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如果能從失敗中學習，那麼失敗就是成功。

Failure is success if we learn from it.

邁爾康．富比士 Malcolm Forbes
NO.32 貫徹執行力

成功是個很糟的老師，它讓聰明的人以為自己不能失敗。

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

比爾．蓋茲 Bill Gates
NO.639 不被淘汰的能力

你若告訴我，有人從未失敗過，我就告訴你，那個人還不夠努力。

Show me someone who has never failed and I will show you someone who hasn't tried hard enough.

愛因斯坦 Albert Einstein
NO.33 敲開創意腦袋

當人們談到我的自由球時，他們的焦點是射門，但是當我想到自由球時，我想到的是所有的那些失敗。在我能夠做好之前，經歷了一大堆的失誤。

When people talk about my free kicks they focus on the goals, but when I think about free kicks I think about all those failures. It took tons of misses before I got it right.

大衛．貝克漢 David Beckham
NO.625 黑盒子思考

有學習障礙的孩子很辛苦，但有學習障礙的組織則足以致命。

Learning disabilities are tragic in children, but they are fatal in organizations.

彼得．聖吉 Peter Senge
NO.613 第五項修練

我跟我的精神科醫生說，所有人都討厭我。他說我想太多了──畢竟不是所有人都認識我。

I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous—everyone hasn't met me yet.

洛尼．丹吉菲爾德 Rodney Dangerfield
NO.938 失敗萬歲！

把失敗當作你的老師，而非你的終結者。

Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.

吉格．金克拉 Zig Ziglar
NO.938 失敗萬歲！

我最在乎的不是你是否曾經失敗，而是你是否甘於失敗。

My great concern is not whether you have failed but whether you are content with your failure.

林肯 Abraham Lincoln
NO.430 銷售大師哈維．麥凱教你如何變身超級業務員

外向者……以為有人作伴，特別是他們作伴，總是受到歡迎……。我常常試著跟外向者解釋，但從不覺得他們有誰真的懂了。他們會聽一下，然後又開始喋喋不休。

Extroverts … assume that company, especially their own, is always welcome… . As often as I have tried to explain the matter to extroverts, I have never sensed that any of them really understood. They listen for a moment and then go back to barking and yipping.

強納生．勞許 Jonathan Rauch
NO.626 天才如何找搭檔

勝敗之間的區別，往往在於是否放棄。

The difference between winning and losing is most often not quitting.

華特．迪士尼 Walt Disney
NO.944 大無畏領導

我們靠獲取維持生存，但靠付出開創人生。

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

邱吉爾 Sir Winston Churchill
NO.938 失敗萬歲！

失敗和發明是不可分割的孿生子。要發明你就必須實驗，然後如果你事先知道它有效，它就不是實驗。

Failure and invention are inseparable twins. To invent you have to experiment, and if you know in advance that it's going to work, it's not an experiment.

傑夫．貝佐斯 Jeff Bezos
NO.745 貝佐斯給股東的信

避免批評只有一個辦法：就是什麼都不做，什麼都不說，什麼都不是。

There is only one way to avoid criticism: Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

亞里斯多德 Aristotle
NO.938 失敗萬歲！

成功沒有祕訣，它是準備、努力和從失敗中學習的結果。

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

柯林．鮑威爾 Colin Powell
NO.959 比創新更重要的事

為了成功生產明天的產品，你必須了解過去成功和失敗的種種嘗試。

In order to successfully produce tomorrow's products, you must be aware of what has already succeeded and failed.

羅伯特．M．麥克麥司 Robert M. McMath
NO.959 比創新更重要的事