I'm not scared of anything in particular, but I am motivated by a fear of failure as opposed to a need to succeed.

I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.

My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.

Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.

Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.

Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance.

I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.

I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.

In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.

The attributes for entrepreneurs cut both ways. You need the ability to ignore inconvenient facts and see the world as it should be and not as it is. This inspires people to take huge leaps of faith. But this blindness to facts can be a liability, too. The characteristics that help entrepreneurs succeed can also lead to their failure.