilient-physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually – they perform better, with more passion, for longer. They win, their families win, … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Success / Failure

The biggest barrier for most people is what I call the failure of success. When we find a pattern and it works, we tend to believe it as the truth. This makes us arrogant about what is right and wrong.

Content: Quotation | Source: Business Finance Magazine | Subjects: Change Management, Success / Failure

Failure’s hard, but success is far more dangerous. If you’re successful at the wrong thing, the mix of praise and money and opportunity can lock you in forever.

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Success / Failure

It’s not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change.

Content: Quotation | Source: Global Dharma Center | Subjects: Change Management, Success / Failure

I believe the real difference between success and failure in a corporation is how well the organization brings out the great energies and talents of its people.

Content: Quotation | Source: Global Dharma Center | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Success / Failure

When you win, you don’t examine it very much, except to congratulate yourself. You can easily, and wrongly, assume it has something to do with your rare qualities as a person. But winning only measures how hard you’ve worked and how…talented you are; it doesn’t particularly define you beyond those characteristics. Losing, on the other hand, really does say something about who you are. Among … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Every Second Counts by Lance Armstrong and Sally Jenkins | Subject: Success / Failure

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness concerning all acts of initiative and creation. There is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans; that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too.

All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Zaadz | Subjects: Commitment, Success / Failure

Whom the gods want to destroy they send 40 years of success.

Content: Quotation | Source: CareerJournal (WSJ) | Subject: Success / Failure

Success – my nomination for the single most important ingredient is energy well directed.

Content: Quotation | Source: Abraham.com | Subject: Success / Failure

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subject: Success / Failure

Technology and business are necessarily out of phase in the cycle of things. When a business is performing well, it’s based on a technology from yesterday. Unfortunately, our future activities in technology are guided by the success of today. There’s a mismatch. The seeds of destruction are planted at the peak of success. History is often the worst enemy in charting the future.

Content: Quotation | Source: Prism (Arthur D. Little) | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Success / Failure

In the final analysis, when we fail it is not from lack of knowledge. It is, instead, from lack of wisdom to apply the things we already know. We don’t fail because we don’t know what to do. We fail because we don’t do what we know.

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Knowledge, Success / Failure

Dismal failure is if you had an idea, you didn’t plan it very well, you executed it really poorly, and after you failed, you felt sorry for yourself. Noble failure is if you had an idea, you planned it well, you executed it well, it failed. And then you said, ‘What can we learn from this?’…

Content: Quotation | Source: eCompany Now | Subject: Success / Failure

According to George Bernard Shaw, a reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that surround him while an unreasonable man adapts the surrounding conditions to himself. A person’s success is thus a product of whether he is Master of Circumstances (MC) or a Victim of Circumstances (VC).

original Shaw quote:
Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: LeaderValues | Subjects: Personality / Behavior, Success / Failure

One of the most misleading lessons imparted by those who have reached their goal is that the ones who win are the ones who persevere. Not always. If you keep trying without learning why you failed, you’ll probably fail again and again. Perseverance must be accompanied by the embrace of failure. Failure is what moves you forward. Listen to failure.

Content: Quotation | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: Success / Failure

Building an impressive resume is a lot easier than building a fulfilling life because life is a lot more complicated. It’s not a ladder at all, but rather a continuum with confusing twists and turns. Being smart helps; being wise, thoughtful, and disciplined is an absolute necessity. We’ve seen stars succeed at life, and we’ve seen stars fail life miserably, despite professional success.Those that succeed … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Bain & Company | Subjects: Personal Development, Success / Failure

People succeed when they run toward something rather than away from something.

Content: Quotation | Source: Bain & Company | Subject: Success / Failure