
“Failure is inevitable. Success is elusive.”
OM [citation needed]
As quoted in Believing in Ourselves (1992) by Armand Eisen, p. 15
“Failure is inevitable. Success is elusive.”
OM [citation needed]
Source: The Reader's digest vol. 140, no. 837-842 (1992), p. 159
“The line between failure and success is so fine… that we are often on the line and do not know it.”
“I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”
Originally from Herbert Bayard Swope (1882-1958); often attributed to Cosby, he actually cites this as a sound advice he once read elsewhere, in "Dr. Bill Cosby" in Ebony, Vol. 32, No. 8 (June 1977), p. 136
Misattributed
“Success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection…”
“Great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure.”
Evan Elite : Lesson #4: Break Through That Wall http://www.evancarmichael.com/Famous-Entrepreneurs/649/Lesson-4-Break-Through-That-Wall.html.
As quoted in Business Class : Etiquette Essentials for Success at Work (2005) by Jacqueline Whitmore, p. 25
“A network nurtures small failures in order that large failures don't happen as often.”
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)