“Failure is hard, but success is far more dangerous. If you're successful at the wrong thing, the mix of praise and money and opportunity can lock you in forever.”
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“Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.”
Independent (London, April 4, 1991)
“There's no right or wrong, success or failure.”
"Why Government ‘Care’ Will Never, Ever Work" http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2013/10/why-government-care-will-never-ever-work.html Economic Policy Journal, October 26, 2013.
2010s, 2013
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
As quoted in "Václav Havel: Heir to a Spiritual Legacy" by Richard L. Stanger in Christian Century (11 April 1990) http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=767
Context: It's not hard to stand behind one's successes. But to accept responsibility for one's failures... that is devishly hard! But only thence does the road lead... to a radically new insight into the mysterious gravity of my existence as an uncertain enterprise and to its transcendental meaning.
As quoted in The Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell (2003) by Oren Harari, p. 164.
2000s