
“success requires no apologies, failure permits no alibis.” If”
Think and Grow Rich
Variant: Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis.
Liebman, Glenn, Hockey Shorts: 1,001 of the games funniest one liners
“success requires no apologies, failure permits no alibis.” If”
Think and Grow Rich
Variant: Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis.
Mr Brown's self-esteem issue - or, asks Theodore Dalrymple, does Gordon Brown really believe that he can solve the problems of the world.
Source: The Social Affairs Unit (2006 - 2008)
“There's no success like failure, and failure's no success at all.”
Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), Love Minus Zero/No Limit
“The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct.”
“The key to success is failure”
“Failure is success in progress”
“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm”
Attribution debunked in Langworth's Churchill by Himself. The earliest close match located by the Quote Investigator is from the 1953 book How to Say a Few Words by David Guy Powers.
Misattributed
Variant: Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Source: 1953, How to Say a Few Words by David Guy Powers, Quote p. 109, Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York. Referenced by Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/06/28/success