23 Quotes on Failure From Super Successful Leaders Like Barbara Corcoran, Mark Cuban and MoreFailure is a byproduct of entrepreneurship -- use it to your advantage.
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Entrepreneurship is no walk in the park. And one of the unavoidable side effects that goes along with being an entrepreneur isfailure. Even some of the most successful people in the world have experienced failure -- in fact, it's sometimes what helps steer people in the right direction towardssuccess.
While some let failure knock them down, others use it to make them stronger. Without failure, some of today's biggest, most successful companies and people wouldn't be where they are.
Take a look at billionaire entrepreneur andShark TankstarMark Cuban. It took him years to figure out how to make money and what to do with his life. After being fired from multiple jobs, Cuban used his failures as lessons that ultimately drove him to launching his own business venture.
"Face failure head on, don't be afraid of it, and people will support and welcome you even more." -- Richard Branson
J.K. Rowling
Sheryl Sandberg
Paul Allen
"In my experience, each failure contains the seeds of your next success -- if you are willing to learn from it." -- Paul Allen
Gary Vaynerchuk
"Once you get to a place where your failures are just yours, they get a lot less scary." -- Gary Vaynerchuk
Albert Einstein
Tony Robbins
"There is no such thing as failure, only results." -- Tony Robbins
Oprah Winfrey
"You don't have to hold yourself hostage to who you used to be." -- Oprah Winfrey
Andy Warhol
"Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, so what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what." -- Andy Warhol
Tim Ferriss
"What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do." -- Tim Ferriss
Lady Gaga
"Every time they told me no, I just got stronger." -- Lady Gaga
Sergey Brin
“我觉得有一个年轻人存在性焦虑people. I didn't have that. They see enormous mountains, where I only saw onle little hill to climb." -- Sergey Brin
Ellen Degeneres
"It's failure that gives you the proper perspective on success." -- Ellen Degeneres
Mark Zuckerberg
"In a world that's changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks." -- Mark Zuckerberg
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