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Your goal as an entrepreneur is to understand not only what your business does but the clients that it serves. If you really have your pulse on their needs and wants, then your 'absolute' failures are always going to have limits.
Michael Gerber
Needs
You
Business
Entrepreneur
Pulse
Only
Absolute
Failures
Understand
Clients
Does
Always
Limits
Goal
Going
Wants
Then
Really
Your
Serve
There have been albums I've recorded in the past that have had success, and then there have been ones I've had extreme faith in, and they ended up as commercial failures.
Michael McDonald
Success
Faith
Past
Extreme
Recorded
Had
Failures
Been
Up
Commercial
Ended
In The Past
Then
Albums
One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasn't attacked us, it's because he can't or because we've defeated him.
Michael Scheuer
Great
Intelligence
Intelligence Community
Community
Assume
Someone
Attacked
He
Counterterrorism
Failures
Him
Because
Intellectual
American
Us
Defeated
After 9/11, whatever the evidence of intelligence failures, many people still saw that attack as almost unimaginable, so brutal and brazen an assault.
Nancy Gibbs
People
Intelligence
Whatever
Saw
Evidence
Attack
Brutal
Almost
Failures
Still
Brazen
After
Unimaginable
Assault
Many
After multiple failures, when I tasted success, I was at my creative best - the 'jugaadu'-best.
Naveen Tewari
Success
Best
Creative
Failures
Tasted
After
Multiple
As long as you're clear about your goal, failures don't mean it's not going to work.
Naveen Tewari
Work
You
Long
About
Clear
Failures
Goal
Going
Mean
Your
Anything edgy won't see instant success. That's why one will have to learn to wait. You're going to see a lot of failures.
Naveen Tewari
Success
You
Wait
Will
See
Instant
Failures
Learn
Edgy
Lot
Going
Anything
Why
I always think about what's the difference between being tenacious and having an inability to learn from failures. The difference between the homeless guy who wanted to be a great painter and the guy who is a great painter could be anything.
Neil Burger
Great
Think
About
Guy
Having
Tenacious
Could
Between
Failures
Learn
Always
Difference
Being
Wanted
Anything
Inability
Who
Painter
Homeless
When runaway inflation and bank failures struck in Germany in the 1920s, the middle class was destroyed, which led directly to the rise of the Nazis.
Nick Clooney
Class
Inflation
Destroyed
Runaway
Rise
Struck
Directly
Failures
Led
Germany
Bank
Middle
Middle Class
Which
U.S. failures when it comes to the Gulf of Guinea are many: a failure to address the longstanding concerns of a government watchdog agency, a failure to effectively combat piracy despite an outlay of tens of millions of taxpayer dollars, and a failure to confront corrupt African leaders who enable piracy in the first place.
Nick Turse
Government
Failure
First
Taxpayer
Despite
Address
Guinea
Gulf
Corrupt
Tens
Tens Of Millions
Leaders
Combat
Failures
Concerns
First Place
Enable
Dollars
Effectively
Piracy
African
Place
Confront
Agency
Who
Many
Millions
I think the fact that people are even talking about the prospect of the Tories coming second is less about anything the Tories have done and more about the failures of Labour to set out, in any kind of coherent sense, what it's for anymore.
Nicola Sturgeon
People
Sense
Think
Out
Tories
Kind
About
More
Fact
Prospect
Failures
Talking
Coming
Labour
Any
Done
Anymore
Anything
Less
Even
Second
Coherent
Set
For all the failures of naval, air and army defense, the men who died at Pearl Harbor and in the Philippines would not die in vain.
Nigel Hamilton
Army
Philippines
Men
Vain
Defense
Air
Would
Failures
Die
Died
Harbor
Who
Naval
Pearl
Pearl Harbor
What we need to understand is, one, that there are market failures; and two, that there are things like asset bubbles and irrational exuberance. There are periods of booms, bubbles, and manias. These things, if left to themselves, can lead to crashes, to busts, to panics.
Nouriel Roubini
Market
Exuberance
Bubbles
Lead
Failures
Like
Periods
Understand
Left
Irrational
Crashes
Themselves
Asset
Things
Two
Need
Failures don't bother me much, nor do I let success go to my head.
Pankaj Tripathi
Success
Me
Bother
Head
Failures
Go
Nor
Much
Critics, at least generally, want to regard works of fiction as independent entities, whose virtues and failures must be reckoned apart from the circumstances of their creation, and even apart from the intentions of their creator.
Paul Di Filippo
Creation
Virtues
Reckoned
Circumstances
Independent
Must
Critics
Entities
Generally
Failures
Least
Intentions
Want
Fiction
Regard
Apart
Works
Even
Creator
Whose
Practically, systemic thinking can be used to identify problems, analyze their boundaries, design strategies and policy interventions, forecast and measure their expected impacts, implement them, and monitor and evaluate their successes and failures.
Paul Polman
Problems
Design
Thinking
Analyze
Systemic
Impacts
Implement
Boundaries
Failures
Identify
Policy
Practically
Forecast
Expected
Them
Successes
Used
Evaluate
Measure
Strategies
Monitor
You need people to encourage you along the way, both during your success and failures, because there will be both.
Payal Kadakia
Success
You
People
Will
Way
Both
Failures
Along
Because
Encourage
Your
Need
A serious dose of unemployment and a spate of bank failures can make the unelectable electable quite quickly.
Peter Hitchens
Failures
Make
Quickly
Unemployment
Quite
Bank
Dose
Serious
I've certainly learnt there's nothing more important than cash - cash flow issues are one of the biggest causes of company failures.
Peter Jones
Important
Nothing
Cash
More
Failures
Learnt
Causes
Issues
Than
Biggest
Certainly
Company
Flow
Some stars can make five or six failures in a row and continue to work - with a raise. I can't figure how that works. Maybe foreign sales or a smart agent.
Powers Boothe
Work
Smart
Stars
Some
Failures
Make
How
Foreign
Continue
Sales
Five
Six
Maybe
Agent
Figure
Works
Row
Raise
Our political system has been bankrupted by the failures of Congress to act in ways that give meaning to the struggles our constituents endure.
Raja Krishnamoorthi
Political
Congress
Our
Ways
System
Has-Been
Constituents
Give
Struggles
Failures
Been
Political System
Endure
Meaning
Act
A successful man is built of 1,000 failures.
Ray Allen
Man
Failures
Built
Successful
Successful Man
I've certainly had less practice at fatherhood than I have at acting, but in fatherhood, at least my failures are private!
Rich Sommer
Practice
Fatherhood
Had
Failures
Least
Private
Than
Acting
Certainly
Less
We should have a time to reflect on the accomplishments of the military, of their sacrifices, of their failures.
Richard Engel
Time
Reflect
Military
Sacrifices
Failures
Accomplishments
Should
The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that he or she is telling.
Richard Russo
Truth
Telling
Writer
He
He Or She
Failures
Likely
She
Any
Quite
Fiction
Fiction Writer
Story
Deepest
There's so many more failures than successes for actors. It's like a phobia, fear of cancellation.
Rick Hoffman
Fear
Phobia
More
Failures
Like
Than
Cancellation
Successes
Many
Actor
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