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I've become a professional failure - in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment.

Toby Young
British journalist

Toby Daniel Moorsom Young is a British social commentator. He is the Founder and Director of The Free Speech Union. He is an associate editor of The Spectator, and was formerly an Associate Editor at Quillette.
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America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.

Toby Young
British journalist

Toby Daniel Moorsom Young is a British social commentator. He is the Founder and Director of The Free Speech Union. He is an associate editor of The Spectator, and was formerly an Associate Editor at Quillette.
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In Britain, by contrast, we still think that class plays a part in determining a person's life chances, so we're less inclined to celebrate success and less inclined to condemn failure. The upshot is that it's much easier to be a failure in Britain than it is in America.

Toby Young
British journalist

Toby Daniel Moorsom Young is a British social commentator. He is the Founder and Director of The Free Speech Union. He is an associate editor of The Spectator, and was formerly an Associate Editor at Quillette.
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We judged that a sudden, disorderly failure of Bear would have brought with it unpredictable but severe consequences for the functioning of the broader financial system and the broader economy, with lower equity prices, further downward pressure on home values, and less access to credit for companies and households.

Timothy Geithner
American central banker and politician

Timothy Franz Geithner is a former American central banker who served as the 75th United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013. He was the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 2003 to 2009, following service in the Clinton administration. Since March 2014, he has served as president and managing director of Warburg Pincus, a private equity firm headquartered in New York City.
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I grew up playing sports. There is a clear line between success and failure.

Tiki Barber
American football player, running back

Atiim Kiambu "Tiki" Barber is an American former football running back who played for the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL) for ten seasons. He played college football for the University of Virginia. Barber was drafted by the Giants in the second round of the 1997 NFL Draft, and played his entire professional career for the team. Barber retired from the NFL at the end of the 2006 NFL postseason as the Giants' all-time rushing and reception leader. Barber was inducted into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame in 2011.
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One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

Thomas Sowell
American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author

Thomas Sowell is an American author, economist, political commentator, social theorist, and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University.
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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

Thomas Sowell
American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author

Thomas Sowell is an American author, economist, political commentator, social theorist, and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University.
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Our task is to become our best selves. One of God's greatest gifts to us is the joy of trying again, for no failure ever need be final.

Thomas S. Monson
president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (1927-2018)

Thomas Spencer Monson was an American religious leader, author, and the 16th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As president, he was considered by adherents of the religion to be a prophet, seer, and revelator. Monson's early career was as a manager at the Deseret News, a Utah newspaper owned by the LDS Church. He spent most of his life engaged in various church leadership positions and public service.
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You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.

Thomas John Watson, Sr.
American businessman; chairman and CEO of IBM

Thomas John Watson Sr. was an American businessman who served as the chairman and CEO of IBM. He oversaw the company's growth into an international force from 1914 to 1956. Watson developed IBM's management style and corporate culture from John Henry Patterson's training at NCR. He turned the company into a highly effective selling organization, based largely on punched card tabulating machines. A leading self-made industrialist, he was one of the richest men of his time and was called the world's greatest salesman when he died in 1956.
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If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

Thomas John Watson, Sr.
American businessman; chairman and CEO of IBM

Thomas John Watson Sr. was an American businessman who served as the chairman and CEO of IBM. He oversaw the company's growth into an international force from 1914 to 1956. Watson developed IBM's management style and corporate culture from John Henry Patterson's training at NCR. He turned the company into a highly effective selling organization, based largely on punched card tabulating machines. A leading self-made industrialist, he was one of the richest men of his time and was called the world's greatest salesman when he died in 1956.
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