Remember my whole series on failure? Maybe I started something! Two posts today from completely different sources contemplating these same ideas. (Odd that they are on the same day…) Mr. R (also known as Roman) is reading Jack Welch’s book, Winning, and thinking about How to act like a winner when you feel like a…

Listen to the audio version here. The hum of lawn mowers around here tells me that we are past spring cleaning and on to summer action. New projects are launching, and every day the pace of business is accelerating. Take time to reflect. Our recent series on failure was based on Larry Wilson’s quote, “I…

We end our failure quotes where we began: “I cannot fail; I can only learn and grow.”— Larry Wilson Change your mindset. Treat failure as necessary and extremely valuable. Don’t beat yourself up for false starts, near misses or even wide misses. Learn and grow. Thanks for following our feature on failure and success. We…

At a blog called The Scratching Post, a mistake lead to a blogosphere backlash, and the lessons learned ultimately lead to a terrific post, A Customer Satisfaction Study in the Blogosphere. The author digs up this failure quote: In his book, A Touch of Wonder, Arthur Gordon has a superb essay entitled “The Far Side…

“It is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs…

“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.”— Theodore Roosevelt small biz rural entrepreneurship success failure

“Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” This quote is variously attributed to Confucius, Ralph Waldo Emerson, or Oliver Goldsmith. If anyone has some concrete info on the original source, I would be glad to have it. small biz rural entrepreneurship success failure