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—John D. Rockefeller, industrialist, cofounder of Standard Oil Co., and philanthropist The way I
see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
—Dolly Parton, country singer
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
—Theodore Roosevelt, US president
Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to
resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I’ve met people
who don’t want to try for fear of failing.
—J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter author I like to fail. I have had so many failures and each time I have
failed, I have figured out how to grow.
—Michael Rubin, e-commerce entrepreneur
When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were
failures. I didn’t want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.
—George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist
