
“I'm a big believer that success is never final and failure is never fatal.”
San Francisco Examiner, April 5, 2008 http://www.examiner.com/a-1322202~After_years_in_public_service__Speier_ready_for_seat_in_D_C_.html
"7th Avenue Static", Psychopharmacology(July 10, 2001).
Lyrics, Firewater
“I'm a big believer that success is never final and failure is never fatal.”
San Francisco Examiner, April 5, 2008 http://www.examiner.com/a-1322202~After_years_in_public_service__Speier_ready_for_seat_in_D_C_.html
“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
“Black rage is largely a response not to white racism but to black failure.”
Source: Books, The End of Racism (1995), Ch. 8
“The key to success is failure”
“Failure is success in progress”
Interview with the Associated Press (18 January 2001)
2000s, 2001
“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