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Failure Quote of the Day: Learn how to fail intelligently

By Becky McCray

“Teach a highly educated person that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure in order to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.”
— Charles F. Kettering

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Becky McCray wearing long braids and a professional outfit smiles as she stands on a rural downtown street with twinkling lights in the background.
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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May 5, 2006 Filed Under: failure, success

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  1. Jean Warner says

    May 6, 2006 at 4:27 am

    Hi, Becky. I was looking for your email address today and couldn’t find it… so I Googled you and voila!
    Email me so I have your address.
    :-)
    I want to tell you about my new website and see if I can get a few women in Western Oklahoma to feed me some information for it. It is http://oklahomawomensnetwork.com but be gentle cause it is just a week or so old! I see you go to Africa. I have been to Kenya twice and will probably return next January. I am building a children’s library in Meru for deaf children. Read about it at Come2Kenya.blogspot.com. Well, sorry to use your blog this way. Feel free to delete this “comment”. Best regards,
    Jean Warner, Oklahoma City
    jeanwarner@cox.net

  2. Becky McCray says

    May 6, 2006 at 3:30 pm

    Glad you found me! I’ll email you today!

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