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-- Sir Edmund Hillary

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From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.


If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system.


If you've never failed you've never tried.


Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.


Past failures are guideposts to success.


People don't fail, they give up


Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.


Silicon Valley is a graveyard. Failure is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.


Success is the proper utilization of failure.


The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.


There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.


To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to kill a fly on his friend's forehead.

Friendship Quotes

When you fall, don't get up empty handed


When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.


You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.