“Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.”
Lessons : An Autobiography (1986)
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
“Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.”
Lessons : An Autobiography (1986)
“Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.”
Independent (London, April 4, 1991)
“A success that has outlived its usefulness may, in the end, be more damaging than failure.”
Source: 1960s - 1980s, MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973), Part 1, p. 159
“Success or failure in business is caused more by mental attitude even than by mental capacity.”
Source: Increasing Human Efficiency in Business, 1911, p. 134
“I do feel one learns more from one's failures than from one's successes”
Sunday Times interview (1983)
“… recognizing that there is more heartbreak in continuous disappointment than a void…”
Source: Heart of the Matter
“Fear kills more dreams than failure ever will.”
Future Proofing You (2021)