
“99% of failures come from people who make excuses.”
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
“99% of failures come from people who make excuses.”
“Most startup failures result from entrepreneurs who are better at making excuses than products.”
Source: Disrupt You! (2015), p.128
“We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.”
“Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 7
“I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.”
Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story
The God-Seeker (1949), Ch. 41
Source: Inner Management: In the Presence of the Master
“A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.”
Four in America (1933)