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The biggest start-up successes - from Henry Ford to Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg - were pioneered by people from solidly middle-class backgrounds. These founders were not wealthy when they began. They were hungry for success, but knew they had a solid support system to fall back on if they failed.

~Eric Ries

Topics: Back Backgrounds Began Biggest Bill Bill Gates Failed Fall Ford Founders Gates Had Henry Hungry Knew Mark Mark Zuckerberg Middle-Class People Solid Start-Up Success Successes Support System Wealthy Were

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For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

~Ernest Hemingway

Topics: Again Always Attainment Been Beginning Beyond Book Done Each Failed Great He Luck Never New New Beginning Others Should Something Sometimes Succeed Then Tried Tries True Try Where Will Writer

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I'm a failed newspaper man myself.

~Ernie Harwell

Topics: Failed Man Myself Newspaper

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Fiction is about small ambition, small failed ambition, small disappointed hope.

~Ethan Canin

Topics: About Ambition Disappointed Failed Fiction Hope Small

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Is the button white or orange or green or yellow? Does it say 'sell', or 'sell now', or 'on sale' or 'for sale'? You test, you test, you test and most of the ideas you try fail and so I would argue I failed my way to success.

~Fabrice Grinda

Topics: Argue Button Does Fail Failed Green Ideas Most Now Orange Sale Say Sell Success Test Try Way White Would Yellow You

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I think once I had lived life, once I had failed enough in this lifetime and got back up a thousand times from failing, I really connected to the blues.

~Fantastic Negrito

Topics: Back Back Up Blues Connected Enough Failed Failing Got Had Life Lifetime Lived Once Really Think Thousand Thousand Times Times Up I Think

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I've failed once or twice real big, independent.

~Fat Joe

Topics: Big Failed Independent Once Real Twice

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Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.

~Federico Garcia Lorca

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According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts.

~Ferdinand Mount

Topics: According Action Against Bin Bush Chief Counterterrorism Despite Experts Failed Former He His House Intelligence Iraq Obsessed Repeated Richard Take Warnings White White House

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I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life!

~Francis Ford Coppola

Topics: Ambitious Been Better Fail Failed Fortunate Life Mundane My Life Overly Succeed Than Think Upward Very Way I Think

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