“There's no success like failure, and failure's no success at all.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), Love Minus Zero/No Limit
Future Proofing You (2021)
“There's no success like failure, and failure's no success at all.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), Love Minus Zero/No Limit
“Failure is but the longer road to triumph.”
Steve Hockensmith (1968) American writer
Source: Dreadfully Ever After
Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American writer and lecturer
“The key to success is failure”
Michael Jordan (1963) American retired professional basketball player and businessman
“Failure is success in progress”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Herbert N. Casson (1869–1951) Canadian journalist and writer
Herbert N. Casson in: National Printer Journalist Vol 51 (1933), Nr. 7-12. p. 28; Cited in Arthur Tremain (1951) Successful Retailing: A Handbook for Store Owners and Managers p. xi
1920s-1940s
“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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. <br class="br">Misattributed <br class="br">Variant: Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. <br class="br">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
“It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb book Fooled by Randomness
Fooled by Randomness (2001)