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learn from mistakes until you succeed

By Becky McCray

“Take risks, and you’ll get the payoffs. Learn from your mistakes until you succeed. It’s that simple.” ~ Bobby Flay

Heard from Laura @Pistachio Fitton, via @dan_martell, on Twitter

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Becky McCray

Becky started Small Biz Survival in 2006 to share rural business and community building stories and ideas with other small town business people. She and her husband have a small cattle ranch and are lifelong entrepreneurs. Becky is an international speaker on small business and rural topics.

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December 27, 2008 Filed Under: failure, success

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  1. Kelly says

    December 27, 2008 at 1:38 pm

    Becky,

    I do a quotation for business once a week at my blog. Here’s one of my favorites:

    Success isn’t permanent, and failure isn’t fatal.
    —Mike Ditka

    Regards,

    Kelly

  2. Becky McCray says

    December 27, 2008 at 2:16 pm

    Thanks, Kelley. That one is terrific!

  3. solargroupies says

    December 27, 2008 at 2:47 pm

    Or, “We never learn from our successes, but we do learn from out failures.”

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