Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. Average people look for ways of getting away with it; successful people look for ways of getting on with it. Reproduced with permission from the Jim Rohn Weekly E-zine – http://www.jimrohn.com New to…

Look constantly at your failures as a challenge. Take them apart in grizzly detail, for a short duration. Autopsy the corpse of your failure, and then build upon your strengths.– Chris Brogan New to SmallBizSurvival.com? Take the Guided Tour. Like what you see? Get our updates. Want more stories? Read our shared stories from all…

Make a friend of failure. You are certain to fail sometimes, and the higher your aspirations, the more frequent and significant that failure will be. People who don’t strive for anything glorious rarely fail; they take no risks and never aim beyond what is easily attainable. But if you treat failure as an enemy, it’s…

I heard these thoughts about failure on Twitter today, and wanted to share them with you, too. It may help to know that Twitter is a messaging system, with a 140 character limit on message size and rather informal. You’ll find me there, too. These are unedited, just as they appeared. I bolded a few…

“In business, you reward people for taking risks. When it doesn’t work out, you promote them because they were willing to try new things. If people come back and tell me they skied all day and never fell down, I tell them to try a different mountain.”Mike Bloomberg New to SmallBizSurvival.com? Take the Guided Tour….

“Big dreams mean big successes because even when you fail, you failed further ahead of where you’d be had you succeeded at something small!”Phil Gerbyshak This quote just came up last night on Liz Strauss’ Successful Blog Open Mic Nite. (Everyone is welcome, every Tuesday night!) New to SmallBizSurvival.com? Take the Guided Tour. Like what…

“Success is not just the crowning moment, the spiking of the ball in the end zone or the raising of the flag on the summit. It is the whole process of reaching for a goal and, sometimes, it begins with failure.”– Erik Weihenmayer I have written a whole series on failure, as part of my…