Dan Pena on Failure Quotes

"I’ve never seen a 'part-time' super successful, high-performance person. You've got to be all in, and that means being okay with failing."

"A failure in business is not a failure in character. Separate your ego from your balance sheet."

"Fear of failure is the greatest barrier to success. Most people are so afraid of looking stupid that they never start."

"You don't need more information; you need more guts. Guts to fail and try again."

"You must develop emotional resilience. When failure hits, you can't fold like a deck of cards."

"When you fail, don't look for someone to blame. Look in the mirror. That's your problem and your solution."

"I’ve been broke, I’ve been sued, and I’ve failed. But I never stayed down. That’s the difference."

"If you want to reach the stars, you have to be willing to crash and burn a few times on the way up."

"If you're not failing at least once a week, you're playing it too safe. Safety is for the weak."

"I have failed more times than most of you have even tried. That is why I am sitting here and you are sitting there."

"Failure is just another way of doing something that didn't work. Get over it and move on to the next deal."

"Get used to being uncomfortable. Failure is uncomfortable, but that's where the money is made."

"Show me a guy who hasn't failed and I'll show you a guy who hasn't done anything worth mentioning."

"Don't let the fear of what could go wrong keep you from what could go right."

"The world is full of people who could have been, should have been, but weren't because they were afraid to fail."

"You have to be prepared to fail, and fail big. If your failures aren't spectacular, you aren't playing a big enough game."

"The difference between a winner and a loser is that the winner gets up one more time than he falls down."

"High performance people fail fast, fail often, and fail forward. They don't sit around crying about it."

"Stop worrying about what your neighbors think. They're broke anyway. Their opinion of your failure doesn't pay your bills."

"Success is built on a mountain of failures. You just don't see the mountain because the success is at the top."

"Your dreams are on the other side of your failures. If you want the dream, you have to walk through the fire."

"People who are afraid of failure are essentially afraid of life. Life is messy and full of mistakes."

"Stop over-analyzing. Analysis paralysis is just a fancy name for the fear of failure."

"Quantum leaps require you to jump into the unknown. Sometimes you fall. You just have to learn how to land."

"I don't care about your excuses. If you failed, own it, fix it, and get back in the trenches."

"The road to success is paved with mistakes, blood, sweat, and tears. Mostly failure."

"Most people give up right before the breakthrough. They let one failure stop a lifetime of potential."

"Comfort is the enemy of greatness. If you're comfortable, you're not failing, and if you're not failing, you're not growing."

"The only real failure is the failure to act. Everything else is just a lesson in what not to do."

"Every failure is a data point. Collect enough data and you'll eventually find the formula for success."

"Don’t waste time on things you can’t change. If you failed, it's in the past. Focus on the next quantum leap."

"You can't learn to swim without getting wet, and you can't learn to win without losing a few times."

"You need to be thick-skinned. If a little failure hurts your feelings, you'll never make a hundred million."