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Failure: The Blog 
August 2018
- When This Executive Was Fired, He Took Charge
- Obeying The Speed Limit Has Never Been More Fun
- London Black Cabs Helped Uber Grow
- Bette Graham Created A Product To Fix Her Mistakes
- Flamin' Hot Cheetos Had An Interesting Start
July 2018
- Fear This Instead Of Failure
- Re-Releasing Songs Created Success
- A CEO's Purposeful Mistake
- The Tardy Student And The Unsolvable Problem
- Fixing Potholes Through Graffiti
June 2018
- A Surprising Mistake In The Oxford English Dictionary
- US Army Embraces Mistakes
- Blocking A Hymn
- Eddie Shore Was Truly A Tough Guy
- [Video] Elon Musk Didn't "Pivot" He Failed
May 2018
- 8 Examples of Mental Toughness Part 2
- Necessity Turned Accessory: Allen Iverson's Sleeve
- This Doctor Has Continued To Fail
- 8 Examples of Mental Toughness
- MIT Accidentally Creates New Smelting Process
April 2018
- Johnny Cash Quit Singing Lessons
- Cruise Control Came Out of Frustration
- Time Spent Gaming Pays Off In The Navy
- Rock Around The Clock Was a Commercial Failure
- Sigmund Freud Should Have Been Discouraged
March 2018
FORBES Under 30 Summit Tackles Failure
Surviving in this great big world of startups can feel like an insurmountable task. How is it possible to find success when so many people are vying for the top spot? FORBES Under 30 Summit tackled this very problem.
The fear of failure can stop you in your tracks. Too many “what ifs” can keep you in a rut. At the FORBES Under 30 Summit, Revel Systems CEO Lisa Falzone, Delivery Hero’s Nikita Fahrenholtz and Better Place founder Shai Agassi stepped up to discuss this issue. One response about the fear of failing from Lisa Falzone caught our eye.
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“I was not good at failure. I had to study to overcome that fear to start a company. It’s about being OK with failure and knowing you’ll make mistakes. But it’s also about how fast you recover. We’re growing at 200% each year, so there will be pain, but it’s about how agile we can be. I always look back to this quote from Theodore Roosevelt which basically says: “I’d rather stand in the arena and fail than be one of those cold timid souls that know neither victory or defeat.”
