- Nov 07, 2020
Failure Quotes
What failure costs, and what it sometimes forces.
This page gathers failure quotes on a wide range of subjects: a legal misdemeanor for not filing a form, the long odds behind a legendary TV pilot season, and a blunt wartime statement that failure simply wasn't an option. One entry reflects on a major historical intelligence failure. See Fear for what often sits just behind failure.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pharmaceutical companies are enjoying unprecedented profits and access with this Administration. Yet the Republicans' prescription drug plan for seniors has been a colossal failure, and over 43 million Americans wake up every morning without health insurance.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about government's failure to fix real problems.
- Ethic
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- Nov 07, 2020
My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn't want to let them down.
- Ensure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Risk management systems and controls may discourage or limit certain revenue-generating opportunities. Failure to ensure the independence of these functions from the revenue generators and risk takers has been shown to be dangerous, and this is something for which the board is accountable.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is worth noting that 'too big to fail' is not simply about size. A big institution is 'too big' when there is an expectation that government will do whatever it takes to rescue that institution from failure, thus bestowing an effective risk premium subsidy. Reforms to end 'too big to fail' must address the causes of this expectation.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first failure was to be born a child not wanted by his father or mother, as they parted shortly after I was born.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.
- Climate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you were to plot my success or failure, it goes, it very seldom stays on a high plateau.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020