“99% of failures come from people who make excuses.”

“Most startup failures result from entrepreneurs who are better at making excuses than products.”

Jay Samit (1961) American businessman

“success is 99% failure”

Henry Ford (1863–1947) American industrialist

“Success is 99 percent failure.”

Soichiro Honda (1906–1991) Japanese businessman

“There are no limitations to excuses. It may give a moment relieve. But, anything outside that is the long-lasting sufferings of what was neglected to underscore before the excuses. So, we make excuses to justify our failures. Because, failure and success are the future life of a doer.”

Idegu Ojonugwa Shadrach (1995)

“Its easier to go from failure to success than it is from excuses to success.”

John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor

“Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb book The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

“People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve. (Bernard Mickey Wrangle, p 99)”

Tom Robbins book Still Life with Woodpecker

“A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.”

Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays

“When are we going to stop making excuses for the terrorists and saying that somebody is making them do it? No, these are simply evil people who want to kill.”

Condoleezza Rice (1954) American Republican politician; U.S. Secretary of State; political scientist